The Top 10 Christmas Rum Cocktails

Hot Buttered Rum is one of the easiest cocktails to make around the holidays. It’s easy to adjust this recipe to keep a pot on the stove, ready to welcome guests in from the cold.

All you need is spiced rum, dark brown sugar, cinnamon, and boiling water. As a bonus, it’s highly aromatic. The smell of cinnamon and other wintry spices will waft through your home.

This tart Christmas beverage is easy to make, with only four ingredients, including spiced rum and cranberry juice. You can easily make it to order or mix a batch in a punch bowl.

You’ll serve this cocktail over ice, and you can use a cinnamon stick, rosemary sprig, or orange slice (or all three!) to garnish. 

Just like pirates, naughty elves prefer rum! This drink combines spiced rum with cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, and a couple of specialty liqueurs, so it’s simple to make.

The recipe link includes instructions to make a fun rim for the glass. While it isn’t necessary, it will make your guests feel more festive!

While this cocktail is a little complicated, it’s worth it for the sophisticated, delicious, spicy, and warm result for your holiday get-together. 

This rum and ginger cocktail calls for a specific brand of golden rum and combines ginger wine, ginger beer, and fresh ginger, in addition to other ingredients.

Some people shy away from cocktails with egg whites, but it lends an unmatched savory flavor and fluffiness. True to its name (and its predecessor, the whiskey sour), this drink is tart and sour.

Dark rum provides a rich sugariness that contrasts nicely with the lemon and other ingredients. 

This delicious Christmas punch is festive, sparkly, easy to make, and meant to provide for a crowd. It’s the perfect party punch!

Besides dark rum, you’ll need sparkling wine, cranberry juice, and a few other simple ingredients. Have fun with the garnish: you can use red cranberries, green rosemary “trees,” or other edible items.

A Dark and Stormy is the perfect drink for a cold winter night, so give it a Christmas twist. You’ll use traditional ingredients like dark spiced rum, lime juice, and ginger beer. For the holiday spice, combine those with cranberry juice and cinnamon.

Cherries have a deep sweetness, and this cocktail brings it out to perfectly complement the alcohol in the rum. It uses cherry brandy liqueur and amarena syrup. While those are specialty ingredients, you only need the rum (preferably XO), lemon juice, and ice.

If you want a little taste of the tropics, try this Coconut Rum Cocktail. Thanks to fresh mint and simple syrup, it’s reminiscent of a mojito, and milk gives it a wintry color, especially if you add frozen cranberries to your ice cubes.

Speaking of mojitos, this wintry drink uses coconut cream for sweetness, and it also gives it a snowy white color. Like all mojitos, this one starts with muddled lime, mint, and sugar. Topped with pomegranate berries, this drink is almost as fun to look at as it is to imbibe.