Your fried turkey has met its match!
Spice up your Thanksgiving table (or bar) with these festive bourbon-forward recipes. We’re pulling on our stretchy pants as we speak!
Cocktails:
The most obvious, but never under-appreciated way to bring some bourbon to the festivities is with cocktails of course! Whether you keep it spicy or keep it sweet your guests are sure to be pleased!
- Cinnamon Bourbon Old Fashioned – Homemade cinnamon-spiced rosemary simple syrup, mixed with warming bourbon, sweet orange slices, and sparkling water have fall written all over it.
- Thanksgiving Cranberry Apple Sangria – For a more wine inclined crowd, try this sangria bursting with fall flavors like cranberry, citrus, apple, and cinnamon.
- Bourbon & Spiced Pear Cocktail – Fancy, fruity, and fall-forward, this drink features juiced pears, fresh sage and thyme, and toasty, bitter notes of orange peel, allspice, and cinnamon.
- Spiced Persimmon Bourbon Old Fashioned (pictured) – Made with a spiced maple persimmon puree, bourbon, sweet clementine juice, and a couple of dashes of bitters, this festive orange cocktail is as beautiful as it is tasty.
- Bourbon Spiked Apple Cider Mimosas – You can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning… These apple cider mimosas will get the day started on the right foot.
Sides:
The turkey may be the star, but we know everyone is there for the sides…
- Crispy Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Bourbon Maple Butter – Think a classic sweet potato casserole simplified into cute little smashed sweet potato rounds.
- Sweet Kentucky Bourbon Corn Pudding – Okay, so this could technically be a summer dish as well, but there’s something so comforting about warm corn pudding spiked with a little bourbon.
Desserts:
Satisfy your sweet tooth, and your love of the good stuff with these oh-so-tasty bourbon-centric delicacies.
- Salted Bourbon Apple Crumb Cake – Desert or boozy breakfast treat…who’s to say!? This Salted Bourbon Apple Crumble Coffee Cake is fall baked up into a sweet little cake, infused with warming autumn spices, bourbon, and swirled with crisp autumn apples.
- Brown Butter Bourbon Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies – Made with browned butter, toasted pecans, and bourbon, then lightly sweetened for a cookie that’s rich in flavor and heavy on the chocolate.
