This is the prime time to try new cocktail recipes with seasonal flavors and alcohols. 

1. Orchard Toddy

Apple cider and cinnamon are the perfect warming combo for winter. This toddy combines cinnamon cider and whiskey with a peppery (and immune-boosting!) honey and ginger syrup.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple
• 5 oz Scotch or Irish Whiskey
• 25 oz lemon juice
• 3 oz honey ginger syrup**
• 3 oz water

Directions

Add all ingredients to a slow cooker and set at low heat. Allow to heat up and then serve and garnish with a lemon wheel studded with cloves.

If using a stovetop, add all ingredients to a small saucepan and simmer over low heat. Be careful not to allow the mixture to get too hot, because the alcohol will boil off.

**Honey Ginger Syrup:

Ingredients

• 2 cups honey
• 1 cup water
• 2 Tbsp finely chopped peeled ginger

Directions

Peel the ginger and then finely chop. Add all ingredients to a pot and cover. Simmer over medium to low heat for 20 minutes. Strain, allow to cool, and store in the refrigerator.

2. Hot & Angry

This drink boasts a Mexican flair with tequila and Cholula hot sauce. A slightly sweet base of cinnamon apple cider and pineapple juice makes this drink a party favorite.

Ingredients

• 4 oz Angry Orchard Cinnful Apple
• 1 oz Blanco Tequila
• 5 oz lime juice
• 5 oz pineapple juice
• 75 oz simple syrup
• 5 tsp Cholula hot sauce

Directions

Shake and strain into a rocks glass with ice. Garnish with a lime wheel and cinnamon stick.

3. Angry by the Fire

If you like a bit of spice with your cocktail, Angry by the Fire will definitely be up your alley. Fireball whisky is toned down with just enough heavy cream for a rich, warming cocktail recipe you’re sure to enjoy.

Ingredients

• 4 oz Angry Orchard Crisp Apple
• 5 oz Fireball
• 2 oz orange juice
• 1 oz heavy cream
• 5 oz vanilla syrup (simple syrup with vanilla extract)
• 1 tsp lemon juice

Directions

Shake and strain into a collins glass with no ice. Top with Angry Orchard Crisp Apple. Garnish with a pinch of cinnamon powder sprinkled on top.

4. The Florist

This cocktail hails from the Carillon Miami Wellness Resort’s brand-new wellness cocktail menu. The Florist is a refreshing floral cocktail blended with Botanist Gin, which is crafted from eight botanicals and 22 foraged flowers from Islay. It goes perfectly with Boiron Calamansi – a unique floral citrus juice from the Philippines that supports detoxing the colon.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ oz Botanist Gin
• ½ oz Grand Poppy Liqueur
• ¾  Boiron Kalamansi
• ½ Orange Blossom Honey
• 3 Drops Lavender Bitters
• Soda
• Dehydrated lime peel, for garnish

Directions

Combine ingredients in a shaker minus soda, shake with ice, strain into highball glass with ice. Top with soda and garnish with a dehydrated lime peel.

5. Pumpkin Power

The Pumpkin Power is yet another one of the Carillon Resort’s delicious cocktail recipes, combining the certified organic Crop Pumpkin vodka and spicy, citrussy Fruit Lab Hops Liqueur. Blood orange adds vitamin C and antioxidants — much needed in the winter.

Ingredients

• 1  oz Crop Organic Pumpkin
• 1 oz  Fruit Lab Hops Liqueur
• 1 oz  Boiron Blood Orange
• blood orange, for garnish

Directions

Combine ingredients into shaker and shake well with ice. Strain into rocks glass with ice cubes. Garnish with blood orange.

6. Pinky Groove

The Pinky Groove cocktail hails from the Le Guanahani resort on St. Barth — it brings the flair of the Caribbean to any party, no matter how cold the temperatures, with watermelon juice, lemongrass, and rose syrup. While in the summer it’s lovely to garnish with fresh watermelon, in the winter, ginger makes a great garnish too.

Ingredients

• 4 cl Absolut Elyx
• 1 cl watermelon juice
• 5 cl apple juice
• 2 cl lemongrass infusion
• 1.5 cl rose syrup

Directions

Shake ingredients with ice in a shaker and serve in a highball glass.

7. The Black and White Cocktail

Chief bartender William Oliveri serves this warming cocktail at Bar 228 at the Meurice hotel in Paris, but you can just as easily make it at home. At the hotel, Alain Ducasse hot chocolate is used, but your favorite hot chocolate recipe will do in a pinch.

Ingredients

• 1.35 oz rum
• 0.3 oz Grand Marnier
• 2.7 oz hot chocolate, prepared
• whipped cream, for garnish

Directions

In a grog glass, pour the ingredients one by one: the rum, followed by the Grand Marnier, and finally the hot chocolate. Stir, then top with whipped cream.

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The following 4 cocktail recipes are perfect for warm weather and will excite your senses and those of your guests all season long.

Your summer cocktail concoctions should reflect the season’s light, refreshing ways. But instead of attaining flavor rushes by overdoing the sugar, artificial ingredients, and other not-so-body-friendly additives, opt for cocktail ingredients that showcase the inherent deliciousness and bounty of summer’s true flavors.

4 Summer Cocktail Recipes

1. Orange Peach Mimosa Slush

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 orange
• 1 cup frozen peach slices
• 2 cups ice cubes
• ¼ freshly squeezed orange juice
• ½ cup Champagne
• Orange slices for garnish

Directions

Slice the orange in half, remove the seeds, and cut off the peel. Add the orange flesh, frozen peach slices, ice cubes, orange juice, and Champagne to a high-speed blender and mix until slushy and smooth.

Pour the mixture into four wine glasses and garnish with orange slices.

2. Honeydew Basil Margarita

Serves 4

Ingredients

• ½ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup basil leaves, plus extra for garnish
• 4 cups chopped honeydew melon, frozen
• ½ cup + 2 tablespoons blanco tequila
• 1 cup fresh lime juice

Directions

In a high-speed blender, add all the ingredients together and puree until smooth. Pour into glasses and garnish with basil leaves.

3. Summer Punch

Serves 8

Ingredients

• 1 cup bourbon
• 1 cup white vermouth
• ½ cup fresh lemon juice
• ¼ cup maple syrup
• 1 ½ cups chilled ginger beer

Directions

Combine all ingredients into a punch bowl. Serve over ice.

4. Lemon Drop

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 1 cup vodka
• 2 ounces triple sec
• ½ cup maple syrup
• ½ cup lemon juice

Directions

Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until cool and then filter into glasses.

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