Drink Your Way through Thanksgiving Day

For our friends that prefer to celebrate Thanksgiving with a good cocktail or two, we're here to give you the best beverages to sip on...all day long! From breakfast to dessert, cleanse your palate between bites with these festive libations. Sip, sip, hooray! Time to enjoy Thanksgiving Day!

Apple Cider Mimosas

Add apple cider and freshly cut apples to your favorite champagne for the perfect Thanksgiving morning treat!

Cranberry Ginger Fizz

Ginger helps with digestion which you'll definitely need when devouring a Thanksgiving Day meal!

Ingredients
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1 cup fresh cranberries
1 lemon, cut into wedges
1/2 orange, cut into slices
1 1/2 cups dry gin - Bombay Sapphire, Beefeater or Tangueray suggested
1 cup chilled Ginger Ale (or Ginger Beer for a more pronounced ginger flavor)
4 mint sprigs

Instructions

• Bring sugar and water to a boil in a medium saucepan, stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; pour off all but one cup of syrup, reserving any extra for another use.
• Heat the syrup to a boil and then reduce heat to medium. Add the cranberries and simmer for 2-3 minutes until they just begin to burst. Remove from heat and let cool in syrup.
• Place 2 Tablespoons drained cranberries and 6 Tablespoons cranberry syrup in a large pitcher; add the lemon wedges and orange slices.
• Using a muddler or wooden spoon, vigorously mash the fruit.
• Stir in gin and let steep for at least 5 minutes.
• Strain into a medium pitcher.
• Fill 4 glasses with crushed ice and 1/4 cup ginger ale.
• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and then pour half the cranberry mixture into the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds, strain liquid into two glasses. Repeat.
• Mound additional ice on top of each glass and garnish with 3 candied cranberries and a mint sprig.

Persimmon and Pomegranate Sangria

This is the perfect recipe if you prefer to make a big batch beverage!

Ingredients
3 fuyu persimmons
1 pomegranate
1 bottle Pinot grigio, off-dry
1 ½ cups white grape juice
1 cup spiced rum
¼ cup sugar
2 cups ice

Get the instructions here!

The Frozen Turkey

This delicious drinkable dessert will totally fill you up if the regular turkey hasn't done so already!

Ingredients
1 pint container Häagen-Dazs butter pecan ice cream
1 oz Wild Turkey 101
1 oz Amaretto
caramel sauce
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup cream
pinch of salt
4 Tbsp unsalted butter

Instructions

• Make the caramel sauce by mixing the sugar, cream, butter and salt in a saucepan and heating to a simmer. Cook for 5 minutes, then pour into a jar and let cool. If the sauce thickens too much after cooling, microwave it for a few seconds.
• For the cocktail, blend the ice cream, the Wild Turkey and the Amaretto in a blender until smooth. Serve in fancy glasses garnished with a drizzle of the sauce.
• If you'd like to make this ahead, put the whole blender back in the freezer after blending and then give it a quick re-blend right before serving.

Drink your way through Thanksgiving Day and devour the details of the best beverages to celebrate. Cheers!