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Cookies for Santa
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Dessert 7 · Candy Cane Lane

Cookies for Santa

The drink is the milk left out for Santa.

Serves1
GlassBrandy snifter, cookie-crumb rim
Difficulty1 of 3
Sweet / Strong4 / 2
CostLow
Make-aheadBrown-butter syrup keeps 1 week

Ingredients

  • 1 oz vanilla vodka
  • 0.75 oz amaretto
  • 0.75 oz Irish cream
  • 1 oz whole milk
  • 0.25 oz brown-butter syrup
  • Pinch of salt
  • Rim: melted white chocolate, then crushed sugar cookie and red-and-green sprinkles
  • Garnish: red-and-white straw; iced sugar cookie with one bite out; "Thanks — S." card

Build

  1. Dip the snifter rim in white chocolate, then the cookie crumbs and sprinkles; chill.
  2. Shake everything hard with ice.
  3. Strain into the snifter; add the straw.
  4. Perch the bitten cookie on the rim.
  5. Set it on a small plate with the card.

Zero-proof twin

3 oz cold milk with 0.25 oz brown-butter syrup and 2 drops almond extract.

Batch for 8. 8 oz vodka, 6 oz amaretto, 6 oz Irish cream, 8 oz milk, 2 oz syrup; shake 3.75 oz to order.

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