These hot drink recipes include our favorite beverages to keep you warm, help celebrate the festivities, maybe even give your immune system a little boost.
Swedish Christmas Glögg
: ToRVEhallerne
1/13
Glogg is Scandinavian mulled wine served at Christmas. This version combines port wine, brandy, whiskey, raisins, almonds, orange zest, cinnamon, and cardamon.
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Coconut Milk Hot Chocolate
: David Loftus
2/13
Rich, creamy, and divine. It also just happens to be paleo, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, kid-friendly, and adult-approved.
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Therapeutic Drink to Ward Off Colds
: Quentin Bacon
3/13
Forget Robitussin. This fragrant infusion not only makes a run to the pharmacy unnecessary, but it goes down with far, far more ease than that syrupy medicinal stuff.
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Kentucky Coffee
: Ben Fink
4/13
This bourbon-imbued after-dinner drink, a variation on classic Irish coffee, is guaranteed to make everything alright. Or at least seem it in the moment.
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Cold and Flu Elixir
: Gentl + Hyers
5/13
Made with honey, ginger, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and cayenne, this sweet sipper is incomparably better than those blechy-tasting, over-priced, brand-name cold medicines.
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Irish Coffee
: Tara Striano
6/13
A better way to start your day. Uh, we mean, end your day. That's what we meant. Yes. End it. Ahem.
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Spiced Cider
: Angie Mosier
7/13
This spiced cider, made with a blend of apple cider, bourbon, and warming spices is the perfect drink for a cold winter night.
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Apple Spiced Bourbon Toddies
: Stephen Murello
8/13
Infinitely more complex than the toddy of yore, this little number owes its lure to apple-y cider spiked with a hint of star anise and quite an indecent glug of bourbon.
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Spiced Milk Tea
: Ariana Lindquist
9/13
This classic spiced milk tea is made with chai spices and—are you ready?!—sweetened condensed milk. It's ridiculously lovely.
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Cinnamon Tea
: Ariana Lindquist
10/13
Sorta amazing what loveliness can be wrought from just a stick of cinnamon and some hot water. So simple. So soothing.
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Turmeric Lemonade
: Johnny Miller
11/13
You've no doubt heard the hype about turmeric being anti-inflammatory and healing. But the reason this turmeric lemonade rocks our world is its beguilingly subtle collision of earthy and spicy and sweet.
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Chai Spiced Apple Cider
: Marie Reginato
12/13
This chai spiced apple cider calls for nothing more than apple cider, your favorite chai tea, and a cinnamon stick. Quick liquid comfort.
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Mexican Hot Chocolate ~ Chocolate Caliente
: Ed Anderson
13/13
This concoction of hot milk and Mexico's incomparable chocolate is whipped into a frenzy with a milinillo--Mexico's unplugged answer to the immersion blender.
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