Hello Everybody, today's video is a festive drinks video
I'm gonna be showing you three very quick
very easy drinks for the festive season. And I love each and every one.
The first drink is a cranberry and ginger fizz, so
of course you will need some ginger ale, you don't have to have diet, but that's what I've got.
some cranberries, some mint,
some glasses of your choice
I've gone for some Kilner style glasses just because I think these look really nice
and of course some cranberry juice.
and some ice.
take some icecubes
and pop them into your glasses
then you want to pour some cranberry juice over your ice
next thing you wanna do is pour your ginger ale on top
add a couple of cranberries
into each one
This is mostly just for decoration
then a few sprigs of mint
and then pop a few festive straws in there
for good measure
so this is the finished cranberry and ginger fizz
This one is perfect I think for if you've got friends coming around in the evening
and you want something that's not necessarily filling or warming,
but you want something that looks quite cool and still has a little nod to the festive season with the cranberries and the ginger.
oh my God
It's so delicious
It's also a great alternative if you don't drink alcohol.
like a nice little mocktail.
The next drink I'm gonna show you how to make
is a peppermint white hot chocolate
Now, I love hot chocolate so much, I feel like this video would not be complete unless I did one.
All you need for this is milk and white chocolate
which you melt together and add
the peppermint.
But If you feeling
a little bit more lazy
there is always the option of
an instant white hot chocolate
which you can then just add the mint into as well.
Grab your favourite white chocolate
and break that into a heat-resistent bowl
turn on the hob
and pour your milk
into the saucepan
heat the milk through
on a medium heat
you want do this until it starts to simmer
when it starts simmering, remove it from the heat
and you want to pour it in on top of your chocolate
and then you want to whisk this together with the chocolate
so that the chocolate starts to melt into the milk
next you need some natural extract of peppermint
and you just want to add half a teaspoon
it completely depends on how minty you like your hot chocolate
and mix that in
smells so good
using a ladel, I'm going to pour this into my glass of choice
feel like I'm pouring some punch
now if you like your hot chocolates just like this, that's absolutely fine
however I feel like we can go the extra mile
and whip up some fresh double cream
and pop that on the top
put a dollop on each hot chocolate
or maybe two
now it's time to decorate
I'm going to
hook these tiny candy canes
over the side
because it is a peppermint hot chocolate after all
and then I'm going to grate some chocolate on the top
there we go
and there you have it, your peppermint white hot chocolates
and the last drink is a Cranberry and Pineapple Punch, which I think is a really nice alternative
to Mulled Wine
it's warm, you do it on a saucepan
and it's non-alcoholic, but still tastes delicious
okay, you want to pour
500 milliliters, so half of this carton of cranberry juice
into a saucepan
you then want to pour a quarter of the carton of pineapple juice in as well
you wanna add 1 tea spoon of ground allspice
1 tea spoon of ground cinnamon
a pinch of cloves
a couple of Star Anise
and a couple of cinnamon sticks
I'm also gonna do some slices of orange
making sure to keep some
for decoration
oh this is like the weirdest-looking orange I've ever seen
it's a double orange
and I'm just gonna pop in 2 slices of orange
and give that a little whisk
and then we need to take it to the hob
on a low heat you want this to simmer for around 5-10 minutes
making sure it doesn't burn or boil
once it's done, you want to be very careful
and pour your liquid through a sieve into a jug to serve
and the reason you wanna pour it through a sieve is so that you don't get things like cloves
and like massive chunks in your drink
but I would say to keep the cinnamon sticks
for decoration in your drink
now you simply wanna pour them in to your cups
pop your cinnamon sticks in
now I'm gonna cut a section of orange
cut that in half
and half again
and pop the little segments
into
the punch
this is delicious
this is essentially Christmas in a copper mug
so there you go, those are my 3 very quick, very easy festive drinks
hopefully there's something there for everybody
let me know if you try any of these
make sure to tweet me or to tag me on Instagram
and give the video a tumbs up if you enjoyed it
I'll see you again tomorrow
bye!