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Shooting Star Martini

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Shooting Star

This elegant martini is sure to brighten the holidays. The Shooting Star martini is a mix of fresh raspberries, citrus lime, tart cranberry, aromatic bitters and smooth, oak-aged Canadian whisky. Its taste is rivalled only by it’s festive appearance.

Let the Shooting Star martini guide you to a very merry Christmas!

Ingredients

1 oz Canadian Club Whisky

1/3 oz lime juice

6 raspberries

Splash of cranberry juice

Dash of Angostura Bitters

Starfruit slice for garnish (optional)

Method

Start by placing ice in a martini glass to chill while making the drink. In a shaker glass, muddle the raspberries and fill with ice.

Add remaining ingredients and shake until well mixed. Discard the ice from the martini glass and strain the shaken ingredients into the now chilled martini glass. Place the slice of starfruit on the rim for garnish.

Tips

If starfruit is not available, placing three raspberries on a pick is a nice option.

You may double strain the shaken ingredients to remove the seeds from the martini if you prefer.

Hot Buttered Rum

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Hot Buttered Rum

Hot Buttered Rum

Break the cold spell and warm up with a hot cup of deliciousness. Here’s a drink that’ll help you feel toasty. Enjoy warm rum with soft notes of oak, molasses, creamy butter and nutmeg.

Ingredients

2 oz Brugal Anejo Rum

1 tsp brown sugar

4 oz hot water

1 Tbsp butter

Dusting of nutmeg to garnish

Method

In a heat-resistant glass or mug, dissolve brown sugar in hot water, add Brugal Anejo Rum, then float a spoonful of butter on top. Grate or sprinkle nutmeg over top.

Tips

This is a rather simple recipe and the majority of the flavour comes from the rum.

Be sure to use an aged rum like Brugal Anejo, which is a blend of ages between two to five years, for best results.

Christmas Punch

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Christmas Punch

It’s here, it’s here! The time of year that is filled with cheer. The holiday season is upon us and with it, gatherings of friends and family. To impress your guests, serve some Christmas Punch made with black cherry bourbon, smooth aged rum, cherry liqueur, tart cranberry and a splash of ginger ale for fizz. Don’t forget the peppermint candy cane!

Ingredients

½ oz. Brugal Anejo Rum

½ oz. Jim Beam Red Stag

½ oz. Bols Cherry Brandy Liqueur

2 oz. cranberry juice

Splash of Gingerale

Garnish with a candy cane

Method

This is a shaken drink so start by pouring all the ingredients, except for the ginger ale, into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until all ingredients are chilled and well mixed. Strain into a tall glass filled with ice. Top with ginger ale and place a candy cane in the drink resting the hook on the rim.

Tips

This drink is quick to make. However, if having a large number of guests to accommodate, serve in a large punch bowl. To accomplish this, multiply the recipe by the amount of drinks you anticipate will be consumed. Pour into a large punch bowl and stir briskly to ensure well mixed. Just before guests arrived add several ice cubes and approximately ¼ ounce of ginger ale for every drink you anticipate. Garnish the rim of the punch bowl with small candy canes hanging from the rim.

Some tips for serving in the punch bowl are to leave the ice in a bucket on the side so the ice doesn’t melt into the punch, watering down the drink. Guests can add ice to their glass before filling with the punch. This can also be done with the ginger ale. Omit the ginger ale in the punch and leave a few cans unopened next to the punch bowl so guests can add a fresh splash to their drink as needed.

You can also freeze cranberry juice into ice cubes. Use half the amount of cranberry juice needed in your punch. Let the cranberry ice cubes chill the punch and, as they melt, add more cranberry flavour.

Orchard Sour

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Orchard Sour

Orchard Sour

The Orchard Sour cocktail is full of flavour.  Fine Courvoisier cognac, aged a minimum of four years, imparts smooth oak notes that combine with sweet subtle apricot and sour citrus lemon. The drink finishes with bubbles that dance on your tongue.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Courvoisier VSOP

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

2 tsps apricot jam

Soda to top off the drink

Lemon wheel for garnish

Method

Put two teaspoons of apricot jam into a shaker, then pour in remaining ingredients. Fill shaker with ice and shake vigorously.

Strain into a tall glass with new ice and top with soda.

Garnish with a lemon wheel.

Tips

This cocktail is very easy to adjust to your preferred taste. If you enjoy a cocktail that is a little sweeter, use 7Up instead of soda. If you prefer your drink a little more sour, increase the amount of lemon juice to 1oz and use soda.

Girl Guide Cookie

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Girl Guide Cookie

Last week, while buying a box of Girl Guide cookies, I was reminded of a martini I used to make many years ago. This martini tastes very similar to the popular cookies, with flavours of cocoa, coffee, peppermint and milk. Now I can save the cookies for the kids while I have my own adult version.

Ingredients

3/4 oz. Banff Ice Vodka

3/4 oz. Kahlua Liqueur

1/2 oz. Peppermint Schnapps

2 oz. Milk

Chocolate shavings for garnish

Method

Fill a martini glass with ice to let chill while we make the drink. Fill a shaker glass with ice and pour in all the ingredients. Shake thoroughly and discard the ice in the martini glass. Then strain in the now chilled glass. Grate chocolate over the drink.

Tips

This martini is perfect for dessert.

Substitute almond milk or lactose free milk if you have an allergy to dairy.