Sweet Potato Old Fashioned

Course: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings: cocktail

Calories: 233kcal

Author: Jazzmine Woodard

Classic bourbon-based cocktail with richly spiced sweet potato syrup

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Equipment

1 mixing glass or highball
1 bar spoon or regular table spoon
1 cocktail strainer or mesh strainer
1 rocks glass
1 cocktail pick
1 lighter optional

Ingredients

1 ½ ounce sweet potato syrup
2-3 dashes angostura bitters
ice
1 ½ ounce bourbon whiskey
orange
5 mini marshmallows

Instructions

Add the sweet potato syrup and bitters to mixing glass and to stir to combine with bar spoon.
Fill mixing glass with ice then pour in the bourbon and stir until chilled to the touch (about eight seconds).
Using cocktail strainer, strain liquid into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
Peel off a strip of orange rind and squeeze it over the cocktail to express oils then drop peel into the glass.
Thread marshmallows onto cocktail pick then carefully hold lighter flame to each marshmallow for a few seconds until charred. Add marshmallow garnish to cocktail then serve. Enjoy responsibly!

Notes

Making the Sweet Potato Syrup

Add 1 ½ cup brown sugar, 1 ½ cup water, ¾ cup sweet potato puree, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, ½ teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, and a pinch of sea salt in a saucepan over medium low heat.
Stir until all ingredients are dissolved.
Bring to a boil then remove from heat and allow to cool. Makes 14 servings.

Preparation

To large batch this cocktail, combine six ounces of sweet potato syrup with 8-12 dashes of bitters. Add the ice and six ounces of bourbon then stir until chilled. Divide the cocktails between four rocks glasses and express orange oil over each one then garnish with torched marshmallows. This makes four servings and you can adjust the servings in the recipe card below if you need any more!

Variations

The old fashioned is meant to be savored and sipped nice and slow so it's usually served over a giant cube or sphere of ice. You can use whatever you have on hand just note that smaller ice cubes melt faster, which results in a more watered-down drink.

Cocktail Tool Substitutions

Instead of a jigger to measure the liquor and syrup with, you can use a standard size shot glass, which holds about the same amount of liquid as the jigger's large end.

If you don't have a cocktail strainer a mesh strainer also works well. Or you can use another glass to cover all but a sliver of the mixing glass as you pour so that just the liquid comes out.

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