Gingerbread cocktails in London bars to spice up your Christmas drinking

A cup of tea and a slice of gingerbread is an tried-and-tested festive favourite – but add in a dram of whiskey or a nip of gin, and we have a Christmas party on our hands.

This year, the gingerbread men have broken out of the bakery and are hitting up London’s bars, thanks to a host of cocktails inspired by the teatime treat.

From hot mulled gins to cocktails served inside an actual gingerbread house, these are the festive drinks spicing up the yuletide season.

The Victorian-inspired cocktail bar offers a Stocking Surprise, mixing fermented gingerbread with rum and walnut cordial, before topping with sparkling wine.

£12, 1A Bedford Street, WC2E 9HH, mr-foggs.com

At the Soho location for the seafood favourite, terrace diners can enjoy warming mix of mulled Sipsmith sloe gin and gingerbread cordial.

£9, Kingly Court, W1B 5PW, thewrightbrothers.co.uk

The American festive pop-up bar has come to Covent Garden, serving a whiskey based Gingerbread Flip with ginger snap cookie crumbs.

£13, 14-15 Henrietta Street, WC2 8QG, henriettahotel.com

For Thanksgiving, the restaurant’s Martini Bar will serve a gingerbread version of the cocktail classic with syrup, lime cordial and Angostura bitters.

£13, 18 Wellington Street, WC2E 7DD, christophersgrill.com

Warm your cockles on this King’s Cross rooftop terrace with a Gingerbread Sour, adding a flavoured syrup to a whiskey, egg white and lemon mix.

£9, 257-259 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL, bigchillbar.com

The Gunman’s Brandy – a warm concoction of Hennessy, Ardberg, honey, ginger and cinnamon – can be enjoyed inside the Spitalfields pub’s very own life-size gingerbread chalet.

£11, 54 Brushfield Street, E1 6AG, thegunlondon.com