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Gingerbread Cocktail

Name: Gingerbread Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Bourbon whiskey; 15 ml Butterscotch liqueur; 15 ml Ginger wine; 37.5 ml Apple juice; 6 drop Ginger bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Butterscotch liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ginger wine
1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
6 drop	Ginger bitters

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare skewered crystallised ginger for garnish.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gingerbread Cocktail contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.42% alc./vol. (30.84° proof)
17.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created by yours truly. I revisited this cocktail in February 2024, 20 years after I created it. The 2004 recipe was 45ml (1½oz) Bourbon, 22.5ml (¾oz) butterscotch liqueur, 22.5ml (¾oz) ginger wine, and 60ml (2oz) apple juice.

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Review

Warming ginger spice and rich butterscotch laced with bourbon, harmonised by apple juice.

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Comments & Discussion

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Jules Klassen 1y

I tried the original, as found (with attribution) in the Cocktail Party app. Maybe my Ginger Wine had seen better days but it was not gingery enough.

I re-did it with 1.5 oz rye, 1/2 oz each of ginger liqueur, ginger wine and butter ripple & 1.5 oz of juice. Much more gingerbready. No ginger bitters to hand.

Delicious. Will try again with my next bottle of ginger wine

Avery Garnett 2y

Looking at the ingredients explains this drink perfectly. It's butterscotch, a little apple, a little ginger, a little bourbon. It's perfectly balanced and delicious, but you aren't getting some secret subtle layer of flavour from this.

Angela Knox 3y