3 Fall cocktail recipes

Greet family and guests with one or all three of these festive and simple fall-inspired cocktails!

Pear and nutmeg, apples, cinnamon, sugar… cranberry, ginger and beer! These 3 fall-inspired cocktails bring it all and will leave your guests feeling warm and welcomed!

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces vodka
• 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 3/4 ounce elderflower liqueur
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 6 chunks Bartlett pear
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg (plus more for garnish)
• Sliced small pear for garnish

Directions:

1. Muddle pear and nutmeg together until well mashed.
2. Add all other ingredients and shake vigorously over ice for 30 seconds. Fine strain into an ice-filled rocks glass.
3. Garnish with a thin slice of pear dusted with ground nutmeg.

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon brown sugar (plus a bit more for glass rims)
• 3 ounces apple cider
• 3 ounces Champagne
• 1-1/2 ounces bourbon
• Cinnamon and sugar mixture
• Sliced apple for garnish

Directions:

1. Dip Champagne glass rims in bourbon and then into a mixture of a bit of brown sugar, cinnamon and sugar.
2. Mix all the drink ingredients together and pour into Champagne glass.
3. Garnish with sliced apples.

Serves 1

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces 100 percent cranberry juice
• 2 ounces spiced rum
• 4 ounces spicy ginger beer (try to find Blenheim’s or Reed’s)
• Candied ginger pieces for garnish

Directions:

1. In a rocks glass filled with ice, combine cranberry juice and rum.
2. Top with ginger beer.
3. Garnish with candied ginger on a cocktail pick, toothpick or place on the side of the glass.

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