Celebration Cocktails: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions [Hardcover]

Make any size gathering truly festive and magical with a delectable themed cocktail that pairs perfectly with the occasion.

Let’s face it: If the occasion is special, the drink should be special too. Why trot out your weeknight gin and tonic or scotch and soda when something extraordinary is called for? Whether you’re serving a get-together with three people to celebrate a job promotion or a grand holiday party for three hundred people, cocktail expert Rhiannon Lee, author of three masterful books on mixology, serves up the recipe ideas you need in this colorful, photo-rich, and inventive book. She provides recipes both forpitcher and punchbowl batch cocktailsperfect for a big crowdand for single-glass drinksa host can make to suit guests’ individual tastes.

Withshort ingredient lists—so you can spend less time shopping and more time celebrating!—the recipes include:

• Lots of themed drinks forFall festivities,Christmas,New Year’s Eve, andEaster
• For sharing with your sweetheart onValentine’s Day, a romantic vodka martini with a splash of cranberry and a touch of rose water
• A delicate and exotic Lunar Martini, a blend of lychee juice, vodka, and a hint of lime, for celebrating theChinese New Year
• The Blushing Bride, a pink-hued bubbly pomegranate-flavored drink ideal forbridal showersandwedding parties
• Cocktails for holidays all around the globe, including the Hindu holidaysDiwaliandHoliandHanami, the Japanese cherry blossom holiday
• Touchdown Tea, a strong and refreshing iced tea cocktail with bourbon and lemon fortailgatingand any other sporting occasion

From the Spring Equinox to the Winter Solstice to all the weddings, birthdays, retirements, and holidays that lie in your future, you will finda lifetime’s worth of pl³#