Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition
Merry Cherry Christmas
To frost fruit brush with egg white, sprinkle with caster sugar and leave to dry for about 2 hours.
Wake Up Santa
Navy Gin combined with Heering Cherry is MAGIC. Optional spicy bitters (which add a lovely lift to the finish) are available at drinks shops or online.
Saturnalia
Desserty top notes of cherry and vanilla that give way to astringent and citrucy middle without ending either too sweet or too dry. Well-balanced.
one bodacious broad
This is a delicious brunch cocktail!
Orange you glad its cherry?
Coffee, rich, cacao, bitter, sweet. Taking a bite of the garnish before having a sip of the drink, really brings out the cherry flavour as well.
Christmas your way
It has a slight sweet sherbet flavour when mixed with normal Japanese gin (I use Roku Gin). Replace the gin for Shiraz gin to make it even more velvety
Mrs. Carstensen's Cookie
This cocktail reminds you of grandma's cherry shortbread cookies - prominent sweet cherry notes with an almond backbone. It's prominent with cinnamon,
Cheery G.O.A.T.
The Cheery G.O.A.T. was inspired by Cherry Heering's origin country of Denmark and my own Scandinavian Heritage. Growing up we would decorate our tree
Snowbound Fantasy
I wanted to use the famous and iconic Blood and Sand as an inspiration, but spin it into something new and original. Whisk(e)y, cherry, and orange were
Heeringway Daiquiri
Wintery take on a Hemingway Daiquiri.
Cherrychoc Moon
This is a simple cocktail with few ingredients and two intriguing layers. The chocolate button garnish complements the White Crème de Cacao liqueur which
Peanut butter and Jelly Old Fashioned
This seriously tastes just like a Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich from your childhood!
Cherry Sour Christmas
My after Christmas drink in cold Netherlands looking for a candy tasting cocktail.
San-ta-hattan
My own creation, that I and my friends really enjoy.
Santa's Favorite
Approach construction casually and finish with a flourish.
Cheery Jules
Lime on the nose with the vermouth leading. Lime and cherry mingle joyfully in the middle before the Chartreuse provides a dry, bracing, herbal finish.
