How about celebrating Christmas with colorful drinks? These recipes that Guia da Cozinha has selected, in addition to being delicious, are so beautiful that it will surprise your guests and still complement the decor🇧🇷 Thus, Christmas dinner becomes the perfect occasion to try some different and colorful drinks to impress your guests for the celebration.
Fun and super colourful, try a refresher Mojito with spearmint leaves or a delicious Bloody Marys with its vibrant red color! There is also a non-alcoholic version with pink lemonade, which is delicious and looks very beautiful. Innovate your Christmas party with these colorful and different drinks! See how to do it:
8 colorful drink recipes to celebrate Christmas
cotton candy
Time: 5 minutes
Performance: 1 portion
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- Gin 50ml
- 150ml toner
- 10 ml of grapefruit syrup
- 1 slice of Sicilian lemon
- Ice
Method of preparation:
- Put the syrup first so that it remains at the bottom of the glass, add the gin, tonic, lemon wedge and ice cubes.
- Around the bowl, use pink sugar found in candy stores (to fix the sugar on the edge of the bowl, wet it a little).
- Put a piece of pink cotton candy to decorate.
Negroni
Time: 1 minute
Performance: 1 portion
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 50ml of gin
- 50ml of Campari
- 50ml of red vermouth
Method of preparation:
- In a lowball glass put all the ingredients and fill with ice.
- Then stir until very cold and serve.
Red carpet
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 2 cups
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 75 ml sake
- 20 ml of grenadine syrup
- Prosecco just enough to complete the glass
- 2 drops of grapefruit bitters
- 1 slice of grapefruit
- balloon cup
Method of preparation:
- Pour the sake into a glass filled with ice.
- Then add the grenadine syrup and grapefruit bitters.
- Complete the drink with the prosecco and mix delicately with a long spoon.
- At the end, decorate the glass with a slice of grapefruit and the drink will look wonderful.
- Then just toast!
traditional mojito
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 1 cup
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 1 sprig of mint
- 2 teaspoons of sugar
- 30 ml of lemon juice
- 1 small glass of light rum
- sparkling water
- Ice
Method of preparation:
- Rub the insides of the glass with 2 mint leaves.
- Put 6 mint leaves, including the flavored leaves, into the glass.
- Add sugar and lemon juice.
- Using a pestle, mash the leaves with the sugar and lemon.
- Then stir in the rum and top up with sparkling water.
- Put the ice stones, stir and serve after.
Bloody Marys
Time: 20 minutes
Performance: 1 portion
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 1 dose (shot) of vodka
- 200 ml of tomato juice
- 1/2 cup of lemon juice
- 1 slice of lemon
- 4 drops Tabasco hot sauce
- 10ml Worcestershire sauce
- 2 pinches of salt
Method of preparation:
- In a shaker put the vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, salt and mix.
- Put ice in a tall glass and pour the mixture through a sieve.
- Garnish with a lemon wedge on the rim and serve.
refreshing pisco sour
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 2 portions
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 100ml of pisco
- 100ml of lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons of sugar
- 1 egg white
- 15 ice cubes
- Lemon slices to decorate
Method of preparation:
- Beat all ingredients in blender for 1 minute.
- Distribute between glasses for drinks and serve immediately, decorating with lemon slices.
Spanish
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 1 cup
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients:
- 300ml of red wine
- 1 can of condensed milk
- 10 strawberries
- Strawberry sauce
- Ice cubes
Method of preparation:
- Beat strawberries, wine and condensed milk in a blender.
- Decorate a bowl with the strawberry syrup on the bottom and pour the liquid over it.
- Finally, decorate the edge of the glass with a strawberry.
pink lemonade
Time: 10 minutes
Performance: 1 portion
Difficulty: easy
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons of black currant syrup
- 2 teacups of water
- 1 cup of Sicilian lemon juice
- sugar to taste
- Ice
Method of preparation
- Combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Then choose a glass for presentation and put ice cubes in it.
- To decorate, try putting lemon slices on the rim of the glass and a little blackcurrant syrup for a more intense color.
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