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Every good party needs a great cocktail, and this Holiday Pear Sangria is just that. It’s my favorite festive drink to serve up this season. White wine mixed with pear brandy, fresh pears, cranberries, winter citrus, spices, and a splash of ginger beer. It’s sweet, refreshing, so easy to make, and perfect for all holiday parties.
This post is sponsored by Harry & David.
To celebrate the season, I recently traveled to New York City to host a very fun and special holiday event and cookbook signing with Harry & David. I walked everyone through how I create the perfect holiday cheese board, signed books, and chatted the night away. It was so fun to get meet some of you in person, and to hear your stories of how you came to find me and Half Baked Harvest. It was truly such a special night. I’m SO grateful for all of you who continue to read and make HBH recipes in your kitchen.
As mentioned, I teamed up with Harry & David to create a festive holiday cheese board. To go along with it, I created this sweet pear sangria you see here. Both of which were served at the event. This sangria is one of my favorites, it’s great for easy holiday entertaining!
To make this sweet pear sangria, simply mix white wine with a little apple or pear brandy, then add in seasonal fruits like pears, cranberries, and winter citrus. I love topping my sangria off with ginger beer for a nice spicy kick. So delicious and refreshing.
You can make this up to couple of days ahead, perfect for the busy hostess.
Since not all of you could attend the event in NYC I wanted to share some photos. I’d also like to gift one reader a Gift Basket and a 12 Month delivery to the Fruit of the Month Club!
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Good luck and enjoy this delicious holiday pear sangria!
Holiday Pear Sangria
Servings: 8
Calories Per Serving: 257 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
- 1 (750 ml) bottle dry white wine (I used Harry & David Pinot Gris)
- 1/2 cup pear or apple brandy
- 1/3 cup cranberry or pomegranate juice
- 1 cup apple cider
- 2 Royal Riviera Pears, sliced
- 2 blood oranges, sliced
- 1 cup fresh cranberries
- 1/4 cup candied ginger
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1-2 (12 ounce) ginger beers
Instructions
- 1. In a large pitcher, combine all the ingredients except the ginger beer. Stir and then place in the fridge until chilled. 2. Before serving, add the ginger beer. Fill each glass with ice and pour the sangria over the ice. If desired top with more ginger beer. Drink up!
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This post was originally published on December 17, 2018
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Waking up early and playing cards with my mom while we wait for everyone else to wake up. I love that little time of calm and anticipation before the busyness of the day starts.
My parents have a set of old Christmas albums that came in a blue box. I think they’re older than me and probably were bought through an ad on TV. Every year they play those records. I always look forward to that.
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Baked Alaska on Christmas Eve and Pictionary with my family where we make our own clues.
My favorite holiday tradition is to sit around a fire early Christmas morning and eat home-baked mesquite cinnamon rolls!
I love baking holiday cookies and enjoying family dinners!
Making Christmas cookies with my family. We make gingerbread, baklava, pecan cookies, chocolate cherry thumbprints and more every year!!
Favorite Christmas tradition- Me and all of my sisters plus all of their kids going over to my mom and dad’s to make very ugly but delicious sugar cookies with way too many toppings!
My favorite holiday tradition is making homemade eggnog with my cousins. It’s soooo good and we only do it on Christmas Day!
My entire extended family gets together on Christmas Eve. Every family brings a pot of soup to share. We have snacks, homemade breads, desserts and cocktails. Everyone likes to try a new recipe each year. We always play games afterwards. Once everyone goes home I get to play Santa with my sister for my niece. It’s a wonderful night, full of Christmas magic.
Fav holiday tradition: not opening presents until after everyone finished a big breakfast. It was torture when I was little but I learned to live it. Plus we get to eat yummy good all day!
Fav holiday tradition: not opening presents until after we eat a big breakfast. It teaches the little ones patience and it makes for a relaxing morning for everyone else. It was torture when I was little but I learned to love it!
As my parents got married on the 25th of December celebrating their wedding anniversary with them is one my holiday traditions.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking Neiman Marcus cookies with my mom and sister to ale to our neighbors and friends! We always put on fun Christmas music to dance to also!