As the winter approaches and the air starts to feel crisp, it’s the perfect time to refresh your menu and start thinking about the drinks you’ll be serving your customers to warm their spirits.

Here are some cocktail recipes for you to try out this winter.

1: Blood orange and carrot negroni

Ingredients:

• 2 thick slices of blood orange

• 1 teaspoon coconut palm sugar

• ice cubes.

• 50 ml Aperol

• 50 ml Antica Formula

• 50 ml Bombay Sapphire or Tanqueray gin

• 50 ml carrot juice

• 50 ml blood orange juice

• 2 oversized square ice cubes

• 1 baby heritage carrot (halved lengthways)

Equipment

• Blow torch.

• Cocktail shaker.

• 2 short tumblers.

Instructions:

Step 1:

Prepare the garnish for the drink by sprinkling two slices of blood orange with coconut palm sugar. Run a blow torch over each slice until the sugar melts and caramelises. Set aside for later.

Step 2:

Take a handful of ice into a cocktail shaker. Pour in the instructed amount of Aperol, Antica, gin, carrot juice, and blood orange juice and give it 4 to 3 good shakes.

Step 3:

place an oversized ice cube in each glass. These ice cubes are a much better option for drinks like these as they melt more slowly than normal-sized ice cubes. The last thing you want is a watered-down Negroni! Strain the content of the shaker into the glasses.

Step 4:

Garnish by skewering one piece of carrot through the orange slice. Lay this in the glass so that the orange is floating.

Serve this to customers and recommend taking a little sip of the drink through the caramelized piece of orange to have the full experience of the drink.

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2: Hot Buttered Rum 

Ingredients

• 1 stick Unsalted butter

• ½ cup Light brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

• 1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon Ground cloves

• 1 teaspoon Ground nutmeg

• 1 teaspoon Ground allspice

• Pinch of salt

• 2 oz. Dark or aged rum

• 6 oz. Hot water

• Cinnamon stick, for garnish (optional)

Instructions:

Step 1:

In a mixing bowl, mix butter and vanilla extract with sugar until well combined.

Step 2:

Stir in hot water until butter is melted. Add spices and rum, and stir again until well combined.

Step 3:

Serve hot in mugs with a cinnamon stick or ground cloves for garnish.

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3: Star Martini 

Ingredients

• 400 ml milk

• 15 ml lime juice

• 20 ml sugar syrup

• 6 pcs of Kaffir leaves

• 3 pcs of lemon grass

• 100 ml vanilla syrup

• 4 tbsp Pro Espuma

• 5 pcs of ginger root

• 30 ml passion fruit puree

• 500 ml 42 Below Vodka

Instructions:

Step 1:

Add lemongrass, kaffir leaves, fresh ginger, and vodka together and create an infusion.

Step 2:

Mix milk, vanilla syrup and Pro Espuma and strain through Funnel & Strainer directly into an iSi creamer. Screw on iSi Cream Capsule and shake vigorously.

Step 3:

Add Infused Vodka together with the sugar syrup, lime juice, passion fruit pulp and ice to a shaker and shake vigorously. Pour the cocktail into a cocktail glass, cover with vanilla foam and decorate with half a passion fruit.