Recipe: Gingerbread Martini

Oh snap! This resort martini will make your holiday gatherings special

Move over, espresso martini and Hot Chocolate Martini. The Walt Disney World Resort Hotels have a festive replacement: A Gingerbread Martini! This spiced beverage is available at Steakhouse 71 at Disney’s Contemporary Resort, Martha’s Vineyard at Disney’s Beach Club Resort, and Turf Club Lounge at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa. 

To make it at home when it’s too cold outside, try this 4-ingredient recipe below!

Gingerbread Martini

Yields 1 serving

Ingredients:

Cocktail

• 1½ ounces vodka

• 1 ½ ounces RumChata

• 1 ounce gingerbread syrup

Optional ingredients for Garnish

• Honey

• Simple syrup

• Biscoff cookies

• Gingerbread peeps

Instructions: 

Cocktail

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, vodka, RumChata, and gingerbread syrup.

2. Shake well.

3. Pour into prepared glass and enjoy!

Garnish

4. Dip glass into simple syrup or honey.

5. Crush Biscoff cookies in a zip-top bag then pour crumbles onto a plate.

6. Roll glass around in the crumbles

7. Add on a Gingerbread Peep or cookie to the rim.

8. Enjoy!

Review:

Disney uses RumChata to make its martini, but if you want a more espresso martini vibe, you can use 1 ounce of coffee liqueur (like Kahlua) and ½ ounce of Irish cream (like Bailey’s) in place of the creamy, spiced liqueur. 

This is definitely a post-dinner nightcap drink when you’re just looking for one and done. We ended up tweaking this one per our tastes. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gingerbread syrup, and wanted a non-dairy fix. So I made my version with:

• 1 ½ ounces of vodka

• 1 ounce of almond milk

• 1 ounce of coffee liqueur

• 1/2 ounce of gingerbread syrup

My boyfriend, Tim, replaced the vodka with 1 ounce of Buffalo Trace Bourbon and then adjusted the rest of the ingredients as follows:

Gingerbread Martini: Tim’s version 

• 1 ounce bourbon (Buffalo Trace)

• 1 ounce almond milk

• 1 ounce coffee liqueur 

• 1/2 ounce RumChata

• 1 ounce gingerbread syrup