New Year's Eve cocktails recipes
Wow party guests with your cocktail menu this New Year's Eve. Whether you like them creamy, long or shaken not stirred, there's a cocktail for every taste.
Mulled Wine Cocktail
The perfect party drink, as it can be made well ahead, then brought out of the fridge as guests arrive – or serve it hot for a traditional winter warmer.
Ingredients
100g/4oz light muscovado sugar
1star anise
1 cinnamon stick
4 cloves
150ml water
1 lemon
2 clementines
150ml Cointreau
750ml/ 1¼pint bottle light red wine, such as Beaujolais
Twist of orange zest and a star anise, to serve
Method
Put 100g light muscovado sugar in a pan with 1 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, 4 cloves and 150ml water. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar.
Simmer for 2 mins, then pour into a large jug and leave to cool. Add 1 lemon and 2 clementines, both thinly sliced, to the jug along with 150ml Cointreau and a 750ml bottle light red wine, such as a Beaujolais. Stir well, then cover and chill for at least 2 hrs or overnight if you can. stirring to dissolve the sugar.
Serve over chilled ice.
Rumberry Punch
Big jugs of cocktails are great for a party, let guests help themselves to this cranberry and dark rum drink.
Ingredients
350ml dark rum
1l cranberry juice
1l ginger ale
Method
Chill the rum, juice and ginger ale until cold. Then pour into a punch bowl or divide into jugs. Serve over cold ice.
Ginn Flourish Drink Recipe
Ingredients
2 ounces blackcurrant soda (or 1 ounce club soda and one ounce blackcurrant syrup)
1 1/2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce Patron Citronge
Method
Chill your ingredients beforehand. Pour the blackcurrant soda first first, then the gin, then the Citronge.
Stir and serve.
