{"id":50628,"date":"2013-12-14T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50628\/christmas-cocktail-recipes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:00:10","slug":"christmas-cocktail-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2013\/12\/14\/christmas-cocktail-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas cocktail recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This cheery season is filled with parties and events that bring the spirit of the season out in everyone.<br \/>\nAs a part of these festivities there are some wonderful drinks that you can serve that fit the holiday theme perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Angel&#8217;s delight<br \/>\nCream, triple sec and gin combine for an interesting cocktail delight. The Angel&#8217;s Delight is a wonderful dessert cocktail to serve at a dinner party.<br \/>\nYou will need:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>30 ml cream.<\/li>\n<li>20 ml triple sec.<\/li>\n<li>20 ml gin<\/li>\n<li>Two to three dashes of grenadine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What to do:<br \/>\nPour the ingredients into a shaker with ice cubes.<br \/>\nShake well.<br \/>\nStrain into chilled cocktail glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Candy Cane<br \/>\nThe Candy Cane is a really fun holiday cocktail and it&#8217;s also one of those that are fun to create. The mix is interesting, what with it being a base of berry-flavoured vodka with peppermint and cacao. The glass is rimmed with crushed candy canes or other peppermint candy.<br \/>\nYou will need:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>20ml berry flavoured vodka.<\/li>\n<li>20ml peppermint schnapps.<\/li>\n<li>20ml cr\u201ame de cacao.<\/li>\n<li>7ml grenadine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What to do:<br \/>\nPour the vodka, peppermint schnapps, Cr\u201ame de Cacao and grenadine into a cocktail shaker with ice.<br \/>\nShake well.<br \/>\nPour into a cocktail glass rimmed with crushed peppermint candy.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Jones<br \/>\nThis drink begins with a blend of the flavour ingredients and is topped off with Sprite for a little fizz, then garnished with fresh mint.<br \/>\nYou will need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four fresh strawberries.<\/li>\n<li>One part vodka.<\/li>\n<li>Two teaspoons of superfine sugar.<\/li>\n<li>140ml pineapple juice.<\/li>\n<li>Sprite.<\/li>\n<li>Mint sprigs for garnish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What to do:<br \/>\nIn a blender, whiz the vodka, strawberries, sugar and pineapple juice together.<br \/>\nPour the mix equally into two glasses.<br \/>\nTop with Sprite.<br \/>\nGarnish with a sprig of mint.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='785da324b9ebddc931d6de1c503fab43'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are a favourite time of year for many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":50629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}