Our friends at Northern Latitudes Distillery in Lake Leelanau are spreading cheer with these holiday cocktails. Thanks for sharing your recipes, Mandy and Mark Moseler!
All I Want for Christmas is a Chocolate Martini
Ingredients
- 1 ounce vodka
- 1 1/2 ounce Mackinac Island Fudge Chocolate Liqueur
- 1 1/2 ounce heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
- Good squeeze of Hershey’s syrup
Directions
- Add all ingredients to a shaker and shake on ice.
- Rim the glass with grasshopper cookies. Sprinkle with peppermint crunch.
Snow Bank
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Manitou Passage Rum
- 2 ounces coconut cream
- 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract
Directions
- Shake rum and coconut cream on ice.
- Rim cocktail glass with coconut cream, dip in freshly shaved coconut.
- Add one ice cube to glass and pour in drink.
Hot Grog
Ingredients
- 46 ounces pineapple juice
- 64 ounces cranberry juice
- 4 tablespoons whole cloves
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 8 cinnamon sticks broken in half
Directions
- Add all ingredients except the cinnamon sticks and cloves in the bottom of a percolator. Stir well.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the top basket of the percolator. Put lid on and plug in the percolator.
Hot Buttered Rum
Ingredients
- 40 ounces water
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon whole cloves
- 2 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 ounces Whaleback Spiced Rum (per drink)
Directions
- Heat up all ingredients except the rum.
- Serve in mugs with 2 ounces Manitou Passage Rum.
- Garnish with a shortbread butter cookie.
Reese’s Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces Reese’s infused vodka (directions below)
- 1 1/2 ounces milk
- 1 ounce Mackinac Island Fudge Chocolate Liqueur
- Hershey’s syrup
- Crushed Reese’s candies for rimming
- Reese’s peanut butter cup sliced for garnish
Directions
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice then add infused vodka, milk and chocolate liqueur. Shake until chilled.
- Rim a martini glass with syrup and crushed candy.
- Drizzle syrup inside glass in a pattern.
- Pour mixture in prepared glass and garnish with Reese’s cup sliced for rim.
*To make infused vodka, fill a mason jar with 1 cup Ice Dunes Vodka and 1/2 cup Reese’s pieces candy. Cover with tight-fitting lid and shake. Refrigerate overnight, then strain.
Almond Joy
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces Mackinac Island Fudge Chocolate Liqueur
- 1 1/2 ounces vodka
- 1 ounce pina colada mix
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
Directions
- Rim a cocktail glass with Hershey’s syrup and toasted coconut chips. *For a “fancy” glass, squeeze chocolate syrup in a pattern after rimming and before pouring shaken ingredients.
- Shake all ingredients with ice and pour in a martini glass.
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Mounds
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Mackinac Island Fudge Chocolate Liqueur
- 2 ounces pina colada mix
- Chocolate syrup for rimming
- Shredded coconut for rimming
Directions
- Rim a martini glass with chocolate syrup and shredded coconut. Swirl some extra syrup in a design inside the glass.
- Shake Mackinac Island Fudge Chocolate Liqueur and pina colada mix on ice.
- Add 1 ice cube to the bottom of a glass and pour shaken ingredients in.
- Garnish side of glass with a Mounds candy and sprinkle extra coconut on top.