The words warm and cocktail usually are a recipe for disaster, but not on frigid winter nights. Warm cocktails are designed to combine the depth of fall and winter flavors with your favorite spirit at a temperature that will warm you inside and out. Here are five delicious warm cocktails that you can enjoy until spring.
1. Tom and Jerry (via AllRecipes)
This drink is a classic, invented in the 1820s by Pierce Egan. If you like hard eggnog, this beverage is similar to that. It is made of eggs, confectioners’ sugar, brandy, milk, ground nutmeg. Around the holiday season is when this drink is most popular and it is usually served in a mug or a bowl. Tom and Jerry’s are most often found in the upper Midwestern region, specifically Wisconsin and Minnesota. If you can’t find a bar that serves one, you can purchase mix for it online from Sears.
2. Irish Coffee (via The Kitchn)
Irish coffee is a cocktail that is made of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and heavy cream. For over a century there were different cocktails similar to Irish coffee, but the classic most people are familiar with was invented in the early 1940s by Joe Sheridan. Traditionally this drink is served in an Irish coffee mug and has no garnish. When you drink this cocktail, it is customary to drink the coffee thru the cream instead of mixing them together.
3. Mexican Hot Chocolate (via Creative Culinary)
Most hot chocolate cocktail recipes use amaretto or liqueur, but this unique recipe calls for tequila and cayenne pepper. Some of the other ingredients include milk, cocoa powder, cane sugar, heavy whipping cream and cinnamon. This is a great cocktail that will definitely spice up a holiday party. To garnish this drink, you can top it with fresh whip cream and sprinkle cinnamon on top. For a stronger cinnamon taste you can add a cinnamon stick.
4. Hot Buttered Rum (via Chow)
Hot buttered from is one of the more simple warm cocktails which is why it’s perfect to make at home. The ingredients for this beverage are things you probably already have in your kitchen, including cloves, cinnamon stick, sugar, butter, and your dark rum of choice. To prepare the cocktail just combine the dry ingredients, add boiling water, then last add your butter and rum. Hot buttered rum can be served in a standard mug or coffee cup.
5. Mulled Wine (via Kitchen Confidante)
Serving warm spiced wine is a custom that dates back to the Roman Empire. The base of this cocktail is a full bodied red wine, like Merlot, Zinfandel, or Cabernet Sauvignon. Once you heat the wine (don’t let it boil) you’ll add ingredients like apple juice, clementine, lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and cloves. There are dozens of variations of mulled wine, even this white wine version from Martha Stewart. Mulled wine can be saved overnight, just remove the spices are fruit, refrigerate it, and then reheat it.
I love mulled wine-although oddly enough sometimes in cold weather I really crave an ice cold vodka martini with a good amount of vermouth. but maybe it is just the high level of alcohol in the vodka that warms me:)
I like coffee with Bailey’s mmmmmm.
Thanks so much for including my Mexican hot chocolate drink. It’s a surprise; so many think citrus and tequila that it just sounds strange but it’s amazing. Want one now even! Thanks again…Barb
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