These DIY mulling spices are the perfect way to create your own homemade mulled cider or mulled wine this fall and winter! These make great little gifts as well!
I always love to make treats during the holidays that also make my home smell amazing and mulled cider definitely fits the bill! Mulled wine is also a really fun, festive thing to make if you’re going to be hosting a special dinner for the holidays, or really at any time during the colder months. I love the idea of giving these DIY mulling spices as gifts as well to make it really easy for others to enjoy mulling their own beverages this holiday season!
Amazing Ingredients
You’ll need:
- Cinnamon sticks
- Dried Orange Slices (Here’s how to make your own, or you can purchase dehydrated orange peel to use instead)
- Star Anise
- Allspice Berries
- Whole Cloves
I bought all of my spices from a bulk foods store, which is a great way to go because you can purchase as much or as little as you need. If you just want to spend a few cents and get just enough to make a batch for yourself, you can do that. If you want to buy a whole bunch and make these as gifts, you can do that too. Or, if these are spices that you don’t typically use all year round, it’s a good idea to buy just enough so they aren’t sitting in your cupboard until next year losing flavour. You can just pick up new spices next year when you need them. I have a soup recipe that I make almost weekly that uses cloves so I always have those, but for everything else, I bought just enough. 🙂
How to Make the DIY Mulling Spices
The recipe I’m sharing with you today is enough to make one batch of mulled cider or mulled wine…. or whatever other mulled beverage you feel like making. Get creative! 🙂
You can feel free to double, triple, quadruple, or quintuple the recipe if you’d like to give your DIY mulling spices as gifts. I like the idea of making a bunch of single batches of mulling spices and packing them up in little cheesecloth sachets tied with baking twine so they’re ready to use. Making a big super-batch up spices and presenting them in a big jar also looks really lovely, but the recipient may need to pick out the individual elements a little to make sure that they get enough cinnamon sticks, orange slices, etc each time that they make mulled cider, so it’s not quite as functional.
More from The Creek Line House – Slow Cooker Mulled Cider
If you’re making a big batch of DIY mulling spices for yourself and you know you’ll be using them often, you can crunch up the larger spices a bit and mix them really well so that you’ll get an even distribution of spices each time you take a scoop out. It won’t look as pretty, but it will still taste just as great!
To crunch up the larger spices/ingredients, just place them in a big ziplock bag and smack them a few times with a heavy rolling pin.
Here’s the full printable recipe!
These DIY mulling spices are the perfect way to create your own homemade mulled cider or mulled wine this fall and winter! These make great little gifts as well!
- 2 Cinnamon sticks
- 3 Dried orange slices (or 2 tsp dried orange peel)
- 1 tbsp Whole cloves
- 1 tbsp Whole allspice berries
- 5 Whole star anise
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Combine all ingredients together to make one batch of mulling spices. Store in an airtight jar or wrap in cheesecloth tied with string to give as a gift.
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Courtenay Hartford is the author of creeklinehouse.com, a blog based on her adventures renovating a 120-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario, Canada. On her blog, Courtenay shares interior design tips based on her own farmhouse and her work as founder and stylist of the interior photography firm Art & Spaces. She also writes about her farmhouse garden, plant-based recipes, family travel, and homekeeping best practices. Courtenay is the author of the book The Cleaning Ninja and has been featured in numerous magazines including Country Sampler Farmhouse Style, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Real Simple, and Our Homes.