Craft Gin Club’s Christmas Cocktail
This super-easy cocktail is a staple of every Craft Gin Club Christmas party! If you have a bottle of sherry knocking about and aren’t sure what to do with it, this is the Christmas cracker you’ve been waiting for!
Ingredients
- 35ml gin
- 15ml sweet sherry
- 50ml cranberry juice
- Twist of orange peel, to garnish
Method
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add all your ingredients. Shake and then strain into a cocktail coupe. Garnish with a twist of orange peel and serve.
Blood Orange Sour
Blood oranges are in season through the winter, and this cocktail makes marvellous use of them. With their beautiful, jewel-like hue, they’ll look perfect served at any festive gathering.
Ingredients
- 30ml gin
- 1 tbsp triple sec
- 25ml fresh blood orange juice
- 1tsp fresh lemon juice
- Slice of blood orange, to garnish
Method
Combine your ingredients in a cocktail shaker packed with ice. Shake and then strain into a Martini glass or cocktail coupe. Garnish with blood orange slice to serve.
Mince Pie Martini
We’re mince-pie obsessed here at Craft Gin Club, and this glimmering Martini always makes an appearance at our festive parties!
Ingredients
- 25ml gin or sloe gin
- 2 teaspoons mincemeat syrup (see below)
- Sparkling white wine, to top up
- Orange peel, to garnish
FOR THE MINCEMEAT SYRUP
- 100g golden caster sugar
- 100ml water
- 50g mincemeat
Method
Combine all the ingredients for the mincemeat syrup in a saucepan and gently simmer until the mixture has reduced to a syrupy consistency. Allow to cool, then straight into an airtight container. Keep in the fridge until needed.
Combine the gin or sloe gin and 2 teaspoons of the mincemeat syrup in a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake hard. Strain into a cocktail coupe or Martini glass, top up with sparkling wine and garnish with orange peel.
Yuletide Flip
Creamy, indulgent and completely delicious, this Christmassy creation is the perfect thing to sip as you deck your tree by the light of a roaring fire.
Ingredients
- 20ml gin
- 1 tbsp triple sec
- 1 tbsp Irish cream liqueur
- 1 whole egg
- Twist of orange peel, to garnish
Method
Shake all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker, or blend in a blender with 2 ice cubes. Then serve over ice, with a twist of orange peel.
Sloe Gin Fizz
A festive twist on a classic Gin Fizz, this is the perfect aperitif before Christmas lunch. For a less boozy version, substitute the sparkling wine for soda water.
Ingredients
- 30ml sloe gin
- 2 tsp simple syrup
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 egg white
- Sparkling wine to top up
Method
Add your sloe gin, simple syrup, lemon juice and egg white if using (it will create a beautiful white foam on the top of your cocktail) to a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for 30 seconds, then fill with ice and shake again. Strain into a flute or wine glass, then top up with sparkling wine.