Celebrate the holidays with Bachelor Nation!

The holiday season is officially here, and some of your favorite Bachelor Nation stars are here to help you get into the spirit with some delicious recipes.

If you’ve been trying to decide what to cook to impress your family or if you’ve been wanting to add a new dish to your traditional holiday meal this year, Bachelor Nation stars from Mari Pepin to Nicole Lopez-Alvar to Jillian Harris and more have you covered!

Let’s start with a delicious drink recipe by Mari that will get you into the holiday spirits… I mean spirit!

Mari shared exclusively with BachelorNation.com that for Christmas, her family always makes coquito, a traditional Puerto Rican drink similar to eggnog, except with coconut.

Here’s her recipe:

• 1 can cream of coconut
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1-2 ounces rum (exclude for a non-alcoholic recipe)
• 1 tablespoonvanilla extract
• Ice
• Whipped cream (optional)
• Cinnamon sticks (for garnish)

Just blend it all up and top with the whipped cream, more ground cinnamon, and cinnamon stick!

Next up, we have Bachelor Nation foodie Nicole’s recipe for mouthwatering Apple Pie Pancakes. Nicole told us that these pancakes “combine all of my favorite things — breakfast, dessert, and holiday flavors all into one bite. They are seriously my heaven.” Her recipe is below, and you’re going to want to try these!

Nicole’s Apple Pie Pancakes

• Pancake Ingredients:
• 1 cup all-purpose flour (or a healthier one idk)
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground clove
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup whole milk or almond milk
• 1 large egg
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup grated apple (or way less for less apple flavor/drier pancakes)

Secret Sauce:

• Scoop a big spoonful of Mrs. Richardson’s Sea Salt Caramel (you can buy it at most grocery stores or you can use ANY caramel you have!) and plop it in a bowl with maple syrup. Microwave and boom! Pour ALL over pancakes.
• Then add fun toppings like caramelized pecans, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, dash of cinnamon, brown sugar, white chocolate chips, vanilla ice cream, pumpkin spice ice cream.... (why am I like this).

Instructions:

1. Turn on your stove to medium heat.
2. In a big bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients.
3. In another big bowl, mix together all the wet ingredients.
4. Then, pour the bowl of wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix it all together (don’t over mix)!
5. Now grab the apple you grated and pour as much as you want into the mix.

And Nicole, being the foodie that she is. obviously shared more than one recipe. She also shared a recipe for her family’s classic Cuban flan. Her favorite part about making this flan recipe is that it’s so easy!

Ingredients:

• 6 large eggs
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 ounce)
• 1 can evaporated milk (12 ounce)
• 3/4 cup whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Caramel Sauce:

• 1.5 cups white sugar
• 3 tablespoons water

Instructions:

1. Heat your oven to 350°.
2. Add all of the flan ingredients to a blender and mix until completely combined. Set aside.
3. Pour the sugar and water mixture into a loaf pan and stick into oven to create the caramel. Take out when it’s melted.
4. Pour flan mixture into the loaf pan that’s now filled with the caramel on the bottom.
5. Bake uncovered for 60 minutes. Then lay a sheet of aluminum foil over the top and bake for another 40 minutes.
6. Slice and enjoy!

Next, we have another delicious holiday drink by former Bachelorette Jillian Harris. Jillian shared how she came up with this recipe on her blog, writing, “When I was in Austria a couple of years ago, one of our favorite things to do was go to the Christmas Markets and get a hot mug (or a few!!) of Glühwein … AKA Mulled Wine!! So, when I came back home from my trip I definitely had a hankerin’ for some good ‘ol Glühwein, so much so that I decided to whip my own up.”

The ingredients are listed below if you want to make your own Mulled Wine with a Twist!

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of water
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• 10 cloves
• 10 peppercorns
• 1 large orange
• 1 large grapefruit
• 1 lemon
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• A bottle of red wine
• 1/2 cup of spiced rum
• Sugar for the rim of your mugs

Instructions:

1. Cut your orange and grapefruit in half. Juice one half of both your orange and your grapefruit.
2. Insert the cloves into the other un-juiced half of your orange. Set aside.
3. Peel your lemon into long twists.
4. Add the sugar to the water and bring to a boil on the stove.
5. Add the half an orange with the cloves inserted in the peel into the pot. Add the peppercorns (or star anise), cinnamon sticks, orange juice, grapefruit juice, and lemon twists to the pot and allow to boil for a few minutes.
6. Reduce the heat and pour in a bottle of wine and 1/2 cup of spiced rum to the pot. Make SURE this doesn’t come to a boil because then your alcohol will burn off!!
7. Allow this mixture to gently simmer for a couple of minutes so the flavors have a chance to combine.
8. Remove from heat, strain into a clean pot.
9. Sugar the rim of your mugs.
10. Divide the warm Glühwein with a Twist up between your mugs. Serve with a cinnamon stick or a slice of orange and enjoy!

If you just can’t get enough of the holiday drinks, Jessenia also shared a recipe for her coquito and it’s slightly different from Mari’s. Try whipping up both, because why not?! It’s the holidays!

Ingredients:

• 2 cans of evaporated milk
• 1 can of cream of coconut
• 1 can of coconut milk
• 1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup of white rum
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

Instructions:

Mix all together in a blender and chill it in the fridge before serving in a small glass. It’s a great drink to sip on!

And we have to end on one more recipe from Nicole because it sounds too delicious to pass up. The recipe is for her Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Christmas Morning Recipe. Need I say more?!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4  cup cocoa powder (you can use any, but a good one is best)
• 3/4  teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar (regular brown works)
• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups semisweet or bittersweet chocolate discs (or use any chocolate chips you’d like)!

Instructions: