5 warm drinks that will make your Autumn cozy

Autumn is no time to lie alone, especially when the October leaves blow over the pavement in such manner as to make anyone standing there seem fixed to a sliding sidewalk. When the trees overhead make the great sound of letting down their dry rain like being baptized in burning tears. When the cool autumn air goes well with books, blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of your favorite warm beverage. There are lots of things to like about the changing season. But nothing as special as heating your fingers to a warm cup, and these soothing heated drinks may be exactly what you need to turn your cocktail hour cozy.

Drunken Rum Hot Apple Cider

Ingredients

1 ounce Kill Devil Rum
1 ounce Fonseca 10yr Tawny Port
3 Dashes of Angostura Bitters
4 ounce Hot Apple Cider
1 Scoop of Pumpkin Butter (which can be found at your local grocery store)Garnish: Gummy Candy Corn

Directions

Combine the Kill Devil Rum, port, Angostura Bitters, apple cider and pumpkin butter in a glass. Stir well.
Garnish with gummy candy corn.

Bourbon-Spiked Hot Apple Cider

Ingredients

16 ounces of apple cider
2 cinnamon sticks
2 cloves
2 black peppercorns
1 star anise
8 ounces of bourbon
Ground cinnamon in shaker for sprinkling
4 apple slices

Directions

Place apple cider, cinnamon sticks, cloves, black peppercorns, and star anise in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer.
Immediately, strain the mixture into 4 mugs, divided evenly.
Top with bourbon.
Sprinkle a small amount of cinnamon on top of each and garnish with an apple slice.

Hot Pumpkin Pie Cocktail

Ingredients

4 cups milk
2 cups Cinnamon Vanilla Bailey’s Irish Cream
½ cup vanilla or pumpkin pie vodka
1 can pumpkin puree
1 and ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Cool whip for topping

Directions

Boil the milk, Irish Cream, and vodka in a large pot.
Once boiling, turn down the heat to low and stir in the pumpkin puree and pumpkin spice. Viola!
Serve hot in your favorite tumbler and garnish with whipped cream.

Autumn Mulled Wine

Ingredients

750ml bottle of dry red wine
1 orange, sliced into rounds
8 whole cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
2 star anise
2-4 tbs sugar, honey, or maple syrup
¼ cup brandy

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan over medium-high heat.
Bring to a low simmer (be careful not to boil or you’ll boil off the alcohol).
Reduce heat to medium-low and cover.
Let the wine simmer at least 15 minutes or up to 3 hours.
Strain and serve hot.

Cinnamon Tequila Hot Toddy

Ingredients

3/4 oz cinnamon bark syrup*
(1.5) oz Hornitos Black Barrel Tequila
5 parts hot water
1/4 oz honey
1/4 oz fresh lemon juice
(3) dashes vanilla bitters
Cinnamon sticks

Directions

Cinnamon Bark Syrup: Combine equal parts sugar and water and 3 cinnamon sticks in a saucepan and bring to a boil to create cinnamon bark syrup. Remove cinnamon sticks.

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Edward Mugarian

Editor of Halloween Living Magazine, and a Detroit, Michigan native. After earning a B.A. in English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Ed pursued opportunities in public relations and management that helped mold him personally and professionally, developing his skills in writing and editing, marketing and advertising, public speaking and media relations. As well as broadening his experience in administrative leadership. In addition, he pursued film and special effects makeup programs in both Detroit and Los Angeles and worked on set as a special effects make-up artist. His passion for being a Halloween and horror film “geek” have been a constant throughout his life - cutting his teeth on the extraordinary works of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, and the great Shirley Jackson. His youth was spent hustling through haunted houses, and seeing the latest 70’s & 80’s horror films at the midnight drive-ins and local movie houses. He's also an avid horror film and movie memorabilia collector. One could say, he's autumn over summer. Pumpkins over pineapples. Horror over drama; and wearing black over anything else.