Serve up the perfect seasonal cocktail

Holiday parties are particularly festive affairs. When welcoming loved ones at home this holiday season, hosts can consider some seasonal staples and craft a unique cocktail guests won’t soon forget.

Pumpkin might be more synonymous with fall than winter, but cinnamon certainly has a place on holiday season dinner tables. This recipe for a “Pumpkin Martini Cocktail With Cinnamon” from Lines+Angles combines staple flavors of fall and winter into a delicious drink holiday celebrants will love.

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Pumpkin Martini Cocktail With Cinnamon

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons maple syrup

1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs

5 ounces pumpkin spice liqueur

2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream

2 ounces vodka

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cinnamon sticks

DIRECTIONS

Pour the maple syrup in a saucer and put the graham cracker crumbs in a separate saucer. Dip the rims of 2 chilled martini glasses first into the syrup, then into the graham cracker crumbs.

Fill a shaker with ice and add the pumpkin spice liqueur, Baileys, vodka, and vanilla extract. Shake for 15 seconds and strain between the prepared glasses. Garnish each with a cinnamon stick. Serves 2.