Christmas Old Fashioned

Author

sherlock428

Food

Prep Time: 00:10

Recipe Time: 03:15

Temperature : 130.5F / 54.7C

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup fresh cranberries
• 4 whole cloves
• 4 whole all spice
• 1 whole star anise
• 1 cup simple syrup
• 14oz Bourbon of your choice (I used Jim Beam)
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 6 dashes of Angostora bitters

Directions

1. Make “Christmas” simple syrup. Slice 1/2 of the cranberries and leave 1/2 cranberries whole. Combine: Cloves, allspice, Star Anise, cinnamon sticks, and all the cranberries (sliced and unsliced), 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water in a small pot and bring to a boil.
2. Add 1 cup “Christmas Simple Syrup” to a mason jar
3. Fill rest of the mason jar with bourbon and bitters
4. Immerse in water bath
5. For a garnish microplane some white chocolate and rim your glass