Toast the new year with our 6 creative holiday cocktail recipes

Holiday cocktail recipes

Whether you like your New Year’s libations toasty or chilled, we’ve got cocktails covered. Just choose a cocktail recipe from our eight creative concoctions to mix up some New Year’s cheer!

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Toasty toasts  

Holiday Punch Recipe

Mulled pom punch

Pomegranate seeds add a holly-berry vibe while pomegranate, pineapple and orange juice turn up the fruity flavor. Cinnamon sticks and cloves add just-right spice.

Two clear mugs filled with honey hot chocolate and garnished with chocolate shavings sit on a white and gray marble countertop; fairy lights and a Signature card envelope lay nearby.

Honey hot chocolate

Bits of dark chocolate, half-and-half and milk create a rich hot chocolate. A splash of honey liqueur in each cup makes this hot cocoa recipe a cheers-worthy cocktail.

Rum-pum-pum hot rum punch recipe

Hot Rum Punch

Made with dark rum, a variety of juices, pumpkin puree and spices, this deliciously different cocktail is destined to become a New Year’s Eve party star.

Chilled cocktails  

A spiced appletini in a couple glass is garnished with apple slices and crystalized ginger that has been speared onto a cocktail stick with a red tassel on one end; lying at the foot of the glass is a greeting card with lettered balloons that spell out

Spiced Appletini

Mix, shake and sip your way to spiced-apple goodness. Star anise cloves and vanilla bean seeds provide an unexpected sweet and aromatic flavor.

Bubbly French 75 cocktail in a champagne flute.

French 75

Fizzy and tart, it’s like a New Year’s Eve party for your taste buds!

A martini-style cocktail glass with a gold rim, filled with a red cocktail topped with a pink egg white foam and garnished with maraschino cherries on a cocktail pick.

Cherry Vodka Sour

Just like it sounds, this sipper is both sweet and sour. Practically guaranteed to please everyone at the party.

Tina Stamos is a food stylist who lives in Austin, Texas. When she makes it out of the kitchen, she likes to explore Texas, eat tacos from food trucks and teach her dogs how to play Frisbee.