4 Absolut Cocktails To Make Over The Holidays

One way to make the holidays feel like the holidays would be pumping pine needle scent into your apartment while streaming a burning fireplace on your TV. A better option would be making any of these cocktails. They’re the kind of drinks that feel just the right amount of celebratory, but still don’t require too much effort. Make a couple for a social distanced gathering, or one to go along with the pine needle scent / TV fireplace situation.

Absolut Yule

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Drink If You Like: Moscow Mules, Apple Cider

How It Tastes: Wintry, spicy, like something you’d drink after shoveling your driveway

You’ll Need:

• Mule glass or rocks glass

• Ice

• 1 part Absolut Vodka

• 1 part apple cider

• ½ part lime juice

• 2 parts ginger beer

• Apple slice

At some point, someone might have gifted you some mule glasses. Dig those out of the back of the kitchen cabinet, or grab a rocks glass, and fill it with cubes. Add 1 part Absolut Vodka, 1 part apple cider, ½ part lime juice, and 2 parts ginger beer. Garnish with a thin slice of apple.

Order a Yule cocktail kit here.

Absolut Jingle Buck

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Drink If You Like: Gimlets, Cosmos

How It Tastes: Tart, refreshing, like a festive crowd-pleaser

You’ll Need:

• Rocks glass

• Ice

• 1 part Absolut Vodka

• ¾ part cranberry juice

• ¾ part lime juice

• 2 parts ginger ale

• Rosemary

• Fresh cranberries

This one couldn’t get any simpler. Fill your rocks glass with ice cubes. Add 1 part Absolut Vodka, ¾ part cranberry juice, ¾ part lime juice, and 2 parts ginger ale, and stir briefly. Garnish with a couple of fresh cranberries and a rosemary sprig.

Champagne Cosmo

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Drink If You Like: Cosmos, Champagne, Thanksgiving all year round

How It Tastes: Crisp, fizzy, like a black tie gala in your home

You’ll Need:

• Champagne flute

• ¾ part Absolut Vodka

• ¾ part cranberry juice

• ¼ part triple sec

• ¼ part lime juice

• Champagne

You’re going to want a Champagne flute for this cocktail, just to make things appropriately celebratory. Add ¾ part Absolut Vodka, ¾ part cranberry juice, ¼ part triple sec, and ¼ part lime juice directly into the glass, and top with Champagne. It doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t) be the fanciest Champagne, but it should be one you’d be willing to drink on its own.

Espresso Martini

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Drink If You Like: Coffee, Martinis, Drinks that taste like dessert

How It Tastes: Frothy, pleasantly bitter, like it should be bottled and sold at grocery stores

You’ll Need:

• Martini glass

• Ice

• 1⅓ parts Absolut Vodka

• ⅔ part Kahlúa

• ⅔ part espresso

• 3 coffee beans

Make your espresso - if you have a machine use that, or else run down to the coffee shop and ask for a shot. Either way, let it cool before you start making your cocktail. Now would also be a good time to put your martini glass in the freezer to chill.

Put 1 ⅓ parts Absolut Vodka, ⅔ part Kahlúa, and ⅔ part espresso in your shaker. Add more ice than you’d think and shake hard for around 15 seconds. You want to get a nice frothy foam happening, so this isn’t the time to be gentle. Strain into your chilled martini glass. Garnish with coffee beans.

See more cocktails from Absolut here.