Who doesn’t love Gingerbread? 

Europeans have been making Gingerbread for more than 1000 years, each country having it’s own special recipe.  At some point folks in Northern Europe started making houses and people out of Gingerbread for holiday markets.  The town of Bergen, Norway builds an entire Gingerbread town.

Thus was born the Gingerbread Man.

The popular cookie hopped the Atlantic with Europeans and has been with us ever since. 

The famed Waldorf Astoria, in … Read more

Perfect for enjoying while snuggled up next to a crackling fire!

Warm up and toast the Holidays with this spin on the traditional Toddy recipe.  Created by H. Joesph Hermann proprietor of Elxir is San Francisco, his Spiced Pear Toddy is bursting with fall fruitiness and holiday spice.  Multiply this recipe and make it for group!

If you love Tiki Drinks like we do, this is one of the grandaddies of the genre. Created by Don the Beachcomer in 1934, the recipe was top secret.  Don even instituted a two Zombie limit to keep the competition from figuring it out. Maybe it could have been that they were really strong as well!

The recipe we have here was adapted by Tiki Historian Jeff Barry for his book, Sippin’ Safari, a must … Read more

Ingredients:
2 oz Camus Elegance VS Cognac
4 oz ginger ale
2 lemons
2 limes

Directions:
Squeeze the lemons and limes over fresh ice. Add the Camus and ginger ale to the ice and stir. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with cinnamon stick (optional).

Courtesy of Camus Elegance VS Cognac.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces Baileys Original Irish Cream
3 ounces brewed chai tea.
Raw brown sugar
Cinnamon stick

Preparation:

Brew a pot of chai tea.
Add two teaspoons of raw brown sugar for each cup of tea. Stir until dissolved.
Pour chai tea and Baileys Original Cream into a coffee mug.
Stir with cinnamon stick.

courtesy Baileys Original Irish Cream

This drink means Bon Appetite.

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka
3.5 oz apple juice (Apple and Eve is kosher parve)
1 cinnamon stick (Liebers cinnamon sticks)
1 apple slice

Directions:
Combine Russian Standard Vodka, apple juice and ice in a highball glass. Stir well and garnish with the apple slice and cinnamon stick.

Courtesy of Russian Standard Vodka.

Ingredients:
1 cup Cabo Wabo Reposado Tequila
4 cups apple cider
1 cup cranberry juice cocktail
¼ cup orange-flavored liqueur
1 tsp nutmeg
Cinnamon sticks, garnish

Directions:
In a pot or crockpot, heat and stir cider, cranberry juice cocktail, and nutmeg on low just until hot for 2 hours. Do not boil. When ready to serve, turn on high for 10 minutes and stir in tequila and liqueur. Garnish with a cinnamon stick. Makes 6 … Read more

Ingredients:
2 oz Skyy Infusions Blood Orange
6 oz hot apple cider
Nutmeg
Cinnamon stick, garnish

Directions:
Combine ingredients in a snifter glass. Sprinkle with nutmeg and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Courtesy of Skyy Vodka.

Ingredients:
1.5 oz SKYY Infusions Citrus
0.5 oz agave nectar
4 oz hot water
3 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 pat unsalted butter (just under a tablespoon)
Grated nutmeg

Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a large mug, topping the liquid with hot water last. Stir, grate nutmeg over top and let steep for a couple minutes before serving.

Courtesy of SKYY Vodka.