Thanksgiving co*cktail Recipes That You'll Be Thankful For (2024)

Ingredients

.5 oz Cointreau
1 oz vodka
.5 oz fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon cranberry sauce
Sparkling wine to finish

Instructions

Add all ingredients except sparkling wine into shaker. Add ice and shake. Fine strain into coupe glass. Finish with sparkling wine and garnish with sage leaf and orange wheel, if desired.

Ingredients

2 oz Alibi Gin
.25 oz lemon juice
Agave nectar, to taste
Sparkling apple cider
Garnished with thyme and apple

Instructions

Pour gin in shaker, add lemon juice and agave nectar, shake, and then pour into a high ball glass and top with sparkling cider. Garnish with fresh thyme and an apple slice.

From The Ebbitt Room at the Virginia Hotel in Cape May, NJ

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Ingredients

1.5 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz spiced rum
1 oz Domaine de Canton
2 tbsp pumpkin puree
2 tbsp white sugar
1 tsp ground pumpkin pie spice
1 cup marshmallow cream or whipped cream, for garnish

Instructions

Add vodka, rum, Domaine de Canton & pumpkin puree into a co*cktail shaker with ice. Shake until well combined. Rim a martini glass with mixed sugar & pumpkin pie spice. Double strain the martini into the glass and top with marshmallow cream or whipped cream.

From Andrea Correale of Elegant Affairs

Ingredients

2 oz Nelson’s Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey
.75 oz lemon juice
.5 oz honey simple (2:1 ratio raw honey to water)
.25 oz Allspice Dram1 dash chocolate bitters

Instructions

Add all ingredients to a co*cktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled and strain into a chilled coupe. Express the oils from a lemon peel over the top of the drink and discard the peel.

Ingredients

4 oz vodka
.25 cup cranberry juice
.5 cup sparkling apple juice
2 7.5-oz bottles Q Ginger Beer
fresh cranberries for garnish

Instructions

Fill two large glasses with ice. Add the vodka and cranberry juice. Add the sparkling apple juice and then fill the rest of the way with the ginger beer. Stir gently to combine and serve immediately.

From Heather Christo

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Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup coarsely grated butternut squash, peeled
2 oz dark rum
1 oz fresh lime juice

Instructions

Combine sugar with 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to simmer to dissolve sugar. Add the squash and simmer until tender but not falling apart, 10-15 minutes. Let cool and strain through a fine mesh strainer. Reserve and refrigerate squash and syrup separately. Chill at least 1 hour. To make co*cktail, combine 1 oz butternut squash syrup with rum and lim juice in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass and garnish with a dollop of reserved squash.

From Felidia in NYC

Welcome guests with a brunch classic with a Thanksgiving twist, because bubbles are always the right answer.

Get the recipe at Delish

Ingredients

1.75 oz Carriage House Apple Brandy
1 oz apple cider
1 oz fresh lemon juice
.75 oz egg whites
.5 oz honey
1 whole nutmeg

Instructions

Combine apple brandy, fresh lemon juice, egg whites, honey and apple cider in a shaker tin. Shake vigorously for 20 seconds to froth the egg whites. Add ice and shake vigorously for another 20 seconds. Double-strain into a coupe glass. Make sure you have at least a quarter inch of froth on top. Microplane fresh nutmeg on half of foam.

From Kindred Restaurant in Davidson, North Carolina

Ingredients

1.5 oz Hendrick’s Gin
.75 oz Lemon Juice
.75 oz Apple Juice or Apple Cider
Top with Ginger Beer

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a highball glass filled with cubed ice and stir. Garnish with apple slices and nutmeg.

By Vance Henderson.

Ingredients

1.5 oz Diplomático Mantuano Rum
3 oz ginger ale
Dash of cocoa bitters (optional)
Cranberries, for garnish
Rosemary, for garnish

Instructions

Fill a co*cktail shaker with ice. Pour in the rum, ginger ale and bitters. Shake until well chilled. Strain into rocks glass. Garnish with fresh rosemary and cranberries.

Ingredients

2 oz Knob Creek Bourbon
1 bar spoon allspice dram
.25 oz rich demerara syrup*
1 dash Mole bitters
Zest of lemon
Zest of orange
Star anise (for garnish)

Instructions

Add all ingredients into a double rocks glass. Add a large cube of ice and stir lightly until drink is slightly chilled. Zest a lemon peel and an orange peel over top and discard both. Garnish with a star anise on top of the ice cube.

*Demerara sugar syrup: Add 10 oz of demerara sugar with 5 oz of water into a small saucepan. Bring to a boil or until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from the stovetop and let cool.

Ingredients

2 oz Código 1530 Blanco
.75 oz maple syrup
1 oz lemon juice
4 oz ginger beer

Instructions

Shake blanco, maple syrup, and lemon juice and strain into a glass with fresh ice. Fill with ginger beer.

Ingredients

1.5 oz dark rum
1 oz pumpkin spice syrup
.5 oz fresh lime juice
2 oz Campo Viejo Cava

Instructions

Mix all ingredients besides cava in shaker, shake and strain into a martini glass. Top with cava and garnish.

Ingredients

2 oz Naked Turtle White Rum
1 oz Grand Mariner
.5 oz Sage-infused syrup*
.5 oz lemon juice
Splash of club soda

Instructions

Combine all ingredients and shake with ice. Serve and garnish with sage and figs.

*Sage-infused syrup: In a small saucepan, combine 6-10 sage sprigs, 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup water. Over medium-high heat, bring to a high simmer. Frequently stir to help dissolve sugar. Once the mixture simmers and the sugar dissolves, turn off heat, allow the sage to steep for at least 30 minutes and strain.

By Vincent Albin of North Fork in NYC.

Ingredients

1.5 oz Bombay Sapphire
.5 oz beet juice
.5 oz cranberry juice
.5 oz lemon juice
1 oz St Germain Elderflower Liqueur

Instructions

Mix all ingredients in a shaker tin and shake with ice. Pour over fresh ice in a rocks glass or serve up in a martini glass.

Ingredients

26 oz Nolet's Silver Gin
13 oz apple juice or cider
6.5 oz lime juice
6.5 oz honey
2 limes
Apples (Green or Red)

Instructions

Mix all ingredients in an infusion jar or punch bowl and stir thoroughly to dissolve honey. Slice limes into wheels and add to jar. Serve over ice, garnished with lime, apple slices or matchsticks, cinnamon sticks and or thyme.

Ingredients

2 oz Botanist Gin
.5 oz simple syrup
.5 oz lemon juice
1 heaping bar spoon of cranberry sauce
Tonic
Lemon wheel

Instructions

In a co*cktail shaker, combine the gin, simple syrup, lemon juice, and cranberry sauce. Shake with ice for about ten seconds, then strain into a tall glass with ice. Stir in tonic water and garnish with a lemon wheel.

From JIMMY at the James in New York City

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Ingredients

1 oz Cointreau
2 oz Tequila
.75 oz lime juice
2 Tbsp pumpkin puree
1 Tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 Tbsp honey

Instructions

Add all ingredients to a shaker, add ice and shake. Fine strain over ice into glass. Finish with a cinnamon stick

Ingredients

1.5 oz cognac
.5 oz cinnamon syrup
1 large spoonful of apple butter or apple syrup

Instructions

Shake ingredients before pouring into a sophisticated coupe glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

From Celeste in Chicago, IL

Skip the dessert table and finish off your meal with this sweet and boozy treat.

Get the recipe at Delish