Batched Holiday Craft Cocktails for Parties: This is Not Your Grandma's Punch
These punch recipes I will share are not your gram's punch, nostalgic as it is, these are craft cocktail recipes that are adjusted to serve a crowd and smartly contain ingredients that work well when sitting with ice over a few hours during a party, and even sitting batched in the fridge hours before, so that you can prep food and light candles instead of worrying about the drinks.
Paloma: the Cocktail Recipe
Mexico's National Cocktail is made extra delicious when you make your own grapefruit soda with fresh grapefruit juice and a Simple Goodness Syrup. In this Paloma recipe you can mix in Berry Sage, Rhubarb Vanilla or Orange Vanilla syrup for a tart-sweet-salty cocktail perfect for pairing with other bold dishes.
Crafting Homemade Sodas and Seltzers: The DIY Healthier Soda Recipe You Need
In recent years, homemade sodas and DIY seltzer recipes are everywhere and for good reason. Not only do they allow you to create delicious, bubbly beverages tailored to your taste, but they also come with a host of benefits that traditional soda brands simply can’t match. Let’s dive into the process of making seltzer at home, explore the benefits of using a soda maker, and highlight the delicious flavors of handcrafted drink syrups.
Bourbon or Vodka Lemonade Cocktail with Simple Syrup
THIS SPIKED LEMONADE RECIPE IS AS SIMPLE AS THEY COME, WITH FRESH LEMON JUICE, WATER, SIMPLE GOODNESS SYRUP AND ICE.
You can make it with vodka or bourbon, with some flavors like Blueberry Lavender lending themselves much better to lightly colored spirits and others, like Marionberry Mint, nicely offsetting a robust bourbon.
Cucumber, Lemon, and Herb Nonalcoholic Cocktail
If you like nonalcoholic drinks that are more on the refreshing and tart side than sweet, and free of carbonation, you're going to need to mix up one of these right away. In a Pinterest and TikTok world its easy to think that a good nonalcoholic mocktail needs to be complicated or an exotic flavor combination but guess what? They don't.