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Seven Christmas cocktails for you to try this festive season

Whether you're hosting your own Christmas parties or want to make drinks as part of the big day Bacardi has a list of festive cocktails you can create at home. Drinks range from a Christmas twist on a Pina Colada to a Dill flavoured Martini.

Grey Goose Spiced Orange Martini

Ingredients :

50ml Grey Goose Vodka

20ml White port

10ml Cointreau

Recipe :

Garnished with thin slice orange, grated cinnamon and star anise

Grey Goose Dundas Dirty Martini Cocktail

Ingredients :

50ml Grey Goose

20ml Martini Dry Vermouth

5ml Olive Brine

1 Dill sprig to garnish

Recipe :

Add ingredients to a mixing glass. Add a handful of ice. Stir deliberately and strain into a chilled martini cocktail glass.

Add a large sprig dill and let sit for 5-15 minutes.

Ingredients :

50ml BACARDÍ Spiced

10ml Fresh Lime Juice

10ml Gingerbread Syrup (Monin*)

20ml Amaretto Liqueur

30ml Coco Lopez (Cream of Coconut)

40ml Pineapple Juice

Recipe :

Add all ingredients into shaker. Shake with cubes ice. Strain and serve long over cubed ice.

Alternatively add all ingredients to blender/nutri bullet and blitz with a small scoop of ice until smooth. Pour and enjoy. Pineapple wedge and a cherry to garnish.

Bacardi Rum Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients :

200ml BACARDÍ Ocho

100ml Hot Water

2 Cinnamon Sticks

2 Star Anise

1 Heaped tbsp Soft Brown Sugar

5 Small Knobs of Butter

Lemon Peel

Recipe :

Add all the ingredients a medium size saucepan

On a medium heat, stir continually until the sugar has dissolved

Gently heat a pouring vessel (glass jug) with hot water.

When the sugar has dissolved, simmer for 5/10mins to infuse all the flavours. After 10 mins, discard hot water from jug and decant rum to the jug. Cinnamon stick and lemon twist to garnish.

St~Germain Royale

Ingredients :

¾ oz ST~GERMAIN

5-6 oz Champagne

Blackberry to garnish

Recipe :

Pour ST~GERMAIN into a chilled Champagne glass (from freezer).

Top with Champagne.

Give the drink a quick stir.

Garnish with a blackberry by placing on the rim of the glass.

St~Germain Winter Spritz

Ingredients :

40 ml ST~GERMAIN

60ml Blood orange soda

60ml Sparkling wine

Recipe :

Pour St‑Germain over ice into your glass.

Top with sparkling wine and soda water.

Give the drink a good stir.

Gently twist a lemon peel on top of your drink and add grated cinnamon, orange and edible flowers (optional).

Tails Espresso Martini

Ingredients :

125ml Expresso Martini Tails

ICE

Recipe :

Pour 125ml of Tails Espresso Martini into a shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain into glass with coffee beans to garnish.

Tails Whiskey Sour Christmas Cocktail (Bacardi)

Tails Whiskey Sour

Ingredients :

125ml Whiskey Sour Tails

ICE

Recipe :

Pour 125ml of Tails Whisky Sour into a shaker filled with ice, shake well and strain into glass. Garnish with lemon zest.

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