Holiday Cocktail Hour at Home

By Ann Walczak / Photography By | Last Updated October 27, 2020
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Left to right: Spiced Pear Flip, Proper Grasshopper, Mulled Toddy, Autumn in Copenhagen

Associate Editor, Ann Walczak is the punctuation queen around here. Though she's passionate about seeking out a missing Oxford comma, she's even more passionate about delicious cocktails made with quality ingredients. We asked her to come up with some for the holidays and she outdid herself. Armed with a home bar of more than 65 bottles, she tinkered and mixed until she got the cocktails featured here. Go ahead - expand your home bar and try your hand at one of these. After all, cocktail hour may be at home for awhile. -- Jill Melton

The holidays and booze go together like snow and sleds. Whether you’re celebrating, finally taking some much-needed time to relax, or your horrible Aunt Millie is insisting on a zoom call, pour yourself something special. You deserve it.

 

Spiced Pear Flip

Perhaps you’re like my dad and you look forward to your carton of eggnog every year. To that, I say – live your best life. But if you’re like me and the eggnog situation is homemade or bust,...

Proper Grasshopper

Ah, the Grasshopper. You may know this cocktail as the bright green beacon in a glass, but that isn’t always the case. Invented in 1918 in the French Quarter of New Orleans and made popular...

Mulled Toddy

A couple things about me: I tend to make my hot toddys with black tea, and I’m half German, which means hot mulled wine, or glühwein, has made an appearance at more than a Christmas or two. This...

Autumn in Copenhagen

Let’s talk about the apple martini. Google the recipe and you’ll find some bright green combination of vodka and apple schnapps. I envisioned a grown-up version with layers of fresh, fall flavor...
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