This delicious Cranberry Hot Toddy recipe is lightly spiced with winter spices like cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and orange. If you like mulled wine, you will LOVE this toddy recipe.
2-4cupsof bourbon, depending how strong you like your cocktails
Instructions
Pour the cranberry juice into a medium-sized pot. Add the mandarin orange slices, cinnamon sticks, ginger, peppercorns, cloves, and star anise and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes. Strain the juice to remove the spices.
4 cups unsweetened cranberry juice, 1 mandarin orange, 2 3-inch cinnamon sticks, 2 inch piece of ginger, 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 teaspoon whole cloves, 5 star anise
Add a ½ cup of maple syrup to the pot. Taste and add more maple syrup, to taste.
Pour 1 ounce of bourbon into your glass and top with 1 ounce of the spiced cranberry juice.
2-4 cups of bourbon
Notes
If you can't find unsweetened cranberry juice, use cranberry cocktail and omit the maple syrup.If you'd like, sugar the rim with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon mixed with 1 tablespoon sugar.Make a big batch by adding 4 cups of bourbon to the spiced cranberry juice and let guests serve themselves.If you like a less strong cocktail, use 1 ounce of bourbon and 2 ounces of spiced cranberry juice.The spiced cranberry juice will keep for at least a week in the fridge.