6 Festive Cocktails from some of our Blue Book Houses and Restaurants, ideal for making at home this Christmas! 

Spiced Winter Gin & Tonic from Hayfield Manor

 

Ingredients 

40ml Glendalough Gin

20ml Irish Mist 

10ml Cinnamon

10ml Pumpkin Spice

15ml Lemon Juice

15ml Port

 

Shake in a cocktail shaker with ice.

Garnish with a cinnamon stick and clove-studded lemon.

 

 

Festive Dream Cocktail from Cahernane House

Ingredients

1 shot pouring cream

1 shot Baileys

½ shot of Tia Maria

½ shot of Captain Morgan Rum

½ shot of Frangelico

 

Mix all ingredients together in cocktails shaker with ice. 

Strain into martini glass. 

Dust with chocolate.

 

Winter Wonderland Cocktail from The Wilder Townhouse

Ingredients

50ml Jameson Whiskey

15ml lemon juice

Pinch of cinnamon

3 tsp maple syrup

 

Shake in a cocktail shaker.

Garnish with a twist of orange peel.

Bourbon Stout Flip Cocktail from The Merrion Hotel 

Ingredients

60ml Woodford Reserve Bourbon

20ml brown sugar syrup 

50ml Guinness 

1 whole egg

 

Add all ingredients to shaker and using a hand blender, blitz the ingredients for 3-4 seconds.

Add ice to the shaker and shake hard.

Double strain into an Irish coffee glass. 

To enjoy the drink hot, steam the entire drink, but be careful not to cook the egg.

 

The BallyMULLoo Christmas Warmer Cocktail from Ballymaloe House 

Ingredients

750ml Shiraz

50ml Killahora Apple Port

25ml apple brandy

2 cinnamon sticks

10 cloves

1 star anise

Zest of 1 orange 

Zest of half an orange

100g sugar

 

Gently warm all ingredients together in a heavy bottomed pot on a low heat. 

Strain all bits before serving.

Garnish with a fresh slice of orange & cloves

 

Gin-gle Bells Cocktail from No.1 Pery Square Hotel & Spa

Ingredients

40ml gin

20ml port

20ml cointreau

40ml cramberry juice

10ml sugar syrup

10ml lemon juice

1 egg white

 

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled martini glass.

Garnish with a mint spring.