33 Easy Christmas Cocktails (Batch Drinks, Martinis & Punches For A Crowd)
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Make spirits bright with this festive collection of Christmas cocktail recipes! These fun and delicious drinks are perfect for holiday parties, cosy nights in, or celebrating the season with a toast. With a mix of dessert cocktails, dinner and brunch cocktails for your Christmas drinks menu, you will have inspiration for any holiday occasion!

Easy To Make Christmas Drinks
There’s no better way to get into the holiday spirit than with a fun and festive drink in hand. With classic flavours and creative twists, these Christmas cocktails are sure to impress your guests.
This list has something for every taste (and plenty of festive drinks you can convert into Christmas mocktails). They’re easy to make and perfect for adding a touch of seasonal cheer to any gathering.
Cheers to the most wonderful time of the year with these merry and bright cocktail recipes!
Pair these festive cocktail recipes with these Christmas party platters!
Festive Christmas Cocktails
Sugar Cookie Martini Christmas Cocktail
This sugar cookie martini is a festive Christmas cocktail that tastes like a delicious Christmas sugar cookie with an adult beverage kick!
Holiday Cranberry Cocktail
If it's simple you want, this 3 ingredient cocktail is for you. All you need is vodka, cranberry juice and rosemary simple syrup.
White Christmas Mojito
This White Christmas Mojito is made with classic mojito ingredients with the addition of coconut milk for a tropical flavour.
Mistletoe Margarita
This mistletoe margarita recipe combines classic margarita ingredients with the festive flavours of orange and cranberry.
Gluhwein (Mulled, or Hot-Spiced, Wine)
Gluhwein will have you dreaming of European Christmas markets and cozy nights around the fireplace.
Festive Eggnog Martini Cocktail
This holiday eggnog martini is creamy, sweet, and full of the festive flavours you will love!
Gingerbread Latte Dessert Rum Cocktail
This gingerbread latte dessert rum cocktail is made with spiced rum and coffee liqueur and is the perfect dessert cocktail.
Cranberry Moscow Mule
Sweet and tangy with a gingery bite, this Moscow Mule includes cranberry cocktail juice.
Poinsettia Champagne Cocktail
Includes champagne or prosecco, Cointreau, cranberry juice and garnished with lime, rosemary and fresh cranberries.
Grinch Punch
This Grinch punch can be made as a cocktail or mocktail, with vodka and lemon lime flavours.
Santa's Hat Coconut Rum Cocktail
Turn your martini glass into an upside-down Santa hat with this fun coconut rum cocktail, garnished with shredded coconut around the rim.
Ponche Crema Recipe (Venezuelan Eggnog)
Pomegranate Cranberry Champagne Punch
This holiday cocktail is made with homemade cranberry juice, pomegranate juice, and champagne, plus you can make it up ahead of time before your Christmas celebration.
Lime Cranberry Tequila Cocktail
A refreshing cranberry tequila cocktail with fresh lime juice, cranberry juice and sweet maple syrup.
Mrs Claus Cocktail
A creamy festive cocktail with eggnog, chocolate liqueur and peppermint schnapps.
Mistletoe Martini Christmas Cocktail
The seasonal flavours of cranberry and pomegranate come together for a delicious festive cocktail.
Sugared Cranberry Christmas Mimosa
This sugared cranberry Christmas mimosa uses cranberry instead of orange juice for a holiday twist, paired with sugared cranberries.
Jack Frost Cocktail
PIneapple and coconut brings the flavours of the tropics to your Christmas drink menu this year.
Christmas Cranberry Sangria
Sangria is a perfect party cocktail when you're looking for batch cocktails! This Christmas sangria is filled with seasonal flavours that your guests will love.
Cranberry Ginger Mojito
Rum, lime juice, ginger and soda water are the key ingredients for this Christmas mojito recipe.
Gingerbread White Russian
Add a festive twist to the classic White Russian ingredients of Kahlua, vodka, and cream with traditional gingerbread spices to create a cocktail perfect for the holidays.
Winter White Cosmopolitan
Add a winter twist with this white cosmopolitan with 4 ingredients - cranberry or cherry vodka, white cranberry juice, lime simple syrup and cointreau.
Candy Cane Peppermint Martini
These candy cane peppermint martinis are the perfect way to use peppermint flavoured vodka this holiday season!
Gingerbread Cocktail
This frozen Gingerbread Cocktail blends the festive flavours of gingerbread and eggnog with vanilla ice cream and spiced rum for a Christmas adult beverage or skip the rum and make it a festive milkshake for the kids.
Gingerbread Martini
This gingerbread martini is made with rum and sweetened with homemade gingerbread syrup for a creamy, spiced flavour.
Cranberry Mimosa
This cranberry mimosa is also called a Poinsettia Cocktail and is an easy-to-make Christmas brunch cocktail that is great for a crowd of people.
Chocolate Peppermint Expresso Martini
A peppermint holiday twist to your favourite expresso martini.
Old Fashioned Hot Buttered Rum
Old fashioned hot buttered rum is rich and smooth with warming spices and notes of vanilla that’ll warm you up from the inside out.
Christmas Sidecar
Traditionally a citrus-flavoured cocktail made with cognac, triple sec and lemon juice, this sidecar has cranberry and brandy.
Sparkling Bourbon & Ginger Cocktail
A bubbly bourbon cocktail recipe with a simple spicy ginger syrup for the perfect blend of spicy, sour, sweet and bubbly.
Hot Apple Cider
This simple hot apple cider recipe can be made on your stove top or in the crock pot, perfect for batch Christmas cocktails.
Tinto De Verano
Tinto de Verano is a popular and easy Spanish cocktail made with just two ingredients - red wine and lemon soda!
How To Choose Cocktails For Your Christmas Party
If you’re serving more than about eight people, you cannot make drinks to order. You’ll spend the entire night behind the bench and see nobody.
For a crowd, pick one batch drink (a punch, a sangria or a jug of something) and put it out with a ladle. Then pick one simple pour for people who don’t want it. That’s the whole bar sorted, and both can be made before anyone arrives.
For six or fewer, you can make individual cocktails and it’s part of the fun.
Choose one drink that looks impressive, and make everything else easy. Guests remember the one good drink, not the effort behind the other four.
Rimming a glass with crushed candy cane or shredded coconut takes two minutes and makes a plain drink look considered.
Match the drink to the time of day.
Morning or brunch: something with juice or bubbles. Mimosas, spritzes, anything light.
Afternoon: the same, but colder and longer. Sangria, mules, spritzes.
After dinner: creamy or coffee-based. Espresso martinis, white Russians, anything with Baileys.
The most common mistake is serving a heavy cream-based cocktail at 2pm. Nobody wants a gingerbread white Russian in the afternoon.
One warm drink if it’s cold, none if it isn’t.
If you’re having a northern hemisphere Christmas, mulled wine or hot buttered rum makes the night. In Australia it’s a hard sell in 30 degrees, so I’d swap it for something frozen instead.
Always make one without alcohol.
There’ll be someone driving, pregnant, or just not drinking, and handing them a soft drink while everyone else gets a garnish is a bit rubbish.
Most of the cocktails below work without the spirit. The punches, the mules and anything cranberry-based lose almost nothing. Make a jug of the mocktail version alongside the real one and let people help themselves.
Buy more ice than you think. Everyone underestimates ice. Whatever you’ve bought, buy that again.
If you are looking for festive food recipes for the holiday season, check out these Christmas dessert recipes and Christmas party snacks for even more yummy and indulgent holiday ideas!
More Christmas Recipes:
- Christmas grazing platters
- Christmas breakfast ideas
- Easy rum balls
- White chocolate Christmas trees
- Choc mint truffles
- Christmas Appetisers
- Christmas Party Themes
- New Year’s Eve Appetisers
- Recipes Using Candy Canes
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