Holiday cheers!

White Christmas Cocktail

Ingredients

1 fluid ounce heavy cream

1 fluid ounce vodka

1 fluid ounce peppermint schnapps

1 fluid ounce white creme de cacao

1 cup ice cubes

1 small candy cane (optional)

Directions

Pour the heavy cream, vodka, schnapps, and white creme de cacao into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled glass, and garnish with a mini candy cane to serve.

Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients

2 cups brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 pinch salt

2 quarts hot water

3 cinnamon sticks

6 whole cloves

2 cups rum

1 cup sweetened whipped cream

Ground nutmeg to taste

Directions

1. Combine the brown sugar, butter, salt and hot water in 5 quart slow cooker. Add cinnamon sticks and cloves. Cover and cook on Low for 5 hours. Stir in rum.

2. Ladle from the slow cooker into mugs, and top with whipped cream and a dusting of nutmeg.

Santa's Little Helper

Ingredients

1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger grapefruit vodka (such as Absolut Ruby Red®)

2 1/2 fluid ounces grapefruit juice

1 1/2 fluid ounces cranberry juice

Directions

Combine grapefruit vodka, grapefruit juice, and cranberry juice in an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake and strain cocktail into a martini glass.

Rudolph-Tini

Ingredients

2 fluid ounces vodka

1 fluid ounce hazelnut liqueur, such as Frangelico

1 fluid ounce coconut flavored rum

1 fluid ounce half-and-half cream

2 (4 inch) cinnamon sticks

1 maraschino cherry

Directions

Pour the vodka, hazelnut liqueur, rum, and half-and-half into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass; garnish with the cinnamon sticks to look like antlers, and the cherry on the rim to look like a nose.

Poinsettias

Ingredients

4 ounces brut Champagne

1 1/2 tablespoons cranberry juice

Directions

Pour champagne into a champagne flute, and top with cranberry juice.