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

Gingerbread Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₂ oz	Butterscotch liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Ginger wine
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
6 drop	Bob's Ginger Bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare skewered crystallised ginger for garnish.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger.

Review:

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

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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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Nutrition:

One serving of Gingerbread Cocktail contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.46% alc./vol. (15.46° proof)
16.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Jules Klassen

16th November 2024 at 07:38

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

13th January 2024 at 20:29

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

19th August 2023 at 22:35

Good gingery flavour, warming and sweet. I have made this also using Butterscotch syrup as a substitute for the liqueur, but dial back to around 15ml unless you really like it sweet.

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