Lemon Butter Cookie

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (30 ratings)

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
56 oz Bison grass vodka
56 oz Ketel One Vodka
14 oz Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
14 oz Monin Almond (Orgeat) Syrup
1 23 oz Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
16 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.
  5. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

  • Orgeat (almond) sugar syrup (2:1) - Nuts

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
Cocktail of the day:

18th December 2025 is Bake Cookies Day

Review:

An appropriate name for a most unusually flavoured cocktail modelled on the Polish Martini.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2002 by Mark 'Q-Ball' Linnie and Martin Oliver at the Mixing Tin bar in Leeds, England.

Nutrition:

One serving of Lemon Butter Cookie contains 177 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 12.26% alc./vol. (12.26° proof)
  • 14.7 grams of pure alcohol

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18th February 2023 at 19:36
I don’t like my drinks too sweet. So I made it with 15ml honey syrup 1:1 and 7.5ml lemon juice. Quiet suit again, for my taste. Next time I will pour 7.5ml 1:1 syrup. For the apple juice, freeze 1 apple for 8 hours, put it out of the freezer for 3 hours and just squize it in a glass over a strainer. You will get at least 60 ml juice from a small apple.
Paul Holdsworth’s Avatar Paul Holdsworth
3rd September 2022 at 19:01
Loved this. The Lemon element is pretty low-key, so it's mainly Butter Cookie flavour - and none the worse for that. The nuttiness of the orgeat syrup comes through strongly, and the Bison Grass holds its own really well. But surely honey syrup, not pure honey? Made a mess of my shaker.
Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
6th September 2022 at 19:34
Yes, should be honey syrup. When I tried the previous recipe I found it a tad rich and dilute so I have re-jigged the recipe to sharpen it somewhat.