Peppermint lovers can add a hint of mint to their libations.

The mint flavor works with many cocktails, soft drinks, tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

We hang them on a Vodka Martini, Chocolate Martini, Espresso Martini, Cosmopolitan, Irish Coffee, Mojito and other favorites.

Or, you can crack the candy canes into chips (in a plastic bag, using a rolling pin or hammer) and sprinkle the garnish atop the Chocolate and Coffee Martinis or Irish Coffee.

Deck the drinks!
 
 
Find more of our favorite holiday drink recipes
in our Cocktails Section.

Hang a candy cane on a holiday drink. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.

Delicious, either plain or chocolate-dipped
(above). Photo by Jaclyn Nussbaum | THE
NIBBLE.

Beyond the luscious flavor, the thinness means fewer calories per cookie (in other words, two for the calories of one).

Moravian Cookies History
Moravian cookies are a rolled cookie that was introduced to Colonial American by communities of the Moravian Church. The recipe originated centuries ago in the kingdom of Moravia, located in what is now the Czech Republic.

Moravian cookies deserve the title “wafer-thin”; they are the thinnest cookies to be found. The dough is rolled to an almost-transparent thickness; the baked cookies are very fragile.

Original recipes have been traced back to the 18th century. While some bakers still make them by hand, most are factory-made to keep up with demand. Perhaps surprisingly, the factory-made cookies are thicker than the handmade ones (to help guard against breakage).

Salem Bakery’s Ginger Spice Moravian Cookies are made with the finest ginger, cloves and other exotic spices. The chocolate-dipped version is dipped on one side in rich artisan chocolate.

The regular spice cookies are just great; but the chocolate-dipped ones move you a little closer to heaven.

 
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Updated June 2026

The White Russian, a combination of coffee liqueur, vodka and heavy cream, has been popular since it appeared in 1949. Leave out the cream and you’ve got a black-coffee-colored Black Russian (usually garnished with a maraschino cherry or a lemon slice//wedge).

The Black and White Russian recipes are not Russian in origin, but were named in the spirit of the primary ingredient, vodka.

As with almost every cocktail, there are numerous riffs on the original, including:

 
Plus:

 
December 24th, Christmas Eve is National Eggnog Day.

For Christmas and New Year’s Eve or Day, try an Eggnog White Russian, which we discovered at Randolph’s Bar & Lounge in the Warwick Hotel*, New York City.

It replaces the cream in the recipe with eggnog. Simple enough!

Below:

> Eggnog White Russian recipe.

Elsewhere On The Nibble:

> White Russian recipe.

> History of the White Russian.

> The history of vodka.

> The history of eggnog.

> More eggnog recipes.

> Specialty eggnog recipes.

> The year’s 100+ cocktail and spirit holidays.
 
 
EGGNOG WHITE RUSSIAN RECIPE

Ingredients Per Cocktail

 
Preparation

1. POUR the coffee liqueur, vodka and eggnog into a shaker filled with ice.

2. SHAKE and strain into a rocks glass.

3. TOP with a grind of fresh nutmeg. (Forget those maraschino cherries in the photo—and the candy cane, too.)

Some people like to float the cream/eggnog on top of the spirits to make a more arty White Russian. We prefer ours shaken, not layered or stirred.

[1] Celebrate the holidays with an Eggnog White Russian (photo courtesy Warwick Hotel).

[2] Some people like to float the coffee liqueur on top of a White Russian for aesthetics (photo © Byblaan | Pexels).

[3] A Black Russian is a White Russian without the cream (photo © Luis Felipe Perez | Pexels).

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