Drinks for Christmas: three hot recipes with alcohol

So that it is no longer so uncomfortable and cold in winter, warm drinks should not be missing for Christmas. You can find three recipes for warm drinks with alcohol in this article.

Christmas drinks - recipe for a classic mulled wine

Warm wines, with citrus fruits and Christmas spices - combined correctly, you can conjure up delicious hot drinks for the Christmas season.

• Ingredients : 1 bottle of dry red wine, 1 organic orange or lemon, 2 sticks of cinnamon, 3 cloves, 1 star anise, 2 to 3 tablespoons honey or rock candy
• Preparation: Wash off the orange or lemon and cut them into slices.
• Heat the red wine in a saucepan. But make sure that the red wine does not boil, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate.
• Add the remaining ingredients and remove the pot from the hob. Let the mulled wine steep for an hour.
• Before you drink it, you need to warm it up again. Again, be careful not to bring it to a boil.
• Take a strainer and fish the ingredients out again or pour the mulled wine through the strainer into the cups.
• Tip: If you want to try something new, we recommend the trend drink glow gin.

Christmas drinks: apple punch

If you are not a big fan of red wine, you will love this delicious apple punch.

• Ingredients : 1 liter of apple juice, 4 cloves, 1 stick of cinnamon, 1 star anise, honey to taste, amaretto or fruit schnapps
• Preparation : Warm the apple juice in a saucepan on the stove and add all the ingredients.
• Let the apple punch steep for about 5 minutes. Pour this into the cups with a sieve so that the ingredients are not poured into it.
• Add a dash of amaretto or fruit schnapps to each cup to taste. You can also add the alcohol directly to the pot and taste it.

Simple Feuerzangenbowle

With a homemade Feuerzangenbowl you definitely score with your guests.

• Ingredients : 2 liters of red wine, 2 organic oranges, 2 organic lemons, 1 stick of cinnamon, 6 cloves, 3 star anise, 1 sugar loaf, 350ml rum (54%). If you want the bowl to be a little milder: 500ml orange juice
• Preparation : Cut the oranges into slices. Also cut the zest of the lemons thinly and as far as possible in one piece.
• Squeeze the lemons and pour the juice together with the spices into the red wine.
• Heat the red wine slowly on the stove. Again, be careful not to bring it to a boil.
• Now add the orange slices and lemon peel. You can decorate the lemon peel on the orange peel.
• Pour the red wine into a bowl. Then put the sugar loaf on the fire tongs, pour the rum over it and light it. Always use a trowel when the sugar loaf is on fire.

Are you still looking for the right dish for the Christmas dinner? In another article, we present the best websites for delicious recipes.