For New year you can serve not only the dishes, but also special drinks, traditional for this holiday. The range of New Year's drinks depends on the country where you spend this holiday, however during a house feast you can quite combine cocktails and liqueurs according to the most various national recipes.
Hot chocolate with spices
This recipe represents festive option of widely known drink - hot chocolate.
It is required to you: - 1 stick of cinnamon; - 4 stars of an anise; - 1-2 seeds of allspice;
- 1/4 tsps of ground cardamom; - 1/4 tsps of paprika; - 1 tablespoons of sugar; - 2 tablespoons of powder of cocoa; - 2 cups of milk;
- half of a vanilla bean; - 125 g of a dark chocolate.
Consider that the amount of spices in this recipe is given in bigger quantity, than is required for two portions of cocoa. On 500 ml of milk it is necessary to add 1/4 tsps of the mixed spices.
Put cinnamon, an anise and pepper in the coffee grinder, crush them. In small capacity mix cardamom and paprika and pour other crushed components there. Mix everything. In separate capacity pour out cocoa, sugar and 1/4 tsps of the prepared mix of spices. In a pan pour out milk and put vanilla, pour mix from cocoa, sugar and spices. Stirring slowly, bring milk to the boil then add chocolate. When it completely is dissolved, pour hot chocolate on cups and give warm.
New Year's milkshake
It is required to you: - 1 l of milk; - 200 g of sugar; - 2 tsps of vanilla sugar; - cinnamon stick; - 50 g of a roasted almond; - 8 eggs; - 100 ml of rum.
Cocktail can be decorated with a chocolate crumb and also to add to it puff cookies in the form of a tubule.
In a pan pour in milk, add usual and vanilla sugar and also a cinnamon stick. Warm up mix on average fire. When sugar is dissolved, cool milk. Break eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, shake up yolks the mixer so that they turned white. From milk take out a cinnamon stick, and pour other liquid to eggs and shake up everything together. Once again shift weight in a pan and warm up on slow fire of 5 minutes. Cool and add rum, carefully mix. Serve cocktail for a dessert. To it it is also possible to give ginger breads or cookies.
New Year's cocktail with ice cream
It is required to you: - 200 ml of lemonade; - a sorbet ball (lemon, with taste of mango or another); - several seeds of pomegranate; - syrup grenadine. Pour out lemonade in a high glass. From above put a sorbet ball so that it didn't sink. Water it with a small amount of a grenadine and strew with pomegranate seeds. Serve cocktail with a tubule.