Recipes entered into the 2023 Heering Cherry Christmas Cocktail Competition

Tentoumushi

You could sub out any Whisky in place of rye whisky and it would be a hit. I have used knob creek quarter oak cask too and it was beyond delicious.

Chocolate Cherry Manhattan

Stir all ingredients over ice for 20-30 seconds.

Cherry Baby

My wife requested a festive cocktail and this is my Christmas take on a brandy crusta for the season. Potentially, an improvement on the classic. It was

Cherry Baby

Delish and too good not to share. You could swap for Gingerbread Syrup for Cinnamon Syrup. You could also use chocolate or orange bitters. Cool use for

CCC

CCC stands for Cherry Chocolate Cake.

Cherry Cheers

Once the champagne is poured over the mixture in the glass, I recommend mixing everything up and down with a barspoon in a subtle and delicate way, to

Peanut butter and Jelly Old Fashioned

This seriously tastes just like a Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich from your childhood!

Bittersweet Love

The idea was to create a flavor similar to the cherry sauce that inside luxardo cherries.

Christmas Cherry Sour

Created for the cherry herring cocktail contest. Pairs two of my favorite flavors, chocolate and cherry and adds in a nice Demerara rum for a great festive

Awilda Noel

For fans of Old Fashioned and Manhattans but using completely different ingredients. A nice after dinner sipper, if I do say so myself.

Two Red Roses & a Cucumber in a Cherry Tree

To further accentuate this cocktail, use any gin that contains lime, rose and/or cucumber as one of its' botanicals. Cucumber slices are cut a 1/4 inch

Cheering in the Rye

One of my favorite Christmas desserts is a Black Forest Trifle which includes Heering Cherry Liquor. I wanted to play off those flavors to create a twist

Porto Twist

Accessible, fruity, and surprisingly refreshing.

Merry Cherry Christmas

You don't need to add the egg white as it doesn't adjust the flavour here, so this can be substituted for a vegan alternative like Aquafaba.

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.

Sonder

. When I think of Christmas, I think of my late grandad, I think of him digging through a box of heroes chocolates, I think of him putting a little too