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Christmas Coffee Recipes

Christmas Eve Delight (makes 10 cups)

Melt the butter in a small pan of low heat. Stir in the brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Allow mixture to cool and then store in a sealed container in the refrigerator. To serve, put 1 teaspoon of the butter spice, 2 tablespoons cream, 1 strip orange peel, and 1 apple slice into 6 ounces of hot coffee. If desired, add 1/2 to 1 shot of rum.

Christmas/ Holiday Latte (Also known as an Eggnog Latte)

Elves' Coffee Break (makes 4 cups)

Stir the coffee, apple cider, cloves, allspice, brown sugar, in a saucepan and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes. Pour into 4 cups and add a cinnamon stick and orange slice to each cup. Add additional brown sugar if desired.

Santa's Java (makes four cups)

Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise and place it in the bottom of the coffee maker carafe. Brew 3 cups of coffee. While coffee is brewing, whip the cream and brown sugar together. Pour the coffee into four cups and top with the whipped cream mixture. Add one cinnamon stick to each cup. Sprinkle the crushed chocolate on top. Add extra brown sugar if desired.

Winter Coffee

You make a coffee in an Irish coffee glass with the whipped cream on top than you heat up the amaretto with the baileys and the sugar. Serve the coffee on the table and put the flaming alcohol in the glass.

Saint Valentines Coffee Recipes

Amore

Combine one ounce scotch and 1/4 ounce Drambuie into mug. Fill with hot coffee and top with whipped cream.

Mad Lover

Mix one part Bendictine, one part Kahlua, and hot coffee into a mug. Top with whipped cream. Float a dash of Cointreau on the whipped cream.

Saint Valentines' Mix

Moisten the rim of a 13 ounce glass with an orange slice and then dust with cinnamon sugar. Add 1/2 ounce Amaretto, 1/2 ounce Bailey's Original Irish Cream, and 1/2 ounce dark cream de cacao. Fill the glass with coffee and add whipped cream.

Sweet Love

Steam 8 ounces of 2 percent milk. Pour in 2 shots of espresso and 1 - 1/2 oz of chocolate syrup (hazelnut may be substituted). Add whip cream and sprinkle with chocolate.