winer wonderland cocktails

Winter Spiced Old-fashioned:

Ingredients
2 oz bourbon
.5 oz winter spiced simple syrup*
2 dashes orange bitters
2 dashes aromatic bitters
Brandied cherry
Cinnamon stick

Instructions
Stir ingredients with ice. Strain into a rocks glass over crushed brandied cherry. Toast end of cinnamon stick and add as garnish.

*Simmer 1:1 simple syrup with 1 tsp: clove, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg

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Very Merry Bourbon Alexander

Ingredients
1 oz bourbon*
1 oz crème de cacao
1 oz half and half
Dash of simple syrup
Dash of salt

Instructions
Combine ingredients in shaker, add ice, shake vigorously, strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with cranberries and a sprig of rosemary.
* a guest asked about a substitute for bourbon. these are commonly made with brandy and egg white (to add foam).

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Jalapeño Cranberry Margarita

Ingredients
2 oz Tanteo Jalapeño Tequila
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz agave nectar
2 oz no sugar added cranberry juice

Instructions
Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with a cranberry skewer. Pre-mix juices and agave to save time, the mix 1 part tequila to two parts sour mix.

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Berry Ginger Champagne

Ingredients
.5 oz Raspberry syrup
1.5 ox Chambord
3 oz extra ginger beer
3 ox champagne
3 drops ginger bitters

Instructions
Build in a cocktail flute and garnish with a frozen raspberry and blackberry