Warm up with this classic hot toddy cocktail recipe! Hot toddies are so easy to make. You'll just need hot water, whiskey, honey, and lemon. Recipe yields 1 cocktail.
Recipe by Cookie and Kate on December 19, 2017
Prep time: PT10M
Total time: PT10M
Rating
4.9 stars ( reviews)
Keywords
Classic Hot Toddy, naturally sweetened, warm cocktail, fall, winter, Christmas
Ingredients
¾ cup water
1 ½ ounces whiskey
2 to 3 teaspoons honey, to taste
2 to 3 teaspoons lemon juice, to taste
1 lemon round
1 cinnamon stick (optional, for garnish)
Categories
Cocktail
Cuisine
Scottish
Steps
In a tea kettle or small saucepan, bring the water to a simmer. Pour the hot water into a mug.
Add the whiskey, 2 teaspoons honey and 2 teaspoon lemon juice. Stir until the honey has disappeared into the hot water. Taste, and add 1 teaspoon honey for more sweetness, and/or 1 teaspoon more lemon juice for more zing.
Garnish with a lemon round and cinnamon stick (if using). Enjoy!
Nutitrion
Serving Size: 1 cocktail
Calories: 149 calories
Carbohydrates: 12.3 g
Protein: 0.1 g
Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 10.1 mg
Sugar: 11.8 g
Reviews
Joanna on 2024-12-28 (5 stars): I have a sore throat and decided to try a hot toddy. This is soooo good. At someone's suggestion, I bought honey whiskey. Very good. Thank you.
Lesli on 2025-12-23 (5 stars): These always make me feel better ❤️
Hank Yarharn on 2024-12-31 (5 stars): I tried your recipe and it was so tasty. Thank you for sharing it on your blog.
RIC of Chanson Vert on 2025-01-06 (5 stars): Made a pair for my wife and I: delicious, warming, happy, chest cogest-O-Kleer and it's COLD outside, as we sip our drinks before the redoak fire. Merrily merrily I say unto thee. Gently down the stream.
Sally on 2025-01-14 (5 stars): I finally made this tonight, and it was delicious and well balanced. Perfect on a cold night!
Sarah on 2025-02-05 (5 stars): I added a teaspoon of brown sugar! Game changer
dorene pon on 2025-02-16 (5 stars): Excellent! I didn't have fresh lemons and used the bottled juice and it was still devine and hit the spot when recovering from a cold/cough. Love all your recipes--ingredients and variations, spot on. Thank you!
Buzz on 2025-02-20 (5 stars): My wife’s persistent coughing ceased almost instantaneously after 2 drinks from the cup. I could not believe it.
Short on 2026-04-24 (5 stars): Lush and warming,worked for me.thankyou.ky
Lesley from Kent on 2025-02-24 (5 stars): Couldn't sleep so looked up hot toddy recipe and got this. I made it with spiced rum and oh wow, it's delicious. Thanks so much for doing the whole run through, I'd never have thought of spiced rum if you hadn't mentioned it, and it's . Xxx thanks from cold wet and faraway Kent in UK
Julius Unk on 2025-03-10 (5 stars): Very good. Used lemon juice concentrate and a touch more honey
Used 50 proof rye elegant vagabond bourbon
Pam on 2025-03-17 (5 stars): This is good. I ended up using Jack Daniels Rye and lemon juice concentrate. Hopefully it helps a bad cough from a Spring- ish cold due to the roller coaster weather in IA. Thanks for the recipe.
Richard on 2025-10-01 (5 stars): There’s not enough superlatives to best describe this!! Utterly amazing :))
Kathryn on 2025-11-05 (5 stars): What a great range of options to make it your own. We followed recipe as written (yum) plus made some without liquor for the kids and plan to incorporate some of the variations in the future. Thanks for a great recipe!
Masha on 2025-12-28 (5 stars): Very Nice! My new favorite for cold winters instead of gluhwein.
Richard on 2026-01-03 (3 stars): Its too watered down. My mom used to make it with all four parts equally. But then, it was for my dad a farmer trying to get rid of "The Grip" as he called it. He drank it, and went to bed hoping to sweat it off. It worked most times.
