Description
Miracle's Snowball Old-Fashioned, is a holiday cocktail with a modern twist, featuring ingredients such as rye, gingerbread syrup, and two types of bitters. If Santa had a drink to wind down after his busiest night of the year, it would be this.
Ingredients
Scale
Gingerbread Syrup
- 40 fl oz water
- 1700 grams white sugar
- 110 grams molasses (Grandma’s Original)
- 36 grams cinnamon sticks, whole
- 2 grams cloves, whole
- 2 grams allspice, whole
- 5 grams nutmeg, ground
- 80 grams fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
Snowball Old-Fashioned
- 2 oz rye (Rittenhouse)
- 1/2 oz “scant” oz gingerbread syrup
- 2 dashes aromatic bitters (Angostura)
- 2 dashes Cocktail Kingdom® Wormwood Bitters
- orange zest (to express and discard)
- snowball ice
Instructions
Gingerbread Syrup
- Combine chopped ginger and approximately half of the water to a blender cup or food processor, and mix. Set aside.
- Crack and grind all the dried spices and add to a large saucepan.
- Toast over medium-low heat until aromatic, mixing regularly so as to not burn.
- Add remaining water to saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for 3 minutes.
- Lower heat and add sugar, blended ginger, and molasses and heat again until simmering and sugar has dissolved.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- Strain using a bouillon strainer. 8 Bottle, date, and refrigerate.
Snowball Old-Fashioned
- In a mixing glass, combine all ingredients with cracked ice and stir well.
- Strain into a Miracle Double Rocks Glass.
- Add the snowball ice.
- Express orange zest over the drink and discard the peel.
- Category: Alcoholic drinks, christmas cocktail, holiday cocktail