Love bourbon at the holidays? When I'm entertaining in fall and winter, I often tend towards whiskey. This spirit is great for the holidays because its warm, sweet notes of caramel and vanilla are cozy and pair well with winter flavors like cranberry, pomegranate, and apple. As a cocktail expert, I've reviewed my list of cocktail recipes to find all my favorite bourbon Christmas cocktails for the season! From spiked hot chocolate to hot toddys
Juicy apples - You get little bursts of juicy apples in every bite. Tart cranberry glaze - I dressed up the scones in a pink cranberry glaze to make them completely irresistible. Buttery and tender - Even though these scones are vegan-friendly, they're as buttery, tender, and flaky as traditional scones! Use up leftover cranberries - Got extra cranberries lying around after the holidays? Use them up in these scones, my cranberry white chocolate cookies, and these cranberry orange muffins!
This recipe takes oatmeal cookies up a notch with its additions of cranberry and coconut. These Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies with Coconut are a fun twist on the classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookie. They are thick, chewy, and infused with coconut flavor using two types of coconut: shredded coconut and coconut extract. The dried cranberries are a welcomed substitution for the raisin-haters out there, while the whole wheat flour and subtle sweetness make them pass as a breakfast food.
A Nantucket Cranberry Pie isn't one of the unique items Trader Joe's dreamed up. It's a real New England specialty, and it brings a bracingly tart flavor you don't often get in overly sweet holiday pies. It's not even what you might normally think of as a pie, being almost a hybrid between pastry and cake. It features a mixture of cranberries and walnuts, cooked in a cake-like batter.