5 Cozy Christmas Drinks to Make at Home ☕️✨ (Easy Holiday Recipes)

Hello friend, happy Saturday, I hope you had an amazing week and a restful and joyful Thanksgiving. Please comment down below and let me know how your holiday was. I am so excited for this weekend's video because we are back with our annual holiday coffee drinks and I have some really scrumptious little drinks that I cannot wait to show you how to make today. As always, all of the recipes will be linked down in the description box below so you can make them at home. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to make a cookie butter eggnog latte, which I've already took many sips of, a classic peppermint mocha with homemade peppermint syrup, a sugar cookie chai latte with homemade sugar cookie syrup, an iced gingerbread cold foam latte with homemade gingerbread syrup, yes we're making lots of homemade syrups today, and finally the famous hot cocoa cold brew. All of these drinks are so festive and fun and I want to know which one is your favorite so be sure to watch to the end so you can let me know before we get started. It would mean so much to me if you hit that subscribe button if you're not already part of the family, but let's not waste any more time, let's get into the video. All right, we're going to start off with our cookie butter eggnog latte. This one is really similar to the cookie butter latte I showed you a few years ago, except for with a little festive twist with our eggnog. We're going to start by putting one to two tablespoons of cookie butter or Biscoff spread in the bottom of your mug. I don't know about you, but I am obsessed with cookie butter, the flavors and the taste of it are just so nostalgic, especially during the holidays. Now we're going to melt this down in the microwave for about 30 seconds until it's nice and melted and smooth. All right, now we're going to come over here to our espresso machine and pull two shots of espresso on top of the cookie butter. Okay, now for our milk. Quick little coffee tip, always keep your milk jug in your freezer. The colder your cup is, the colder your milk will stay and that'll give you more time when you're frothing to get a really nice microphone. Now I'm going to do half milk and half eggnog for this since this is our eggnog latte and I don't anticipate it to froth quite as well as just plain whole milk will do, but it'll still froth up pretty nice. So I'm just doing four ounces or half a cup of whole milk and then half a cup of eggnog for a total of eight ounces, which is one cup. If you don't have an espresso machine at home, you could also combine these in a glass or microwave safe dish and then microwave them to heat them up and then use a hand frother to get it nice and frothy. Luckily that didn't fall in the mug. I got distracted. I'm just going to tap a little bit of cinnamon and there you have your beautiful, yummy cookie butter eggnog latte. It's so good. Okay. Next up, I'm going to show you how to make a peppermint mocha. I used to love peppermint mochas, but now I feel like every time when I get them out, they're way too sweet. So I've been making them at home and now that I figured out how to do it, I have been making these every morning because they're so good. The star of the show is this homemade peppermint syrup. I showed you guys how to make this in my blog. I think it was two or three weeks ago. If you didn't see that video, I'm going to put it here. Sauce pan, get one cup of sugar and one cup of water over medium heat. We're just going to heat this up until all the sugar dissolves. After about a minute or so, take it off the heat and then we're going to stir in half a teaspoon of peppermint extract and that's literally it. Okay. Now that we have our peppermint syrup, it's time to make our drink. In a mug, we're going to pour about one to two tablespoons of this syrup in the bottom. Now, after doing this a couple of times, I have found that it's better to put a little bit of chocolate sauce in here. I really feel like it helps bring out the mocha-y-ness of this drink, but if you want to skip this step, you totally can. I did about a tablespoon, maybe two tablespoons. It's kind of up to your own discretion. It's like chocolate milk. Does anybody make chocolate milk still these days? You just pour a glass of milk and then you just kind of do this until it looks right and then you stir it. And if you need more, you just keep adding more. I feel like one to two tablespoons is the perfect amount. Then you're going to need a little bit of cocoa powder. This honestly is so, when you pour in your frothed milk, I feel like it helps make the design look really pretty. I'm just going to sprinkle like a teaspoon of this on top because we've already got a lot of chocolate in there. And if you're omitting the syrup, you could totally just do cocoa powder, but it's not going to have as strong of a chocolate flavor. Now, we're going to pull two shots of espresso over this and then we'll froth some milk. Ha! I tried to do a heart because I have the Grinch mug and I, I can't, I failed. I failed. But you know what we're going to do? We're going to take one of these and we're going to sprinkle a little bit of cocoa powder on top. And you're never going to be able to tell. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. All right, friends, we are moving on to our sugar cookie chai latte. You can do this one iced or hot. I'm going to show you the hot version. And then we need to come over to our stovetop because we've got to make some sugar cookie syrup. Listen, I was in the airport the other day, we were coming home from our cruise and I stopped at Starbucks to get their, I think it's their sugar cookie latte. It might be called something different, but you guys, it was so bad. I literally couldn't finish it. I don't know what kind of what is going into those cups, but I literally could not finish my drink. And so I'm going to show you how to make a sugar cookie syrup that's actually yummy that you can use in your coffees at home. Okay. Starting off like all of our other syrups, we're going to do equal parts, water and sugar. So I'm doing one cup of water and one cup of white sugar. Now mix this together with like a rubber spatula or whisk until all the sugar has melted and it just comes to a boil. Okay. Once that starts boiling and all the sugars dissolve, remove it from the heat. And then from here, we're going to add a teaspoon of vanilla and half a teaspoon of almond extract. And then the tiniest pinch of salt. Stir all that up. Okay. Now that needs to cool down a good bit before we can pour it into our jar. And so in the meantime, we're going to heat up our chai and our milk in a microwave safe dish. I'm using this one that has a handle and a spout. That way I can pour it out easier. I like using the Tazo chai tea concentrate. I'm going to do half a cup of this and then half a cup of any kind of milk. This time I'm going to use almond milk, but use whatever milk you want. Great. Now we're just going to heat this up. This smells so good, you guys. Okay. I actually have a little bit of leftover, so I'm just going to pour this straight into my cute little sugar cookie mug. Oh, I guess he's a gingerbread, but we're making a sugar cookie drink, so I felt like this was fitting. So you're just going to need like a tablespoon or so of that. It's pretty sweet. So adjust to your liking. And we're going to pour our chai milk mixture on top of that. Okay, now we're moving on to our iced drinks. Next I'm going to show you how to make a gingerbread cold foam latte. So we're back over on our stovetop because we need to make our gingerbread syrup. I think the best thing to do after watching this video is take a day and make all of your holiday syrups. That way they're ready for your Christmas drinks whenever you want them. I will link the recipes for the peppermint syrup, the sugar cookie syrup, and then this gingerbread syrup in the description box below. They're on my website so that you have them. We're going to do equal parts water and this time we're going to do brown sugar. This is going to be a little bit richer of a syrup. And then same thing as the last syrup. We're going to stir this together and keep it hot until all the sugar is dissolved. Once all the sugar is dissolved, remove it from the heat. Then we're going to mix in one teaspoon of ground ginger, teaspoon of cinnamon, quarter teaspoon of ground nutmeg, and a quarter teaspoon of ground cloves. Finally, one teaspoon of vanilla and stir all that up. Okay. One more thing to make before we assemble, we're going to make a spiced cold foam in a small little dish. You're going to need a quarter cup of heavy whipping cream and then about a little less than a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon and just a sprinkle of nutmeg. You don't need a lot of this at all. Now you could froth this as is, but I'm going to add a little bit of the gingerbread syrup to infuse even more of that flavor into our drink. So we need to carefully put this into our jar. This smells so good. I love making my own syrups. Once you make your own syrups at home, you'll never go back. I'm just going to do like a drop of this and then hand frother, whip this up. It only takes a couple seconds. Heavy whipping cream gets thick really fast. Just watch it and you'll see as soon as it's ready. Final countdown, you guys. Get a fun glass. We're going to pour some of that yummy syrup in the bottom, maybe like a tablespoon or two, depending on how sweet you want it. I'm just going to do a little bit. Now we're going to get some ice on top of that. For your coffee, you could pour two shots of espresso over this or you can use cold brew. I'm going to do cold brew. I'm trying fizzy cold brew for the first time. They had this at the grocery store and it looked really good. I'm going to fill my glass about halfway up with this and about half a cup of milk and finally top with our gingerbread cold foam. All right guys, last drink, this is the home stretch. Comment down below if you're still with me. Our last drink is going to be an iced hot cocoa cold brew. I love this drink. I feel like this was on, was this on the secret menu at Starbucks a couple of years? I remember making a Tik Tok about it. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this was like an official drink, but it was something you could get at the shop either way. It's delicious. I love the juxtaposition and like the irony of hot cocoa, but it's cold and it's so yummy and it uses a lot of the same ingredients we've already been using and it's probably the one that comes together the quickest. So first get a fun glass and we're just going to kind of drizzle along the sides with our chocolate syrup. I've never really been that good at this. The good thing is it doesn't have to be pretty. It's just for dramatic effect. Wow, that actually looks really cool in this glass. Can you see that? I'm going to put a teeny tiny bit more in the bottom to mix in with the cold brew because that stuff on the side was more for decoration. And now we're going to do a splash of vanilla syrup. I'll link the recipe to this. It's super easy to make, or you can just use a store-bought one. This is going to help balance out the chocolate, so we're just going to do a little splash of that and then one cup of cold brew. Beautiful. I'll give that a quick little mix. Okay, now we're going to add in some ice. Now I like to do a splash of milk just because I like it a little creamier, but you can leave it out if you prefer your coffee more black. And then last but not least, we're going to make a little chocolate cold foam to top it. So just like we made the other cold foam, we're going to get a quarter cup heavy whipping cream with a teaspoon of cocoa powder and a tiny splash of that vanilla syrup. Then take your hand frother and whip that up. All right, you guys, here is our lineup. Let me know in the comments, which one is your favorite or which one you're excited to try. I hope this video made you smile and got you excited for the holiday season ahead. Comment down below what else you want to see here on this channel. We have Christmas recipes coming, and so if you're not already, be sure to hit that subscribe button so that you don't miss them. Thank you so much for watching and have a great rest of your weekend. Bye!