Omni Hotels & Resorts Are Serving Cookie Cocktails and We've Got the Recipes
These cookie-inspired cocktails available at Omni Hotels and Resorts are a sweet way to celebrate the holidays!
Holiday guests of Omni Hotels & Resorts are in for a sweet treat: They’ll be able to indulge in festive cookie-inspired cocktails featuring yummy flavors such as sugar cookie, chocolate and cinnamon, to name a few. The delicious drinks are curated from the chefs’ very own family cookie recipes and are part of the Omni Originals series, a featured food program at Omni Hotels & Resorts.
"The holiday season is known for good friends, family and food, so we decided to take a twist on tradition and make our favorite holiday cookies into crafty cocktails, making for unexpected palate pleasers," says Devin Burns, Vice President of Food and Beverage at Omni Hotels & Resorts. "Our chefs whipped up the cocktails using recipes from childhood cookie favorites they used to bake with their families during the holiday season."
Try making these cocktail recipes at your next holiday celebration or book at trip to an Omni Hotel and leave the mixology to the masters!
Orange Spice Amaretto Shortbread
Orange Spice Amaretto Shortbread Cocktail
Where to Find It: Omni Corpus
These cookies were inspired by the ones my grandmother would make around the holidays. She always had some type of cookie ready when I would visit, and her short bread ones were always my favorite. I didn’t realize it at the time, but she would be a big influence on me, and probably set me on this path. These rich light cookies are delightful, and the salty almond, paired with the spice of the pepper, gives them an added depth of flavor. -Chef Dean Sprague
RECIPE
1 oz Mount Gay Black Barrel
0.5 oz Disaronno Amaretto
1.5 oz orange juice
1 oz MoninCookie Butter Syrup
0.75 Constant Comment Tea, concentrated
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Garnish: Half moon orange with cloves, grated nutmeg and cinnamon stick
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in mixing tin and shake well.
2. Double strain into iced Collins glass.
3. Garnish and serve.
Cinnamon Churro Cookie
Cinnamon Churro Cookie Cocktail
Where to Find It: Omni San Diego Hotel
My favorite childhood memory from growing up in Guadalajara was visiting the fair because I was able to eat one of my favorite foods, churros. The churro would be fried until it was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. They would coat it in cinnamon sugar and fill the inside with cajeta, vanilla cream or a chocolate hazelnut spread. To recreate this memory, I have fashioned a crispy cinnamon cookie with a Nutella swirl topped with freshly made churro crumble. It brings me right back to my youth. To enhance the display, we have paired it with a linzer date cookie in our iconic hibiscus shape.” – Chef Juan Barrios
RECIPE
1.5 oz Tres Generaciones Reposado
0.75 oz Monin Vanilla Syrup
0.50 oz Monin Cinnamon Syrup
2 oz milk
Garnish: Sugar and cinnamon rim and dust
Prep
Wet outside rim of martini or coupe glass with simple syrup (3/4 in width).
Dip into cinnamon sugar mixture.
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in mixing tin and shake well.
2. Double strain into sugar/cinnamon rimmed martini glass.
3. Garnish and serve.
Holiday Chocolate Crinkle
Chocolate Crinkle Cocktail
Where to Find It: The Omni Homestead Resort
Like most people, I have always loved desserts. If given a choice, I would trade something chocolate for a gourmet meal. While I didn’t grow up with traditional American comfort food and desserts, I made up for it when I decided to become a pastry chef. I remember going to the library and borrowing a huge dessert cookbook. I made every recipe in the book and would even experiment with added flavors to make them my own. The first time I made classic crinkle cookies, I knew this was going to be one of my favorites. I remember how the scent of chocolate filled my kitchen as I waited for them to finish baking, my mouth watering in anticipation. And this recipe didn’t disappoint. The rich, fudgy chocolate inside and the crisp outside dusted with powdered sugar are the perfect combination of texture and flavor. For the holidays, or anytime I want to really indulge, I add walnuts and cherries and the result is an incredibly decadent cookie that pairs deliciously with a bowl of vanilla ice cream. It’s also a great way to wow your friends and family!– Chef Leen Kim
RECIPE
1.5 oz Jack Daniels Black Label
0.5 oz Hersheys Chocolate Syrup
0.5 oz Monin Toasted Almond Mocha Syrup
2 oz milk
Dash powdered sugar
Garnish Rim: Cocoa powder and sugar
Mixture, sprinkled with powdered sugar + pirouette cookie (optional)
Prep
Wet the outside rim of the collins glass ¾ with simple syrup. Dip into a bowl mixture of the cocoa powder and sugar. (Using a napkin, wipe any excess mixture on the bottom to ensure a neat line.)
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in mixing tin and shake well.
2. Strain into rimmed glass.
3. Top with a mound of shaved chocolate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Maple Pecan Bourbon Cookie Old Fashioned
Where to Find It: Omni Fort Worth Hotel
Chef Sabrina Pena Morale’s holiday cookie gets its origin from where most great recipes come from: her family elders. Over the years as her baking skills bloomed and she realized she wanted to be a pastry chef, she never forgot about this one cookie, tweaking it over and over again. During the holidays every year when she visits her nephew and niece, they always insist she make these awesome cookies. These days they call her in advance to make sure she will have everything so they can make them together during her annual holiday visit. As a result, when Chef Sabrina thinks of a great holiday cookie she thinks of family, passing it on, and of course, an awesome holiday cookie!
RECIPE
2 oz Elijah Craig Bourbon
0.25 Monin Butter Pecan Syrup 0.25 Monin Maple Spice Syrup
3 dashes Fee Bros. Black Walnut Bitters
Garnish: Caramel syrup swirl in glass and over top + large ice rock (if available)
Prep
Swirl caramel along the inside of the glass and set aside.
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir well.
2. Strain into caramel-swirled Old Fashioned glass.
Peach Kolazcki Cookie Bellini
Peach Kolazcki Cookie Bellini
Where to Find It: Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Hotel
As a young culinarian, my first chef who is a mentor had a Polish grandmother who would make the cookies for him as a child. He would tell the SAME STORY every time as he handed them out to the staff for the holidays while singing Christmas songs. The cookies were always buttery and soft with the perfect amount of sweetness, and accompanied by a chilled glass of eggnog. I would ask the chef for his recipe but he would tell me its Granny’s secret— after a few years he gave in and told us how to create this wonderful treat. For the last 20 years or so, I have been making them for my family, telling his story with a slight twist. —Chef Desmond Queen
RECIPE
0.75 oz Absolut Elyx
0.25 oz St. Germain
0.75 oz peach puree
2 dashes orange bitters
3 oz Moet & Chandon Brut
Garnish: Wet outside rim of glass with REAL peach puree and dip into sugar.
Prep
1. Wet outside rim of champagne flute with peach puree.
2.Dip into a bowl of white sugar and set aside.
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in mixing tin and shake well.
2. Double strain into rimmed champagne flute.
Sugar Cookie Cocktail
Where to Find It: Omni Tucson National Resort
This cookie is exactly how it was passed to me, exactly how I do it with my kiddos now. Traditions passed down. My mom cut this recipe from a magazine in the 80's. Finally one day it was mailed to me with this post it. My kids and I make these at Christmas, the shapes hold true, never gets tough, pull apart if you ball, so interactive and fun family time. While doing this today, I saw the same joy in cooks eyes learning as I see in my children. –Chef Jonathan Stutzman
RECIPE
1.5 oz Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
0.5 oz Disaronno Amaretto
0.25 oz Monin Vanilla Syrup
0.5 oz Agave Syrup
1.5 oz milk
Garnish:
Green sprinkle rim and nonpareil colored swirl.
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients in mixing tin and shake well.
2. Double strain into rimmed martini glass.
3. Garnish and serve.
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