Making bourbon cherries at home is an easy DIY recipe project to stock your bar cart or to give as a hostess gift. I found these to be the best bourbon cherries and everyone always asks for my bourbon cherries recipe. It is up to you how many bourbon soaked cherries you will use to garnish your cocktail. I won’t tell!
If you are looking for other homemade bar items be sure to try lilac syrup, lilac infused alcohol, grapefruit infused gin, cucumber infused gin, thyme infused bourbon and homemade limoncello.
Drunken Bourbon Cherries Recipe Easily Made At Home
The other week my husband and I had the rare opportunity to have a night out with out the kids. We decided that instead of picking one place to have our date we thought it would be fun to go from restaurant to restaurant and have an appetizer and drink. We were able to sample delicious cocktails and lots of yummy eats along the way. I think we are going to have to do this again soon!
One of the restaurants we went to had this incredible Manhattan and the garnish was a boozy cherry. It was like the cherry had taken a deep dive in bourbon and came up super happy.
It made me happy and it inspired me to make make this post.
PS. These are super easy, super delicious and make a great gift!
Bourbon Cherries Ingredients:
- Dried Cherries
- Bourbon, Jim Beam used in this recipe
- Vanilla Simple Syrup
Materials:
- 4 ounce Canning Jars
- Free Printable
Vanilla Simple Syrup Ingredients:
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 split vanilla bean
Vanilla Simple Syrup Recipe:
- Bring the sugar, water and the split vanilla bean to a boil.
- Cool.
- Store in the refrigerator.
You might have an extra vanilla bean left over from making my 2 ingredient home made vanilla recipe.
How to make bourbon cherries
- Fill the canning jars 2/3 full with dried cherries.
- Don’t over stuff the jars because the dried cherries will absorb the delicious liquids and expand.
- Fill the jars 1/4 full with the vanilla simple syrup.
- Top off the jars with bourbon.
- Add the lid and ring.
- Allow them to sit over night.
- The longer they sit the more delicious they become!
- Print out the free printable, and affix the tag to the top of the jar.
- Give as a gift.
More Cocktail recipes:
- Lilac martini
- Lilac Bee’s Knees
- Spicy Peach Bourbon Smash
- Homemade limoncello
- Cucumber infused gin
- Grapefruit infused gin
- Homemade strawberry vodka
- Rhubarb Smash
- Spicy Peach Bourbon Smash Cocktail
I have a free printable for you! Download it HERE.
I would advise printing it on card stock and cutting them out with a 2 inch round punch. If you don’t have the punch, scissors work just as well….it is just not as fast. A fix the printable with a small dot of glue.
I would advise storing the cherries in the refrigerator.
Serve your drunken bourbon cherries as a garnish to your cocktail. Or eat them on their own. No judgement here.
Bourbon Cherries
Ingredients
Bourbon Cherries Ingredients:
- Dried Cherries
- Bourbon Jim Beam used in this recipe
- Vanilla Simple Syrup
Vanilla Simple Syrup Ingredients:
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 split vanilla bean
Instructions
Vanilla Simple Syrup Recipe:
- Bring the sugar, water and the split vanilla bean to a boil.
- Cool.
- Store in the refrigerator.
How to make bourbon cherries
- Fill the canning jars 2/3 full with dried cherries.
- Don't over stuff the jars because the dried cherries will absorb the delicious liquids and expand.
- Fill the jars 1/4 full with the vanilla simple syrup.
- Top off the jars with bourbon.
- Add the lid and ring.
- Allow them to sit over night.
- The longer they sit the more delicious they become!
- Print out the free printable, and affix the tag to the top of the jar.
- Give as a gift.
Notes
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this post originally published Dec 23, 2015 .