Christmas season is my family’s favorite season of the year. Officially, we start the 1st of November by decorating the house on the inside and outside. Both my kids and my husband are the biggest Christmas fans I know. Sometimes that enthusiasm is a little overwhelming for me. To settle my racing heart, I like to make me this delicious holiday whiskey drink. Believe me seeing about 20 elves or more, a large snowman family of 5, plus Santa Clause twice as tall as me sitting in front of our house can definitely be overwhelming ?.

Spiced Winter Blizzard: What I love the most about that holiday whiskey drink recipe

• I only need a couple of ingredients.
• The drink is ready to drink in a couple of minutes.
• The recipe is perfect for beginner home bartenders.
• It can be made for a crowd too.
• The recipe is adjustable.
• The flavors are incredible.
• It’s for people who like their drinks a little sweeter.
• Its an icredible whiskey cocktail recipe. One of my favorte holiday drinks.

Spiced Winter Blizzard- What you need for my super simple drink recipe

Jack Daniel’s Honey

• Jack Daniel’s Honey – When you drink that flavored whiskey straight, you will notice that it doesn’t have that artificial flavor many flavored whiskeys have but a light, sweet, honeyed flavor plus a rich taste of Jack Daniel’s signature Whiskey Old No. 7.
• Apple cider and tangerine juice – Fall and winter are the high seasons for delicious apple desserts and eating your fill of tangerines. Because these two fruits are typical for that particular season I wanted to add these flavors to my drink too—the sweetness of non alcoholic apple cider or natural cloudy apple juice and the tangy flavor of tangerines.
• Spiced homemade simple syrup -My simple syrup is easy to make and keeps in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. I added our homemade Pumpkin spice blend to it. This, in my opinion, contains so many warm and delicious spices, which makes it a fabulous addition to the honey, apple, and tangerine flavors.

Simple drink – with lots of flavor

I’m a simple drink recipe lover. I hate when a drink takes me more than 5 minutes to put together. That’s why Im really into this spiced winter Blizzard.

The only thing you need to do is throw all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker or a glass with a lid, take whatever you have at hand, add some ice cubes, shake, strain into to champagne glasses add some decoration and enjoy your delicious holiday drink.

I first encountered Jack Daniel’s Honey a couple of weeks ago, which immediately stoked my interest. The bottle has the signature appearance, of course, but written on the bottle was:”A blend of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey and a unique honey liqueur of our own making, for a taste that’s one-of-a-kind and unmistakably Jack. ” Sounds great, right?

Substitution for Jack Daniel’s Honey

If you can’t find a honey-flavored whiskey, add a teaspoon of honey to your spiced simple syrup. No worries here. The drink will still taste great.

Spiced winter whiskey drink for a crowd

I leave you the recipe for a pitcher full of that spiced Winter Blizzard here. In case you would like to make that whiskey drink in a higher quantity ?.

• 300ml Jack Daniel’s Honey
• 200ml apple cider (or clouded apple juice) – or if you like it a little stronger use hard apple cider
• 200ml freshly squeezed tangerine juice
• 50ml or 1/4 cup homemade spiced simple syrup
• 1 1/2 cup ice cubes

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If you make this Spiced Winter Blizzard made, which totally is the most delicious festive holiday cocktail ever, please make sure to leave me some kind words and give the recipe a rating. What I love the most is hearing from you guys. Let me know what you think about it. and of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to also tag us on Instagram ?. Seeing your photos making our recipes, is our favorite thing to do?.

Big warm honey hug Nina

Here is the recipe for our homemade pumpkin spice seasoning.

Spiced Winter Blizzard – a holiday whiskey drinks recipe / 2 glasses

4 from 56 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: cocktails, Drinks, festive drinks, holiday drinksCuisine: American

Servings

2

Prep time

5

minutes

Cooking time

2

minutes

Calories

230

kcal

Total time

7

minutes

The spiced winter blizzard is an easy drinks recipe made with Jack Daniels Whiskey Honey, apple cider, freshly squeezed tangerine juice and homemade spiced simple syrup.

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Ingredients

• Spiced winter blizzard

• 120 ml 120 Jack Daniels Honey about 4 oz

• 90 ml 90 apple cider about 3 oz

• 90 ml 90 tangerine juice freshly squeezed, about 3 oz

• 30 ml 30 spiced simple syrup about 1 oz

• 1/3 cup 1/3 ice cubes

• Homemade spiced simple syrup

• 200 g 200 white sugar

• 200 g 200 water

• 2 tbsp 2 pumpkin spice seasoning

• For Garnish for each glass

• 1 1 apple slice 1/2 inch thick cut 2 times lenght wise but not all the way through.

• 1 1 tangerine zest

• 1 1 star anis

Directions

• Homemade spiced simple syrup
• Whisk all ingredients together in a small pot.
• Bring to a boil for 3-5 min.
• take the pot from the oven and let it cool completely.
• Store in a screwed bottle for up to 2 weeks in the fridge.
• Spiced Winter blizzard
• Put all ingredients for the drink into a shaker or a jar with a screw lid and shake for 1 minute.
• Pour into 2 champagne coupe.
• Garnish with the apple slices, the tangerine zest , 1 star anis each glass

Notes

• Substitution: If you can’t find a honey-flavored whiskey, add a teaspoon of honey to your spiced simple syrup. No worries here. The drink will still taste great.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 230kcal
• Carbohydrates: 21g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 1g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Sodium: 11mg
• Potassium: 126mg
• Sugar: 20g
• Vitamin A: 114IU
• Vitamin C: 14mg
• Calcium: 8mg
• Iron: 1mg

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Every spring Im waiting for our lilac bushes to finally blossom. Some years they blossom at the beginning of May but most of the time it’s already the beginning of June . We have 2 lilac bushes growing in our garden. I planted them about 10 years ago and for about 5 years there are enough blossom stems to make a syrup out of them.

How to make Homemade lilac simple syrup

Its super simple- You only need 4 things.

• sugar
• water
• Lilac flowers
• lemon juice

Recipe for 1 Liter:

Ingredients:

• 750g water
• 750g white sugar
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 16 lilac flower stems

Directions:

• First give your lilac flower stems a good shake so that all the bugs are gone.
• In medium sized pot mix together the sugar and water and bring it to a boil. Set aside after that.
• Now add the lemon juice and all the lilac blossoms but without the stems to the hot syrup
• I let everything steep for 24 hours.
• After the 24hours I strain everything through a sieve and a linen. Bring everything to a boil once more for about 5 minutes and fill it in a bottle with a tight lid.
• Keep it in your fridge after opening it.

Things you can use your homemade lilac simple syrup for.

• First of all you can use it for a lot of backed goods for flavouring. I love to soak a lemony sweet loaf with lilac syrup. So good.
• You can flavour lemonades too but since I can’t make many bottles of that syrup my kids get lilac lemonades only on special occasions
• It’s great for drinks like a lilac mojito or my favourite cocktail “Lilac blossom Margarita”

I hope you will enjoy my lilac simple syrup as much as I do . It’s one of my favorite things I’m looking forward to every spring.

Sweet hugs Nina

If you enjoyed my homemade lilac simple syrup recipe you may enjoy my recipe for homemade elderflower syrup too.

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Tell me, are you one of these persons who are excited about fall to start all summer long just because you badly want a pumpkin spice latte fron your local Starbucks? Because I know you are. It’s my favourite time of the year too. Therefore I decided to dedicate one of our recipes to a homemade pumpkin spice syrup. I don’t get this delicious coffee beverage here in Austria.

Pumpkin spice syrup is one of my favourite pumpkin recipes

The recipe is fairly easy because you only need 3 main key ingredients:

• Water
• white sugar, you can us coconut sugar or brown sugar instead of it but the syrup will get a darker brownish coloring
• and pumpkin, my favourite ist hokkaido.
• The spices can very. The perfect match for the syrup would be our homemade Pumpkin Spice but if you only have some of the spices at home add at least cinnamon and nutmeg.

Enjoy the fall season with your own cup of homemade pumpkin spice latte. It’s much better than the one you get at Starbucks and you definitely know what went into it.

Warm cinnamonly hugs

Nina

Homemade Pumpkin Spice Syrup

5 from 7 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: coffee, Dessert, DrinksCuisine: American

Servings

25

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

10

minutes

Calories

50

kcal

Total time

30

minutes

This is an easy and fast recipe for Homemade Pumpkin Spice Syrup. Its made in under 30 minutes and only has 3 main key ingredients and some spices which can be variete.

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Ingredients

• 400 ml 400 water

• 300 ml 300 white sugar

• 200 g 200 pumpkin Hokkaido , peeled, cored and cute into small chunks

• 1,5 tbsp 1,5 Pumpkin spice We used our homemade pumpkin spice

Directions

• Homemade Pumpkin Spice Syrup
• Put the water, sugar and pumpkin chunks into a medium pot and cook until the pumpkin chunks are tender.After the pumpkin chunks are tender add the pumpkin spice and let cool for 10 minutes.Blend everything until very fine.If you like you can strain your syrup before filling it into bottles but it's not absolutely necessary.You can keep the syrup for up to 2 weeks in your fridge.Its perfect as a adding to your coffee, hot chocolate, fall drinks, pancakes toppinng and much more.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 50kcal
• Carbohydrates: 13g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 1g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Sodium: 1mg
• Potassium: 29mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 12g
• Vitamin A: 681IU
• Vitamin C: 1mg
• Calcium: 4mg
• Iron: 1mg

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One of my most beautiful childhood memories are from me and my mom picking elderflowers every spring and making delicious syrup with it. I loved these walkings with her where we talked about everything and nothing. There is nothing more freeing than a walk through the woods with your hero mom

Now 30 years later I’m the one roaming through the woods with my kids, looking for elderflower bushes and talking and joking with my kids the whole way long. I love these moments with my kids int centres me immensely.

I’m always enjoying my time with my kids and what they love the most in spring is picking elderflowers from the bushes.

Elderflower Syrup – The Recipe

For the beginning it’s good to know what you need for 1Kg Sugar.

• 1 KG sugar
• 0,75litre water
• 25g powdered citric acid, the acid will make sure that the syrup will stay durable
• about 15 big elderflower stems
• a large pot with lit
• a large sieve
• a cheese cloth or kitchen towel
• reusable glass bottles

First things first!

So for 1kg sugar you get about 1,5 litres of syrup that’s why I work at least with 2kg of sugar.

• First you shake the flower stems out and make sure that all small animals are gone .
• Pour the sugar, water and citric acid into a deep pod, mix everything together and bring everything to a boil
• Under constant staring boil the sugar- water liquid until its clear
• Stir in the elderflower stems and put a lid onto the pot
• Leave everything for about 48 hours and stir every once in a while
• After the 48 hours take another large pot put the sieve on top and spread the cheese cloth above the sieve
• Strain the elderflower syrup trough the sieve and squeeze the excessive liquid from the cloth
• Bring the strained syrup to a boil and boil it for about 3 minutes
• Fill everything into reusable glass bottles put the lid on it and let everything cool
• store the bottles in a cool dark place

*note: Make sure that you sterilise the bottles either trough cooking them in boiling water for a couple of minutes or put them into the oven at 200°Celsius for 10 minutes. Please remove the plastic lids before sterilising otherwise the plastic parts will melt. The bottles will be extremely hot, please see to it that your kids are not around when you do this working process or the filling of the bottles.

What to do with your homemade syrup

Elderflower syrup mixed into ice cold water is my kids favourite summer drink but there are other things too where you can use it in.

• Flavoured elderflower iced tea
• Elderflower gin tonic
• elderflower cream brûlée
• as a topping on pancakes and french toast
• elderflower cream cheese frosting
• and there are many more things you can use elderflower syrup for

I hope you will enjoy my recipe for our homemade elderflower syrup as much as me and my kids! I will always have fond childhood memories when the elderflowers bloom.

If you did enjoy my recipe and made a lot of elderflower syrup we would be more than thrilled if you tag us on Instagram . We are more than happy to share your achievements in one of our stories.

Sugary hugs and kisses

Nina

You may also be interested in one of our sweet treat recipes.

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