The holidays are here, and with all the shopping, planning, and cooking this time of year, you may be looking for a fun cocktail to impress your friends and extended family at your holiday gatherings — or maybe you just need a drink after all the stress.
Either way, Blake’s Hard Cider offers these three simple drink recipes made specifically for the holidays. Two incorporate the brand’s new imperial-style hard cider, “Grand Cherry,” and the third uses Blake’s Autumn Cranberry Wine along with their “Mule de Pomme” hard cider.
Fashioned ’46
Ingredients
- ½ tsp. brown sugar
- 2-3 dashes of cherry aromatic bitters
- 4 oz. Blake’s Hard Cider Grand Cherry
- 5 oz. bourbon
- 1 large ice cube or sphere
- Orange peel, for garnish
- Luxardo cherry, for garnish
Directions
- In a cocktail shaker, add bourbon, brown sugar, and bitters. Shake.
- Place ice in rocks glass and pour cocktail into glass
- Add Grand Cherry
- Garnish with orange peel and cherries, if desired
Grand Cosmo

Ingredients
- 2 oz. cherry juice
- 4 oz. Blake’s Hard Cider Grand Cherry
- 1 oz. cherry vodka (may substitute unflavored vodka)
- 1 oz. Cointreau
- 1 oz. fresh squeezed orange juice
- Orange slice, for garnish
- Fresh sage, for garnish
Directions
- In a cocktail shaker, add cherry juice, vodka, Cointreau, and orange juice with several ice cubes
- Shake and strain contents into a martini glass
- Add Grand Cherry.
- Garnish with Orange slice and fresh sage, if desired
Yule Mule
Ingredients
- ½ oz. Lime Simple Syrup
- 2 oz. Blake’s Autumn Cranberry Wine
- 2 oz. Ginger Beer
- Top With Blake’s Hard Cider Mule de Pomme
- Lime slice, for garnish
Directions
- In a rocks glass or copper mug, add ice, simple syrup, wine, and ginger beer
- Stir
- Top with Mule de Pomme
- Garnish with lime
Looking for even more drinks to try at home? Check out the recipes section on HourDetroit.com for more.
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