Ideas to Get You Ready for This Holiday Season

What’s On the Drink Menu This Holiday Season?

A good Holiday drink starts with pretty barware, festive décor and an attractive drink presentation. Asides from a good tasting recipe, your glass type and garnish finishes is what makes the drink you’re making be the talk of the party. Always remember to have fun and be creative!

When you're entertaining during the holidays it's a must to make sure you have some festive drink recipes on-hand. Warm, chilled, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages for all to enjoy and we’ve got 3 of them for you:

Rudolph’s Red Nose Cocktail

Ingredients (1 servings)

• 3 oz. Vodka
• 1/2 cup Cranberry Juice
• 1/2 cup Sparkling White Grape Juice
• Fresh cranberries for garnish

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients over ice
2. Garnish with several fresh cranberries threaded onto a pick of rosemary stem

Mulled Hot Apple Cider

Ingredients (16 servings)

• 1 gallon unfiltered apple juice or apple cider
• 1 large orange, cut into 1/4” slices
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 4 star anise
• 1 tablespoon whole cloves
• 1 tablespoon whole allspice
• 1” ginger root, sliced
• 1 1/2 cups spiced rum of your choice

Directions

1. Mix apple juice, orange slices, cinnamon sticks, star anise, whole cloves, whole allspice and ginger root.
2. Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce to simmer and cover for 2-3 hours.
3. Optional: Add rum to the apple cider mixture.
4. Remove fruit and spices from the pot.
5. Garnish with orange slices, cranberry, apple slices or spices.

Candied White Snow Cocktail

Ingredients (1 serving)

• Finely-crushed candy canes
• 1 1/2 oz. white chocolate liqueur
• 1 oz. blackstrap rum
• 1/2 oz. ginger liqueur
• Ice
• Water

Directions

1. Dip the rim of a glass in water, then in finely crushed candy canes.
2. Combine white chocolate liqueur, blackstrap rum, ginger liqueur, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously, then strain into prepared glass.
3. Serve garnished with a bite-size gingerbread cookie, if desired.

How to Celebrate With Your Loved Ones, Family & Friends!

Eat, drink and chat with your loved ones living close and far!

For some this Holiday Season still means celebrating with your loved ones through a screen! But that should not stop anything, a party can still be fun and everyone can eat, laugh and play games virtually through the power of technology!

Table of two for a party of MORE:

Fun Holiday Party Games Everyone Will Enjoy

These fun Christmas party games are guaranteed to put everyone in the Christmas spirit! The 5 BEST Christmas games for adults and kids, there’s really something for everyone and every type of party on this list! Check it out:

Stacking cups Christmas tree

Take 36 cups and stack them in a pyramid using only 1 hand in a minute! This is a challenge that will have everyone’s eyes on the TREE.

Candy Cane Relay

Here’s how to play this Christmas party game – Split the party into 2 teams. Hand each player a candy cane that they will hold in their mouth like a hook. Each team must pass another candy cane from person to person without using their hands, and only their ‘hooks’. The first team to pass the candy cane through every player wins!

Paper Plate Imagination

Here’s how to play this group game, works virtually too – Have your guests place a paper plate on their heads, give them a writing utensil, then draw a specific holiday scene as you tell them all about it. Best scene maker wins the best drawer award.

Ginger Bread Building Competition

Whether you split the family in groups or everyone goes solo, the mission is to have a time limit set to see who can build the best looking Ginger Bread House!

Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest

We’ve all heard of this type of sweater! It’s becoming a traditional festive attire for the holiday season. Normally you come dressed in the ugliest sweater in hopes that you win the contest amongst the crowd you are with. But here is the spin-off: Everyone has to make an ugly Christmas sweater within a time limit, at the beginning of the party, and wear it throughout the entire party! Person who made the ugliest or most creative, wins! The crowd does the voting.

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