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The perfect gift for the cocktail-lover on your listing: Cocktails in a jar, made easily with a variety of dried fruits, spices, and other ingredients.

Cocktails in a jar: Make your own DIY cocktail jars to give as a gift!

I LOVE making homemade gifts for the holidays – and my souvenir recipients dearest to receive them. If y'all're looking for the perfect gift for the cocktail lover on your gift list, here'southward a fun idea for you lot: Cocktails in a jar!

I go on seeing similar products in gift shops for $xx-$25 a jar, and figured information technology would exist an easy (and much cheaper!) to make them at home.

These cost less than $5 to make.

Cocktail in a jar: Dry your own fruit (or buy dried fruit) and learn how to make DIY cocktails in a jar.

How To Make A Festive Erstwhile Fashioned In A Jar

I made a Festive Quondam Fashioned mix by including the following ingredients:

  • Dehydrated orange slices
  • Dehydrated raspberries (dehydrated cherries will likewise work)
  • Dehydrated cranberries (only a few – they're tart!)
  • Cinnamon stick
  • Sugar cubes

I also included a small jar of Jack Daniel's so my recipients literally had all the ingredients they needed to brand an Quondam Fashioned.

DIY cocktails in a jar: Make a great gift!

How To Make Other Cocktails-In-A-Jar

The beginning thing you demand to know about making your own cocktails in a jar is that at that place are SO MANY options for what to fill your jars with. A variety of fruits, spices, and seasonings will work (with the addition of sweeteners, in many cases).

You can play mixologist in include a diversity of different ingredients:

  • Dehydrated fruit (orange, lemon, grapefruit, pineapple, apples, cherries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, cranberries, pears, apricots, etc.)
  • Spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg – don't go overboard!)
  • Other ingredients (rosemary, lemon thyme, lavender, rose petals, dehydrated ginger)
  • Carbohydrate cubes (look for turbinado/Sugar In The raw sugar cubes)

DIY cocktails in a jar: Dried fruit and spices + alcohol = a homemade cocktail at home!

Other Cocktail Recipe Combinations

  • Pear-ginger: Dehydrated pears, ginger, cinnamon + spiced rum + sweetened pear juice
  • Sangria: Dehydrated apples, oranges, and lemon + sugar cubes + a canteen of red vino
  • Mimosas: Dehydrated oranges + a bottle of champagne + fresh orangish juice
  • Fruit punch: Dehydrated oranges, pineapple, apples, pears (and other fruit) + a bottle of vodka + sweetener (simple syrup or sugar cubes)
  • Cosmopolitan: Dehydrated lime and cranberries + a bottle of vodka + cranberry juice
  • Spiced cider: Dehydrated oranges and apples + cinnamon and clove + a canteen of bourbon

Don't forget the mixers! Adding tonic h2o, guild soda, fruit juice, etc., with plough these mixers into cocktails!

Tips For Making Infused Cocktails In A Jar

  • Organic ingredients: Await for organic ingredients since yous are infusing them in booze. Everything you infuse – pesticides, chemicals, etc. – will end up in the final product.
  • Booze: Model your cocktail-in-a-jar after your favorite drink, using the most appropriate/obvious booze associated with that cocktail. For the Onetime Fashioned, I used Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey. For sangria, for example, use red vino paired with dehydrated fruits such every bit apples, oranges, and lemons.
  • Infusion time: Infuse alcohol in the jar filled with ingredients for iii or more than days.
  • Strain out ingredients: Make sure to strain out all of the dried fruit/spices/other ingredients before consuming.
  • Dehydrate your ain fruit: To salve coin, dehydrate your own fruit instead of ownership it at the grocery shop.
  • Warning! Infused alcohol is really stiff. These are basically pure booze with the flavors and essences of any you're soaking. You tin can use these infused alcohol recipes as mixers.

Ingredients

  • four belly button oranges, cut into ane/2-inch slides
  • 12 ounces fresh raspberries
  • 1/ii cup fresh cranberries
  • 2 cinnamon sticks, cut in one-half
  • 12 turbinado sugar cubes

Instructions

  1. Use dehydrator to dehydrate oranges, raspberries, and cranberries. Fourth dimension will vary depending on your dehydrator and thickness of fruit.
  2. Distributed dried fruit, cinnamon sticks, and sugar cubes evenly amongst 4 pint-sized mason jars.
  3. Pair stonemason jars with 375 ml bottles of Jack Daniels or your preferred bourbon or whiskey.
  4. Instructions to brand cocktails. Pour bourbon/whiskey into mason jar and permit to infuse for 3 or more days. Before serving, remove fruit & spices and strain to ensure no solids remain. Serve on water ice garnished with cocktail cherries.