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Spiced Holiday Drink with 7UP TEN: A Quick, Elegant Beverage!

November 3, 2015 · by Tiffany Merritt · 1 Comment

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PassTheTEN #CollectiveBias

Friends, as you start to collect ideas for your Thanksgiving feast this year, please don’t forget the drinks! It’s an area I often overlook because sophisticated drinks tend to take quite a bit of time to pull together, not to mention the fact that I’ll be ingesting plenty of calories on Thanksgiving Day, so I’d rather limit the calories I add by way of a drink.

Do you feel similarly? If so, I want to encourage you to think about offering a different option this year to your guests (or if you are a guest, offering to take this on for the host and hostess!). I have created a special mocktail that I think is just perfect for Thanksgiving. It will wow your crowd without taking much of your time, and it’s free of alcohol! Additionally, since I’m using a TEN™ soda variety (which only have 10 calories per serving) you can trust that nobody will get too full from the drink alone.

holiday spiced 7up mocktail

Holiday Spiced 7UP TEN® Drink

Serves: 4 (easily can be doubled or tripled, though!)

Ingredients:

spiced holiday mocktail 6

  • (1) 2-liter bottle 7UP TEN®
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 small container whole star anise
  • 1 small container whole pink peppercorns
  • 2 lemons
  • several sprigs of fresh thyme

Instructions:

Heat 4 star anise and a heaping tablespoon of pink peppercorns over medium-high heat in a small saucepan for 3 minutes, stirring often. Use some of your broken star anise for this part of the recipe and save your fully intact pieces for later!

spiced holiday mocktail 5 Now reduce the heat to medium and add the water to the pan and allow the water to reduce roughly by half. This took 5 minutes for me.

spiced holiday mocktail 4 Remove the liquid from the heat and then remove the peppercorns and star anise either with a strainer or a slotted spoon. Now add the honey and stir until the honey is completely mixed with the water. This took about 30 seconds for me.

spiced holiday mocktail 3 Once the honey and water are well combined, pour the simple syrup you just made into a container, and add a sprig of thyme to it.

spiced holiday mocktail 1 At this time you should also add roughly 1 Tbsp of lemon juice to the mixture.

spiced holiday mocktail 2 Give it a good stir and allow it to cool down for a few minutes. Remove the sprig of thyme prior to serving.

To the bottom of each glass, add 2 Tbsp of the honey mixture. Then add a few ice cubes, and fill the remainder of the way with 7UP TEN®. Garnish each drink with a slice of lemon on the rim, a sprinkle of pink peppercorns, 1 whole star anise, and a few sprigs of thyme.

spiced holiday 7up mocktail horizontal Isn’t it festive?! And if the adults at your gathering would strongly prefer an alcoholic beverage,  a dash of whiskey will compliment the drink quite well, I assure you. 😉



I hope you love the great taste of this spiced holiday drink, and I hope the crowd you serve it to is dazzled by its beauty, and overjoyed by its humble calorie count thanks to 7UP TEN®. Cheers!

 Coupon Alert!

Great news, friends! Now you can save $1 on TWO (2) 2-Liter bottles of 7UP TEN®, A&W TEN®, Canada Dry TEN®, RC TEN®, Squirt TEN™, or Sunkist® TEN™ You can find the savings here. A great place to pick them up is your nearest Walmart. I found several TEN products on the shelves when I was there earlier this week.

7up TEN location walmart Don’t forget to vote for your favorite TEN recipe and check out these awesome beverage recipes to get more great ideas.  Which one would you most like to serve at your holiday gathering?

Filed Under: The Kitchen · Tagged: 7up coupons, 7up ten, christmas drink recipes, holiday cocktails, holiday drink recipes, holiday drinks, holiday mocktail, mocktail recipes, mocktails recipes, recipes, spiced holiday drink

Bring on the Holiday Cheer (and Hold the Booze!): Great Non-Alcoholic Holiday Drinks

December 9, 2014 · by Tiffany Merritt · 2 Comments

Thanks to Foodie.com for partnering with me to develop this yummy collection of mocktail recipes. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own! 

Check out Holiday Drinks: Hold the Booze

by Tiffany at Foodie.com


One of my favorite items to indulge in at holiday parties are festive drinks! Yes, I enjoy adult beverages, though I have to admit that having more than 1 leaves me feeling a bit…less-than-stellar, shall we say, the next day.

So in the spirit of wanting to get my drink on, minus the spirits, I thought I’d put together a list of completely fabulous holiday drink ideas. These are safe for the entire family and for all of your guest (obviously I don’t know about their allergies, but I do know these are alcohol-free!). No need to worry about anyone driving home from a party at your place.

 

 

Filed Under: The Kitchen · Tagged: christmas, foodie, holiday drinks, mocktails, non alcoholic cocktails, non alcoholic drinks, non-alcoholic holiday drinks

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