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Thanksgiving Cocktails: 13 easy drink recipes to enjoy during this dinner feast

A good Thanksgiving dinner is nothing without tasty cocktails. Take inspiration from fall flavors and combine alcohol with seasonal ingredients such as apples, cranberries or cinnamon.

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By Editorial Team

When Thanksgiving comes, there is nothing better than getting together for dinner with family and friends. The table is set with many tasty, tempting recipes, but how to serve them with? Instead of opening the usual bottle of wine at the table, choose from these 13 of our Thanksgiving cocktails.

Quick and easy, you only need a few ingredients to create delicious drinks with vodka, rum, or cider. Grab your glass and sip on these cocktails that evoke all the fruity flavors of fall – apples, cranberries, pomegranate, and more.

Want to wow your guests with all the preparations you've been working on? Then show off your bartending skills, too, and show them how to put together a worthwhile Thanksgiving dinner. Our favorite drinks for this festive evening? We can't say no to an apple martini or mulled wine.

Your guests will appreciate these details alongside themed appetizers. Moreover, these Thanksgiving cocktails are a great way to calm your nerves before relatives arrive home!

1. Mulled Cider: a cozy warming drink recipe to enjoy when it’s cold outside

Mulled cider is an easy drink to make during cold seasons. It's heated with spices, sugar, and other ingredients to create a spicy, sweet, fragrant hot beverage.

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2. Cosmopolitan: the recipe for the cocktail from Sex and the City

The Cosmopolitan is a strong classic American cocktail based on vodka but it is a drink that immediately makes you think of New York. In fact, served in a cone glass, the Cosmopolitan cocktail was drunk for the first time by the singer Madonna at the Rainbow Room in New York City but became famous for the Sex and the City tv series.

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3. Manhattan: the fantastic recipe for the classic rye whiskey cocktail

Manhattan is a classic cocktail based on rye whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. It's complex, with a touch of spice, sweetness, herbal flavor and bitterness.

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4. Holiday punch

For me at Christmas cannot miss a good punch, that's why I pass by here to leave the recipe for this Christmas punch, which in my opinion is one of the best, because it is full of rich sweet, cozy and familiar aromas.

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5. Colorado Bulldog: the amazing recipe for an after-dinner cocktail

Anyone who loves a White Russian cocktail needs to try the Colorado Bulldog. Like the White Russian, this tasty after-dinner cocktail is made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and milk, but the Colorado Bulldog also has cola in it.

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6. Rossini Cocktail: the refreshing cocktail recipe from Italy

Rossini cocktail is a refreshing and thirst quenching drink made of Prosecco and blended strawberry pulp. It is an excellent aperitif, also perfect for low-alcohol cocktail lovers thanks to its fruity component that adds a sweet and pleasant flavor.

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7. Amarula Cream: the secret ingredient to delicious cocktails

You've probably tried Irish cream liqueur before, but have you ever had Amarula cream? This delicious liqueur is made from the Amarula fruit and has a rich, creamy texture and a flavor that's similar to toffee.

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8. Margarita: the best tequila recipe for making the classic margarita cocktail

Margarita is an easy, popular drink recipe perfect to enjoy in summer. Served with a salty glass rim, it's made of tangy lime, sweet orange liqueur and citrusy blanco tequila.

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9. Irish Cream: the easy and quick recipe for homemade Irish cream

This Irish cream is a very easy copycat version for Baileys Irish cream that you can make it for you recipes or as a drink. You only need a handful of ingredients (sugar, cream, whiskey, coffee, cocoa powder) and not much cooking. For this Homemade Irish Cream recipe, whiskey is mixed with a sweetened cream.

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10. Penicillin Cocktail: the easy recipe to make it at home

The Penicillin cocktail is one of the most loved and popular drinks, with its characteristic sweet, fresh and tangy taste at the same time. The recipe is due to the Australian bar tender Sam Ross, who prepared it for the first time in 2005 in New York. However, the name comes from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin.

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11. Sazerak Cocktail: the recipe of the old drink from New Orleans

Sazerac cocktail is an official IBA drink made of cognac, bitter and absinthe which was created in the mid 1800's in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is one of the oldest cocktails in the history of drinks. It has a magical note thanks to cognac and the sugar cube soaked in absinthe and Peychaud's bitter.

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12. Americano Cocktail: the easy cocktail recipe to make at home

The Americano is a cocktail that is made up of Campari bitter, red vermouth and soda. It is prepared directly in the old fashioned glass and it is an IBA cocktail. As you could have noticed, all ingredients are Italian, but the drink is named in homage to the Italian boxer Primo Carnera.

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