Hot-chocolate is probably more what you will be leaning towards this weekend, but if you’re going to a braai or just feel like enjoying a drink, these winter cocktails are not only super tasty, but they’ll also help to warm you up from the inside.
Winter cocktail recipes
Salted caramel applepie-tini
Apple season is in full swing, and now that you’ve had your Apple Pie last weekend, in celebration of Apple Pie Day, it’s time to try something different with your apples.
Ingredients
- 1 egg white
- 45ml gin
- 85ml fresh apple juice
- 1 teaspoon salted caramel syrup
- 1 ½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Pinch of cinnamon
- Ice cubes
- 4 slices of a DuToit apple
Method
- Add all of the ingredients together and stir vigorously for about 25 seconds. This will help everything merge with the egg white.
- Add about 5 ice blocks and give it another stir for at least 30 seconds.
- Strain the cocktail into a pretty glass and garnish it with very thinly sliced fresh apple on a cocktail stick and a pinch of cinnamon.
*This recipe is courtesy of Dutoit Agri and was created by Angie Batis Durrant.
Winter whiskey sour
If you don’t enjoy drinking whiskey neat, this cocktail is a great way to have a drink when your partner enjoys his whiskey on the rocks watching the sunset.
Ingredients
- Crushed ice
- 50ml bourbon
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp fresh orange juice
- ½ tbsp sugar syrup
- 2 slices of oranges
Method
Fill each glass with crushed ice. Put the bourbon into a cocktail shaker with the lemon juice, orange juice and sugar syrup. Shake and strain into each glass, and serve with an orange slice and short straws.
*This recipe was found on www.bbcgoodfood.com.
Bombay Sapphire Red Snapper
This flavourful winter cocktail recipe draws on exotic spices and botanicals inherent within BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin. This rich and savoury cocktail awakens the senses and can be spiced according to your personal taste.
Ingredients
- 50ml BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin
- 100ml Tomato juice
- 2 dashes hot sauce
- 1 Teaspoon Horseradish (to taste)
- 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce (to taste)
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of Cayenne pepper
- 2 Fresh lemon wedges
- 1 Celery Stalk
- 1 Olive
- 1 cocktail onion
Method
- In a long highball glass, add the gin and your tomato juice.
- Squeeze in (and then discard) a fresh wedge of lemon and season with hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper according to your taste.
- Fill your glass with cubed ice and stir slowly to integrate the ingredients and flavours.
- Finish the drink by adding a wonderful garnish: a celery stalk, an olive, a cocktail onion, and a fresh wedge of lemon.
*This recipe is courtesy of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE.
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