Cheers to the Holidays with SVEDKA Vodka & New York City

This holiday season, SVEDKA Vodka and New York City hotspots are toasting to the festive occasions and year-end fetes with specialty cocktails for everyone to enjoy.

Cheers!

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SVEDKA’s Banana Snowman

1 part SVEDKA Vodka

1/2 part banana liqueur

1 part heavy cream

1/4 part Black Velvet Toasted Caramel

muddled banana chunks.

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker over ice, shake and fine strain into a martini glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg and a skewer of banana chunks and salted caramel pieces.

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SVEDKA’s Serendipity

1 1/2 parts SVEDKA Clementine

1 part sour mix

1 part orange juice

1/2 part pomegranate grenadine or Rose’s grenadine.

Build in a highball glass by combining all ingredients, except grenadine. Mix well over ice and then drop grenadine by pouring a steady stream down the side of the glass and allowing it to fall to the bottom of the glass.

*For pomegranate grenadine, dissolve 1 part sugar and 1 part pomegranate juice and store refrigerated.

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SVEDKA’s Candy Cane Martini

1 1/2 parts SVEDKA Vodka

1 1/2 parts white crème de cacao

1 part peppermint schnapps

1 part heavy cream.

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker over ice, shake and strain in to martini glass. Garnish with crushedcandy cane rim and/or a candy cane.

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Ginger Toddy

Venue: Hudson Lodge

2 oz Powers Irish Whiskey

4 oz Pinot Grigio

1 cup raisin

1 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup sliced ginger

1 teaspoon citric.

Combine all ingredients into a pot over medium heat. When ingredients have dissolved, strain, and place back onto heat. Add 1 sliced orange and keep warm. Pour into coffee mug. Garnishwith a slice of lemon.

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Big Apple Cider

Venue: Hudson Lodge

4 oz apple cider

1 oz Plymouth Sloe Gin

1/2 cup white sugar

5 allspice berries

5 cloves

1 stick cinnamon

Prepare Apple: Cut top off apple and take out core. Combine all ingredients into a pot over medium heat. When sugar has dissolved, strain. Pour ingredients into hollowed apple. Garnish with sprig of mint.

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Snowy Manhattan

Venue: Hudson Lodge

1 1/2 oz bourbon

3/4 oz antica

1/4 picon

1/4 maraschino

Fill glass with ice. Add all ingredients to a shaker over ice and shake until cold. Before straining ingredients into glass, empty glass and dust outside of glass with confectioners’ sugar. Strain ingredients into glass.

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Neverland Bellini

Venue: Buca di Beppo

2 oz Sparking Wine

1/2 cup of Raspberries Pureed

3/4 oz Lime Juice

3/4 oz Fresh Orange Juice and Rosemary Spears

Mix pureed raspberries, lime and orange juice together in shaker. Pour about 1/2 inch into the bottom of each champagne glass and fill with Sparkling wine. Garnish: Rosemary spear and raspberries.

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XMAS Margarita