Winter Wonderland Margarita (Gingerbread Cocktail)
Get festive this season with the Winter Wonderland Margarita! Crafted with tasty ingredients like tequila, orange liqueur, creamy coconut milk, and a cozy homemade gingerbread syrup.
If you love holiday cocktails, you’ll want to try my Frostbite Christmas Margarita (Pomegranate Tequila Cocktail) and Snow Globe Collins Cocktail.
I partnered with Cenote Tequila to make the Winter Wonderland Margarita. Recipe and ideas are my own.
This creamy cocktail mixes together fun and festive ingredients like Cenote Tequila, orange liqueur, coconut milk, lime juice, and a delicious homemade gingerbread syrup for a smooth and seasonal margarita.
Cenote Tequila is made with ultra-pure volcanic mineral water and filtered through proprietary activated coconut charcoal filters before bottling, which allows the true flavors of the hand-picked agave to really shine through. This tequila boasts a complex flavor profile that balances fragrant cooked agave with delicate earthy notes making it the perfect spirit to mix with since it balances beautifully with fresh and bright notes.
Cenote Tequila is inspired by the beauty of the Yucatán Peninsula located in Mexico. The cenotes are spectacular underground water systems found throughout the region.
Recipe Ingredients
- Tequila Blanco: You want a high quality tequila and Cenote Tequila Blanco is a premium 100% agave tequila, packed with bright citrus and pepper on the nose. Continuous flavor of rich, cooked agave, spices, subtle wood, and green vegetables, are a result of mellowing the spirit in American Oak barrels for three weeks.
- Cointreau or triple sec: I like Cointreau in this recipe but you can use another triple sec or Grand Marnier.
- Canned coconut milk: Use your preferred brand of canned coconut milk or cream of coconut. Cream of coconut has added sugar, so will result in a sweeter cocktail.
- Lime juice: Fresh squeezed lime juice is best.
- Sugar: Granulated sugar is the base of the gingerbread syrup and is used to rim your cocktail glass. Alternatively, you can use brown sugar or maple syrup to make the gingerbread syrup.
- Gingerbread spice tea bags: Gingerbread spice tea bags make the gingerbread syrup super easy to make. Look for an herbal tea bag with ginger, cinnamon, and spices.
- Cinnamon: Use ground cinnamon for the cinnamon sugar rim for your cocktail glass.
- Gingerbread house cookie & rosemary: Optionally, garnish this creamy margarita with a fun gingerbread house cookie and a sprig of rosemary.
Tools & Equipment List
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How to Make This Recipe
Step 1: Make the gingerbread syrup – It can be made in advance and refrigerated until ready to use. Add sugar and water to a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, while stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar. Remove from the heat and add in your gingerbread spice tea bags. Steep for 5 minutes and remove tea bags. Allow to cool then store in an airtight container.
Step 2: Prep your cocktail glass – Add sugar and cinnamon to a shallow dish and stir to combine. Use a lime slice to coat the rim of the cocktail glass and submerge it in the cinnamon sugar mixture until coated.
Step 3: To a cocktail shaker – Add tequila, triple sec, coconut milk, lime juice, and the homemade gingerbread syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled and strain the cocktail mixture into the prepared cocktail glass over ice. If desired, garnish with a gingerbread house cookie, rosemary sprig and star anise.
P.S. Want to make this a batch cocktail?! Multiply the cocktail ingredients and blend them up in a blender with a handful of ice and serve over ice!
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Tips for Making a Winter Wonderland Margarita
- Shake A LOT and vigorously to really incorporate the coconut milk, otherwise you will have separation.
- Use canned coconut milk and shake or blend the contents of the can before using. If you use cream of coconut, there will be added sweetener so adjust to your liking.
- Mocktail version: Eliminate tequila and orange liqueur. Add 2 oz coconut water and 1 oz fresh orange juice.
- Batch cocktail: Multiply the cocktail ingredients and blend them in a blender with a handful of ice. Divide into glasses over ice.
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Winter Wonderland Margarita
Ingredients
For the Gingerbread Syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 gingerbread spice herbal tea bags
For the cocktail
- 1½ oz blanco tequila , I used Cenote Tequila Blanco
- ½ oz orange liqueur, like triple sec, Cointreau or Grand Marnier
- 1 oz canned coconut milk
- 1 lime, juiced
- ½ oz gingerbread syrup
- Gingerbread house cookie, for garnish
- Rosemary, for garnish
- ½ tbsp sugar, for rim
- ¼ tsp cinnamon, for rim
Equipment
- Shallow dish
- Small saucepan
- Wooden spoon
- Airtight container or mason jar
Instructions
For the Gingerbread Syrup
- Add sugar and water to a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally to dissolve sugar.
- Remove from heat and add tea bags. Steep for 5 minutes and remove tea bags. Allow to cool. Then store in an airtight container.
For the cocktail
- Add sugar and cinnamon to a small shallow dish and combine. Prepare a cocktail glass by coating the rim with lime juice and submerging in the cinnamon sugar mixture until coated.
- Add tequila, orange liqueur, coconut milk, lime juice and gingerbread syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled.
- Strain cocktail mixture into prepared cocktail glass over ice. If desired, garnish with a gingerbread house cookie, rosemary sprig and star anise.
Notes
- Shake A LOT and vigorously to really incorporate the coconut milk, otherwise you will have separation.
- Use canned coconut milk and shake or blend the contents of the can before using. If you use cream of coconut, there will be added sweetener so adjust to your liking.
- Mocktail version: Eliminate tequila and orange liqueur. Add 2 oz coconut water and 1 oz fresh orange juice.
- Batch cocktail: Multiply the cocktail ingredients and blend them in a blender with a handful of ice. Divide into glasses over ice.
