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Visiting your in-laws may stress you out, but you don’t need alcohol to get through the holidays. Several nonalcoholic drinks can bring joy to your life during the fall and winter seasons.
Holding a virgin cocktail can also ease pressure to drink alcohol if you’re at a social drinking event. Whether you’re in recovery from alcohol addiction or simply looking for a sweet treat, these nonalcoholic beverages can meet your desires.
1. Pecan Pie Milkshake
Start to finish: 10 minutes
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
2 cups vanilla ice cream
1/3 cup milk
1/8 slice cold pecan pie
Whipped cream
Toasted or chopped pecans
Blend ice cream and milk in a blender until the mixture is creamy. Add chunks of pecan pie to the blender and blend until it reaches your desired consistency.
Divide the milkshake into 2 glasses and garnish with whipped cream and chopped pecans.
2. Candy Cane Hot Chocolate
Start to finish: 5 minutes
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 candy cane
3 tablespoons sipping chocolate
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 – 1 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee (regular or decaf)
3 tablespoons water
Whipped cream
Mix instant coffee into water.
In a sauce pan, mix milk and heavy cream and warm over low heat. Stir in a candy cane until melted. Add sipping chocolate and pure vanilla extract and stir.
Remove from heat and add the sauce pan contents to the instant coffee mixture. Garnish with whipped cream.
3. Cinnamon Coffee
Start to finish: 5 minutes
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
3/4 cup ground coffee (regular or decaf)
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
6 cups water
Whipped cream
Add ground coffee, brown sugar and ground cinnamon to the basket of your coffee maker. Add water to the coffee maker. Add pure vanilla extract to an empty coffee pot.
Brew coffee. Divide into 6 cups and garnish with whipped cream.
4. Moscow Mule Mocktail
Start to finish: 2 minutes
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
1 lime
1 ounce lime juice
1/2 tablespoon ginger syrup
1 tablespoon pineapple juice
Ginger beer (nonalcoholic)
Ice
Pour lime juice, ginger syrup and pineapple juice into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until the mixture is chilled.
Strain the mixture into a glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer and garnish with a slice of lime.
5. Virgin Mojito
Start to finish: 5 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
4 sprigs of fresh mint leaves
4 tablespoons simple syrup
2 limes
Sparkling water
Ice
Cut the limes into slices.
Muddle lime and mint leaves in each glass.
Add simple syrup to each glass and fill them with ice. Fill each glass with sparkling water and stir. Garnish each glass with a mint leaf.
6. Virgin White Margaritas
Start to finish: 5 minutes
Servings: 3–4
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups ice cubes
1 cup coconut milk
1/3 cup lime juice
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
Sliced limes
Add ice, coconut milk, lime juice and granulated sugar to a blender. Blend until the mixture reaches your desired consistency.
Divide into three to four cups and garnish with sliced limes.
7. Nonalcoholic Apple Cider
Start to finish: 3 hours and 15 minutes
Servings: 6–8
Ingredients:
8–10 apples (mix of types)
1/2 – 1 cup sugar
4 tablespoons cinnamon
4 tablespoons allspice
Water
Cut apples into quarters.
Add apple quarters to a large pot. Fill the pot with water high enough to cover the apples. Add sugar to the pot.
Wrap cinnamon and allspice in a doubled-up cheesecloth and tie it. Add to it the pot.
Boil uncovered for one hour.
Lower heat, cover and let simmer for two hours
Remove spices. Mash apples. Remove from heat.
Once cool, strain the mixture into a large bowl. Place the apple pulp in a doubled-up cheesecloth and squeeze the juice from the cheesecloth into a bowl. Reheat the cider in a microwave or on a stovetop before serving.
8. Nonalcoholic Eggnog
Start to finish: 3 hours and 10 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
2 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream
Whipped cream
Add milk, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla extract in a saucepan. Slowly bring the mixture to low boil over low heat.
Whisk egg yolks with sugar in a bowl.
Slowly add the saucepan mixture to the egg yolk bowl and whisk until the ingredients are combined. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook on medium heat until it thickens.
Remove from heat. Add heavy cream and stir.
Refrigerate until chilled. Divide into cups and garnish with whipped cream and cinnamon (optional).
For people in recovery from alcohol addiction, tasting a mocktail or virgin cocktail can remind them of alcoholic beverages and trigger cravings. These people should avoid drinking refreshments that are similar to alcoholic beverages that they consumed during active addiction.
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Chris Elkins worked as a journalist for three years and was published by multiple newspapers and online publications. Since 2015, he’s written about health-related topics, interviewed addiction experts and authored stories of recovery. Chris has a master’s degree in strategic communication and a graduate certificate in health communication.
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