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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
I get out the old family recipes and make goodies to give away. My favorite is my grandma’s date nut roll.
We used to always go for a hike in the Catskills and then make hot coco at the peek. After we would come home and eAt together, it was so cozy and fun.
I love baking at the holidays- my husband always makes buckeyes and this year I did cookies and cinnamon sugar pecans. It’s our first Christmas with our baby so we’re so excited to start new traditions like giving her an ornament every year so she can have them for her tree when she has her own!
Favorite holiday tradition: I love to play “elf” or “Santa’s helper” in my condo complex, as so many of my neighbors are older and live alone. While they are still happily living independently, I need to keep in mind varying dietary and physical restrictions, so have filled up colorful gift bags with fresh seasonal fruit (starting with those delicious little clementines) that they can easily eat, and top with lots of festive tissue paper, This year, I added a cute box of Trader Joe’s Macaron soaps — three different pastel colors/scents, looking just like the real French Macaron, but definitely no calories! The gift bag is just a little surprise awaiting them at their front door and it’s such a joy to bring a smile to their faces each year at Christmas.
My sister hosts a Christmas Eve party every year and we do an ornament swap. It’s so fun! Also prime rib dinner on Christmas Day is a fave too!
Merry Christmas!
My fav holiday tradition involves food of course! Mom always made a breakfast casserole the morning of and now i still do it with my growing family today! Merry Christmas and thanks for your continuing inspiration!
First of all this looks AMAZING and I will def be making it!!! But, my fave Christmas tradition has to be watching the Grinch (the original!!) With my mom ☺️
Favorite Christmas tradition: matching family Christmas jammies
On Christmas eve we do a non-traditional christmas dinner of homemade enchiladas. I enjoy the whole process from smelling the roasted chili to sticky hands covered in cheese and sauce to sitting down for the family meal!
Favorite holiday tradition, is making a booze bouquet. Last year I upgraded to a booze tree! Tiny liquor bottles is the main decoration for this. ☺
Favorite holiday tradition, is when all the cousins go to grandmas house in their pajamas, and bake cookies! No matter what age, every 12/23 eberyone makes there way to grandmas house. It’s such a special tradition!
I love going to cut down our Christmas tree with my family! The place we go gives us warm cider and such as well – the people who run it are such sweethearts.
Favorite holiday tradition is the magic coco my siblings and I would make! It had a majic chocolate bell and was stirred with a candy cane and we all swore it sent us straight to sleep so Santa could come =)
My favorite holiday tradition was started by my mother in law right after my now husband and I started dating. We love Christmas and knew we had some wonderful and loving traditions so we wanted to share that with others. 5 years ago a family at our church was in dire need of not Christmas gifts but of living essentials for their young children as the holiday season rolled in so as a family we stepped in. We decided to continue on with our loving family time spent together but to only celebrate the season of giving to those truly in need. This year we have “adopted” one of my mother in laws students family. They live in a shelter and are truly some of the sweetest people you would ever meet. We are having them over for Christmas, we are cooking for them, covering the essentials they have asked for and are just so excited to spend the holiday gathered together likely around a campfire in the backyard. It’s a lot, but that is our Christmas tradition and I think my husband gets a kick out of telling people “no, I don’t buy my wife a Christmas present ever!” Lol.
I love making Grittibänzen with the boys…reminds me of mom.