Peach Cobbler Fauxtini

This holiday season I’ve been working on a new mocktail to keep with the festivities. This year, my idea was to emulate a Peach Cobbler. The base of that I figured requires only three pieces:

• Peach

• Vanilla

• Winter Spices

So follow me quickly with my thought process here: the original idea was to do a very simple cocktail with Goya peach nectar, cream soda, and a winter spice simple syrup. It came out delicious, the peach nectar with the finish of cream soda really reminded me of my days in the Boy Scouts; cracking open a couple of cans of peaches with whatever spices and pancake mix we had to get close to a cobbler. I got this weird need for the chilly warmth that runs through you when caught by a winter breeze while posted up next to a campfire. It was nothing short of Nostalgia. But, it ended up feeling a bit too artificial for the boujee fauxtini I'd imagined (but it's also really good and I drank it for a couple days straight so I included it here).

Winter Spice Simple Syrup

Ingredients

• .5 c brown sugar

• .25 c white sugar

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 3 allspice berries

• 2 cloves

• 1 tbsp vanilla extract (or whatever the preferred vanilla in your house is)

• .75 c water

Steps

1. Crush up spices in mortar and pestle

2. Add to a pan with the sugars, water and vanilla

3. Heat until sugar is dissolved

4. Strain and cool (I like to keep mine in a squeeze bottle)

Peach Cobbler Tall

Ingredients

• Peach nectar (Or relatively thick peach juice)

• Winter Spice Simple Syrup

• Cream soda

• Ice

Steps

1. Fill up the preferred glass halfway with ice

2. Cover ice with peach nectar

3. Add in a solid squeeze (.5 tsp) or Winter Spice SImple Syrup

4. Top with cream soda

The second iteration was still with the cream soda and winter spice, but this time I used peach tea instead. It was also decent, but not at all what I was looking for (it tasted like peach Snapple). The tea itself was delicious and really caught that fresh peach flavor I was looking for.

My third iteration is where I decided to use the peach tea, a splash of peach nectar, and the winter spice simple. With the expansion of ingredients, it needed to be mixed up. So naturally I tried a version shaken and another stirred. The shaken version ended up producing a beautiful froth on top, reminding me of an espresso martini.

In the end, for this final iteration, I decided to serve it shaken, up, and in a martini glass to show off the beautiful froth. I started with the goal of a super drinkable peach cobbler to enjoy on the holidays, and ended with a beautiful fauxtini.

Peach Cobbler Fauxtini

Ingredients

• 1.5 oz chilled peach tea

• .25 oz Winter Spice Simple Syrup

• .5 oz peach nectar

• .5 oz lemon juice

• Ice

Steps

1. Add in a shaker all the ingredients and ice

2. Shake vigorously

3. I promise you need to keep shaking

4. Keep going until your hands are really cold and it's no longer fun

5. Strain into a martini glass, top with a pinch of cinnamon and enjoy