10 Festive Mocktails To Sip Throughout The Holiday Season

The Speckled Palate’s Sparkling Ginger Cranberry Mocktail combines all the festive flavors of the season: cranberry, ginger, and orange. It’s best topped off with some extra cranberries. You can sweeten it even more for kids by adding a bit of orange or apple juice, and if you don’t have the ginger beer the recipe calls for, ginger ale works just fine, too.

The Cran-Ras refresher from @holisticrendezvous contains exactly what it sounds like it would: cranberries and raspberries. It’s topped with Spindrift’s CranRas sparkling water for a bit of fizz, and the fun (and optional) part is the special ice cubes that have whole berries and sage leaves frozen within them.

This blood orange mocktail mule crafted by The Speckled Palate is perfect for a citrus lover. It has blood orange juice and lime, but is balanced with ginger beer. You can make it in a copper mug or show off its color in a clear glass.

Now here’s a mocktail that even the ladies from Sex and the City would approve of: a Christmas virgin Cosmopolitan, created by The Mindful Mocktail. With its perfect red color and sugar rim, it kind of looks like Santa’s hat flipped upside down.

The original recipe for this Christmas punch by Five Heart Home contains alcohol, so if you have guests who might want that, you could always make the original and the alcohol-free version so everyone can enjoy the festive flavors. Just scroll about halfway down on the page for the mocktail recipe. This has pomegranate and cranberry juice, as well as ice made of juice so it won’t get watered down.

Instead of champagne and orange juice, this 1 Minute Christmas Mimosa Mocktail recipe employs non-alcoholic sparkling wine and cranberry juice. The color of this drink from The Mindful Mocktail blogger really makes it stand out — plus, it will match your holiday decor.

It might be hard to achieve the picture perfect version of this Whoville Spiced Up Non-Alcoholic Christmas Punch that’s featured on Half Baked Harvest, but that doesn’t mean it will be hard to make it taste delicious — especially when it has so many delicious flavors like orange, vanilla, cinnamon and more. Scroll all the way down for the mocktail version of the recipe.

Chica morada is a fruity and flavorful punch that’s enjoyed throughout Perú. This chica morada recipe crafted by A Cozy Kitchen calls for sliced apples, pineapples, cinnamon, and other delicious ingredients. It may look like wine, but it doesn’t contain any alcohol.

If you’re a fan of a pink drink, this Easy Pomegranate Pear Spritz Mocktail by Simply Delicious Food is for you. It has cranberry juice and pears, which are festive because of the “partridge in a pear tree.”

Eggnog is a big tradition for some, and it’s possible to have it without the alcohol. This non-alcoholic Eggnog recipe from Simply Scratch has to chill overnight, so be sure to factor that into your holiday preparation.