The New Year parties are revving up but some hosts and attendees are looking for last minute drink and appetizer recipes.
Check out some below.
Drinks
This recipe, which serves about 50 people, features a bunch of fruit along with alcohol. Peel rinds from three oranges and about a dozen lemons, and combine the rinds with two cups honey and one cup hot water. Stir and set aside.
Juice the peeled lemons, and any additional lemons needed to yield three cups. Mix with two 750-milliliter bottles of blended Scotch whisky, and one similarly sized bottle of gin-based fruit cup, such as Pimms.
Strain the original mixture that has honey, and discard the rinds. Combine with the other liquid.
Right before serving, add about four cups of ginger ale or ginger beer. Garnish with grated nutmeg, lemon wheels, fresh berries, and orange wheel halves.
This recipe, which serves about six people, starts off with pouring a quart of water into a saucepan and bringing to a boil. Remove from heat and toss in three orange spice tea bags. Cover and steep for five minutes.
Remove the tea bags and add 1/2 cup brown sugar, two cups apple cider, and 1 1/2 cups rum, along with two cinnamon sticks. Heat to steam.
Ladle the cider into six mugs and add 1/2 teaspoon butter to each. Add a cinnamon stick to each cup.
This recipe makes one cocktail but can be doubled or expanded even more for more people.
Combine 1 1/2 ounces of Ciroc Amaretto Vodka, one ounce St. Germain, one ounce Cherry Heering, 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice, and one ounce apple-cinnamon simple syrup in a cocktail shaker, and shake vigorously. To make the syrup, cut up four apples, boil in 2 1/2 cups of water, add two cinnamon sticks and stir for 0 minutes, then add 2 1/2 cups of sugar. Drain and double strain the syrup after five minutes over medium heat.
Double strain into a chilled wine glass rimmed with gold flake and sugar. Top with Champagne.
4. Grandpa Harry’s Holiday Punch
This recipe serves about 15 people. Put one 750 milliliter bottle of Burgandy wine in a punch bowl. Dissolve one cup sugar.
Stir in two 750 milliliter bottles of chilled champagne.
Stir in eight fluid ounces of brandy, and one quart of club soda.
5. Elit Midnight Millionaire Cocktail
This recipe makes one cocktail. Pour one ounce of Stoli Elit Vodka into a Champagne flute.
Fill the rest with Perrier Jouët Fleur de Champagne.
Drop a single raspberry in the glass for a garnish.
