Cranberry Old Fashioned

5 from 3 votes

This Cranberry Old Fashioned is easy to make, perfectly balanced and slightly sweet. It's a delicious cocktail to make this holiday season.

Prep Time10

Cook Time10

Steep10

Total Time30

Course: Beverage, Beverages: Alcoholic

Cuisine: American-Inspired

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings: drink

Calories: 202.45kcal

Make the Cranberry Simple Syrup. Add a cup of fresh cranberries or frozen to a medium saucepan with equal parts of water and cane sugar or turbinado sugar.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes until the cranberries start to burst. Remove from heat, let the mixture steep for 10 minutes, and then strain the cranberries from the flavored syrup using a fine-mesh sieve.
Place cranberry simple syrup in the refrigerator to cool until ready to make cocktails.
1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, 1 cup cranberries
Add ingredients and ice to a shaker. Add bourbon, cranberry-flavored simple syrup, orange bitters, and ice to a cocktail shaker.
2 oz bourbon whiskey, 3 dashes orange bitters, 3/4 oz cranberry simple syrup
Shake and Strain. Shake vigorously and strain the drink into a highball glass filled with ice.
Garnish and Serve. Add a dehydrated orange wheel and a cinnamon stick to make it festive, and enjoy.
cinnamon stick, dehydrated orange wheel