Scotch Sour Cocktail with Cinnamon and Honey

Cinnamon and honey are always friends, and a cinnamon-pure honey syrup has endless uses - sweeten your tea with it, pour it over ice cream, or drizzle on your oatmeal. In a cocktail context? Try it in a Scotch sour, where smoky blended Scotch and lemon make for a refreshing drink with the warmth of cinnamon and slight floral note of pure honey coming through. Once you've made the cinnamon pure honey, it's just a three-ingredient drink, but tastes far more complex.

Cinnamon-Honey Syrup:
2 sticks cinnamon
1 cup pure honey

Cocktail:
2 oz blended Scotch
1 oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
¾ oz cinnamon-honey syrup

Make the Syrup:
In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup of water to a boil with the cinnamon sticks. Remove from heat and let sit for 10 minutes. Stir in pure honey and refrigerate overnight. The next day, discard the cinnamon sticks.

Make the Cocktail:
Combine Scotch, lemon juice, and syrup in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously into a rocks glass filled with ice.

Makes 1 cocktail.