31 Festive Holiday Cocktails To Try This Year

Eierpunsch - or German egg punch - is a classic holiday cocktail in Europe. Made from egg yolks, sugar, and white wine, it's a smooth and creamy cocktail that is kind of like egg nog but different and unique in its own right!

The Spritz Christmas Cocktail is a fizzy, fun and delicious Christmas cocktail made with prosecco, rhubarb and ginger gin and cranberry juice.

This simple cocktail is perfect for serving at holiday parties or for enjoying at weekends when it’s time to chill. It is the best time of the year, after all!

Delightfully boozy and infused with aromatic spices, this wassail recipe is both delicious and easy to make. Notes of ginger, cinnamon, and cloves blend with sweet apples for a simple and warming wintertime drink.

This cranberry mimosa drink is a festive holiday beverage. Not only is this a perfect holiday drink for your holiday brunch, but it can also be served at cocktail parties, to ring in the New Year, or for any other holiday celebration you may have.

This decadent Baileys White Russian Cocktail is the perfect after-dinner drink to sip on this holiday season. Easy to make, creamy, and delicious it's like having your dessert in a glass!

The Gingerbread Moscow Mule is a delicious holiday cocktail made with just 4 simple ingredients. This is such a great spin on a classic Moscow mule cocktail - just add in gingerbread simple syrup to add the "holiday" part!

The holiday season deserves a Merry Mistletoe Cocktail! This delicious cocktail is almost a milkshake - but not quite! You’ll love the mint flavor which is perfect for Christmas.

This red wine sangria recipe is perfect for your Christmas parties! Made with brandy, pomegranate juice, fresh fruits and spices, it’s a bit like a cold mulled wine... but better!

This Cranberry Old Fashioned is a delicious holiday twist on the classic cocktail! It's a great way to incorporate the flavors and colors of the holidays into a delicious cocktail. Don't forget the cranberries!

These sparkling pomegranate punch cocktails are perfectly merry and bright for the holidays. They fit right into the holiday color scheme and are also totally delicious!

This simple yet spectacular Gold Shimmery Champagne Cocktail is perfect for your holiday and New Year celebrations! With sweet, fruity, floral elderflower champagne flavors and shimmery gold luster swirls, this cocktail is a party on its own!

A Christmas White Russian is a fun, festive holiday drink inspired by the classic three-ingredient cocktail. It is perfect for the holidays because it features the seasonal favorite, eggnog, instead of cream!

This pumpkin spice martini is the perfect cold weather cocktail. It has a velvety texture, is made with pumpkin and warm spices - and is even vegan should that be important to you as a holiday sipper!

The Mistletoe Kiss is a holiday drink for the ages with vodka, lemon juice, and a special and insanely easy simple syrup that ties the whole drink together. This will be Santa's favorite drink - and it may become yours, too!

Serve up this Juniper Champagne Cocktail at your New Year’s Eve party as a fun alternative to having just the same old plain champagne drinks at midnight this year.

This champagne cocktail recipe is sweetened with simple syrup and infused with juniper berries.

This Cranberry Rosemary Shrub Cocktail is the perfect Holiday cocktail! A homemade cranberry shrub with hints of black pepper, rosemary, and cinnamon is combined with bourbon and seltzer for a festive and colorful drink.

For a holiday friendly cocktail featuring pisco brandy, fresh cranberry juice and syrup, this delicious cocktail is topped with a classic egg white foam!

This slow cooker mulled wine is the ultimate holiday cocktail. Red wine is heated with warming spices like cloves, cinnamon, and star anise to create a comforting Christmas drink that is perfect for a crowd! It'll be similar to what you'd find at a Christmas market!

This Puerto Rican eggnog is sure to be the hit of your next party. Flavored with coconut milk, this cocktail will make you feel like you’re on a tropical island during the holidays!

Glögg is a Swedish variation of mulled wine best served hot and shared with some great company on a cold Christmas night.

The fragrant, warm spices will waft through your house as you prepare this holiday cocktail. If you are looking for a new addition to your holiday traditions, try this recipe.

Pomegranate Bourbon Punch is a festive cocktail for the holiday season. Our Bourbon punch combines two juices, Bourbon and a hint of vanilla topped off with bubbly ginger ale, orange slices, and pomegranate arils.

Why buy Baileys when it can be made at home? Christmas spiced homemade Baileys is a perfect last-minute gift, quick to make but not quick to forget. Oh, and it's easy to drink, too!

With four simple ingredients this apple cider cable car cocktail will become your new favorite holiday drink. Let the fragrant aromas of apple and rum fill your house - and then your belly!

Celebrate the holidays with this creamy, decadently rich Eggnog Martini. Made from just three ingredients & a few pinches of spice, this delicious cocktail is perfect for the Christmas season.

What better way to bring on the good cheer than with a Christmas cocktail named after the jolly old elf himself? With its coconut rim and bright red color, this Santa's Hat Christmas Cocktail will most certainly bring on the holiday cheer!

This Milk Punch is luxurious, creamy, and a taste of history. If you like trying classic cocktails, this is a great Fall or Winter cocktail to try and it is straight from the illustrious Professor Jerry Thomas.

A festive time of year calls for a festive cocktail, right? Donner and Blitzen: A Ginger Brandy Cocktail makes a lovely addition to your holiday cocktail party.

Just combine ginger simple syrup, brandy, pomegranate molasses, and pomegranate juice with ice in your cocktail shaker and top off with ginger beer and a few shakes of orange bitters. Garnish with an orange slice. Bellissimo!

This is a twist on the classic gin and tonic. A dash of elderflower liqueur, sloe gin & Campari team up with gin & tonic to create a drink with a pretty blush and a hint of fruit.

Here's an easy citrus holiday punch made with grapefruit, oranges, Prosecco, gin, and some hard seltzer! It’s perfect for a holiday party and takes 10 minutes to make!

Need an easy and festive cocktail for holiday celebrations? Fix a pitcher of this cranberry and apple sangria. It's packed with colorful and seasonal ingredients like fruity red wine, fragrant apple cider, tart cranberry juice, fresh apples and cranberries, citrus, and cinnamon + a bit of booze for a kick.

How about a festive holiday cocktail with a long history? First poured in a Paris bar in 1915, the French 75 is a delicious mix of Champagne, gin, lemon juice and sugar. It'll be love at first sip!