Maple Holiday Cocktail Recipes

Smokey Niagara Peach Mule

Ingredients:

Garnish:

  • Windwick FarmΒ freeze dried peaches
  • Lime twist
  • Candied ginger
  • Cinnamon stick

Instructions:

  • In a copper mug or highball glass, add whisky, peach sauce and lime juice. Stir together.
  • Torch the end of a cinnamon stick and place it in the glass, cloche to smoke.
  • Remove cloche and cinnamon stick.
  • Fill the smoked mug with ice and gently stir to chill.
  • Top off with ginger beer.
  • Garnish as desired. We recommend Windwick Farm 100% Local freeze dried peaches, a lime wedge and candied ginger along with the smouldering cinnamon stick.

Blue Sap Smash

Ingredients:

Garnish:

  • 1 Rosemary sprig with thick stem
  • 3 Fresh blueberries
  • Small bowl of water
  • White sugar, for rolling

Instructions:

  • In a mixing glass, add rosemary and grapefruit juice. Muddle until fragrant. Strain into a cocktail shaker using a fine mesh strainer to remove any pieces of rosemary. 
  • Add gin to mixing glass, swirl to rinse and pour over strained rosemary into the cocktail shaker to wash any leftover essential oils from the rosemary. Remove strainer. 
  • Add maple blueberry sauce to shaker and gently muddle. Add a few ice cubes and shake to chill. 
  • Strain the cocktail using a julep strainer into a double rocks glass over large ice, shaking the tin to ensure all the muddled blueberries make their way into the glass. 
  • Top with Original Sap Sucker and stir gently. 
  • Garnish with sugared rosemary and blueberries.

Merry White Meadows Punch

Ingredients:

Cold Infused Muled Wine

Punch

  • Cold Infused Mulled Wine
  • 1 Medium orange, sliced thinly
  • 1 Granny smith apple, sliced
  • 1 cup Whole cranberries, fresh or frozen
  • 250 ml | 1 cup White cranberry juiceΒ 

Top with

Garnish:

Instructions:

  • To prepareΒ cold infused mulled wine, grab a 1L resealable jar and add whole spices, sliced ginger, orange peel strips, maple cranberry sauce, elderflower liqueur and white wine. Give it a good stir before sealing. Refrigerate overnight or up to 3 days to allow flavours to infuse.Β 
  • Once sufficiently infused to your liking, strain the cold mulled wine infusion using a fine mesh sieve into a large measuring cup.Β 
  • In a large pitcher or punch bowl, add prepared fruit, cold infused mulled wine and white cranberry juice. Stir together, cover and refrigerate for a few hours before serving to allow fruit time to soak and punch to chill.Β Β 
  • Once ready to serve, pour punch into cocktail glasses rimmed withΒ maple sugar, adding scoops of soaked fruit as desired.Β 
  • Top each glass withΒ maple cream aleΒ and garnish with a cinnamon stick, star anise and a twisted orange peel.

Everything Nice Maple Martini

Ingredients:

Cocktail

Garnish:

Instructions:

Cinnamon Maple Sugar Rimmer

  • In a small shallow bowl, mix together maple sugar and cinnamon.
  • Wet the rim of a martini glass by lighty dipping it into a shallow dish with some maple syrup, letting any extra drip off before gently rolling the glass into the prepared cinnamon maple sugar.

Cocktail

  • Pour a small amount of maple syrup into the bottom of the martini glass. 
  • Stir maple butter into a freshly brewed shot of espresso to dissolve. 
  • To a cocktail shaker, add vodka, maple cream liquor and maple buttered espresso. 
  • Add ice and shake vigorously for 15-20 seconds. 
  • Double strain into prepared martini glass, aiming for the edge of the glass to layer cocktail over the syrup. 
  • Garnish with a mini stack of pancakes on a cocktail pick.