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By The editors of MidwestLiving.com Updated October 09, 2020
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Caramel-Hazelnut Café Mocha

Warm up your parties or family gatherings with our recipes for hot chocolate, flavored coffee, spiced tea, apple cider, slow cooker juice mixes and more.

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Caramel-Hazelnut Café Mocha

Caramel-Hazelnut Café Mocha
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Melted Nutella. Need we say more? Our updated version of hot chocolate is made in a slow cooker, just for kicks, and after cooking, can be kept on the warm setting for one hour.

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Vin Brulé

Vin Brulé
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If you like, garnish cups of chef Gerard Craft''s Italian mulled wine with thin orange slices or pretty curls of orange peel. This recipe multiplies easily and can be made ahead and reheated before serving. 

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Mulled Cranberry Punch

Mulled Cranberry Punch
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Cranberry juice, juice concentrate, spices, orange juice and water simmers in your slow cooker. If you're serving this punch at a party, keep it warm on the low-heat setting for up to two hours. 

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Double-Hot Drinking Chocolate

Double-Hot Drinking Chocolate
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This isn't a watery cocoa for the kids on movie night. It's a fully adult dessert that you just happen to sip from a cup. A dash of cayenne pepper makes the drink extra-warming without being overtly spicy. 

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Chai-Maple Cider

Chai-Maple Cider
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Breathe deeply. This spiced cider tea from the slow cooker doubles as aromatherapy. After cooking, the cider can be kept on the warm setting for one hour. 

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Hot Cocoa-Nut

Hot Cocoa-Nut
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While traveling in Israel, Minnesota blogger Molly Yeh discovered hawaij, a spice blend often sprinkled in coffee. In this recipe from her book Molly on the Range ($32.50, Rodale), she adds hawaij to her coconut-based hot chocolate for extra flavor. 

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Oatmeal Cream Pie

Oatmeal Cream Pie
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Brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, butter, vanilla, egg-it's like a rich, drinkable cookie. Our slow cooker twist on classic eggnog can be kept on the warm setting for one hour. 

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Hot Holiday Apple Cider

Hot Holiday Apple Cider
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This rosy cider simmers for just 10 minutes, making a great choice for drop-in visitors or last-minute parties. The recipe comes from Burchell's White Hill Farmhouse Inn in Minden, Nebraska. 

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Vanilla Cafe Latte

Vanilla Cafe Latte
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Here's our version of vanilla coffee served at a Missouri coffee house. Vanilla syrup, steamed milk and frothed milk flavor hot brewed espresso or strong coffee. 

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Chocolate Chai Tea

Chocolate Chai Tea
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This chai tea is spicy, chocolatey and just a little thick. 

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Vanilla Bean Infused Hot Chocolate

Vanilla Bean-Infused Hot Chocolate recipe
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Jill Prescott of Wisconsin's former Ecole de Cuisine cooking school created this heavenly take on hot chocolate. 

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Coconut Tres Leches Hot Chocolate

Coconut Tres Leches Hot Chocolate
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A combination of coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk and fat-free milk puts a fresh spin on classic hot chocolate. 

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Hot Buttered Rum and Spiced Pear Tea

Hot Buttered Rum and Spiced Pear Tea
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Freeze a base of ice cream, butter, sugar and spices, then combine with rum and boiling water when you're ready to serve our Hot Buttered Rum (recipe at link above). You can freeze the base for up to three months—almost long enough to last through a Midwest winter!

Pear nectar, honey, an orange and spices flavor easy-to-make Spiced Pear Tea. 

 

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Tea and Cider Wassail

Tea and Cider Wassail
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Tea, four fruit juices and spices brew in your slow cooker. Serve the drink from the cooker or a heatproof bowl. 

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White Hot Chocolate

White Hot Chocolate
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Light cream, vanilla-flavor baking pieces, cinnamon and nutmeg combine for a rich hot drink. To create the foam on top, before serving mix some of the hot chocolate mixture in a blender until frothy. 

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Spiced Black Tea

Spiced Black Tea
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Prepare this spiced tea in just 10 minutes, using ingredients including pomegranate juice, lemon juice, fresh ginger, cloves, cinnamon and star anise. 

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Hot Caramel Chocolate

Hot Caramel Chocolate
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Have a bowl of milk chocolate-covered round caramels ready when you serve this, so family or guests can sprinkle the candy on top of the crown of whipped cream. 

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Chocolate Cappuccino

Chocolate Cappuccino
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Chopped semisweet chocolate and crushed peppermints flavor this easy hot coffee drink. Garnish with a peppermint stick. 

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Hot Strawberry Cider

Hot Strawberry Cider
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Frozen sliced strawberries combine with apple cider or juice, cinnamon, and cloves for an easy-to-make hot drink. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and strawberry or apple slices, if you like.  

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Chocolate Cocoa Deluxe

Chocolate Cocoa Deluxe
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Cook bittersweet or semisweet chocolate in water, then add your choice of Grand Marnier, amaretto or vanilla flavoring. Bittersweet chocolate will add a stronger flavor than semisweet. 

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Spiced Apple-Cranberry Cider and more

Spiced Apple-Cranberry Cider
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Warm up cold evenings in a flash when you serve these drinks hot from your microwave. Spiced Apple-Cranberry Cider combines cranberry-juice cocktail with apple cider or apple juice, cloves and cinnamon. Garnish with a skewer of cranberries, if you like.Warm-You-Up Hot Currant Punch blends currant jelly, pineapple juice and lemon juice. Lemony Spiced Cider adds a flavor punch to cider via cloves, cinnamon, lemon peel and honey.  

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Hot Coffee Latte Eggnog

Hot Coffee Latte Eggnog
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A stick of cinnamon, whipped cream, ground spice or a peppermint stick add a special-occasion touch to homemade eggnog. 

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Gluhwein (Hot Mulled Wine)

Gluhwein (Hot Mulled Wine)
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Udo Heinz from the Baum Wine Group in Bensenville, Illinois, says he fixes this German/Austrian specialty in the traditional Nuremberg way: hot, a bit sweet and spiced. We created both an adult and a nonalcoholic "Kinder" (kids') version using directions from Udo. 

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Spiced Orange Mocha

Spiced Orange Mocha
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Blend coffee, cocoa powder, orange, spices and a little rum extract to create this mellow brew. 

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Eggnog Hot Chocolate

Eggnog Hot Chocolate
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Simmer vanilla bean, orange peel and whole nutmeg in cream, then melt in chunks of white and milk chocolate for a steamy-sweet beverage with a nog-like flavor. 

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    1 of 25 Caramel-Hazelnut Café Mocha
    2 of 25 Vin Brulé
    3 of 25 Mulled Cranberry Punch
    4 of 25 Double-Hot Drinking Chocolate
    5 of 25 Chai-Maple Cider
    6 of 25 Hot Cocoa-Nut
    7 of 25 Oatmeal Cream Pie
    8 of 25 Hot Holiday Apple Cider
    9 of 25 Vanilla Cafe Latte
    10 of 25 Chocolate Chai Tea
    11 of 25 Vanilla Bean Infused Hot Chocolate
    12 of 25 Coconut Tres Leches Hot Chocolate
    13 of 25 Hot Buttered Rum and Spiced Pear Tea
    14 of 25 Tea and Cider Wassail
    15 of 25 White Hot Chocolate
    16 of 25 Spiced Black Tea
    17 of 25 Hot Caramel Chocolate
    18 of 25 Chocolate Cappuccino
    19 of 25 Hot Strawberry Cider
    20 of 25 Chocolate Cocoa Deluxe
    21 of 25 Spiced Apple-Cranberry Cider and more
    22 of 25 Hot Coffee Latte Eggnog
    23 of 25 Gluhwein (Hot Mulled Wine)
    24 of 25 Spiced Orange Mocha
    25 of 25 Eggnog Hot Chocolate

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