Crafting Unique Ornament Mocktails with Chateau Luxe
Mocktails are the perfect way to include everyone in the holiday spirit. Why not impress your guests with something a little unique. Chateau Luxe is an award-winning destination for events, parties, weddings, and other celebrations. Chateau Luxe is located at 1175 E. Lone Cactus Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85024. Visit www.chateauluxeaz.com for more information.
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00:00 Whether it's for a holiday party or just a festive night in, holiday mocktails are all the rage this year.
00:07 Here to show us how to make a delicious ornament mocktail is Justin from Chateau Lux.
00:12 Welcome, Justin.
00:13 >> Thanks.
00:14 So this is a fun and trending TikTok Christmas ornament mocktail.
00:19 >> A trending TikTok ornament mocktail.
00:23 Okay.
00:24 I love it.
00:25 So I drank a lot of mocktails over this past year because I was pregnant.
00:30 So I will say I feel like I'm a bit of a mocktail connoisseur, if you will.
00:35 >> You can leave it if you want.
00:37 >> I definitely don't.
00:38 But you are the lead mixologist for Chateau Lux, which is an amazing event space in town.
00:43 >> Yes.
00:44 >> So this is kind of something along the lines of what you could have there if you were having a holiday party there, if you were going there for an event of some kind.
00:52 This is kind of the stuff that you'll see there.
00:55 >> We can create you pretty much anything you can think of, even these trending TikTok cocktails.
00:59 >> I love this.
01:00 So show us how to make this at home.
01:02 >> To keep the color pretty, we're going to make this a cranberry mocktail.
01:05 So we're going to start with cranberry juice.
01:07 I'm going to kind of lead and you're going to follow.
01:09 So we're going to do two ounces of cranberry juice.
01:11 That's the big side of your jigger.
01:13 >> Two ounces of cranberry juice to start this guy out.
01:15 >> Cranberry is really nice because it's both sweet and tart.
01:17 So it's kind of already naturally balanced.
01:19 >> Great.
01:20 >> And then we're going to use a spiritless whiskey.
01:22 There's a lot of really great companies doing nonalcoholic spirits.
01:25 >> I love that.
01:26 >> So this is a kind of a nonalcoholic whiskey.
01:28 So this is going to be one ounce in your jigger there.
01:30 >> Thank you.
01:31 And so if you were someone who was going to imbibe, I think I just did a lot of that, but if you were someone who was wanting to have alcohol, you could just replace that spiritless whiskey with an actual whiskey.
01:41 >> You absolutely could.
01:42 >> I love it.
01:43 >> Yes.
01:44 The beautiful thing about most mocktails is you really could just add a little booze if you wanted to booze it up.
01:47 >> There you go.
01:48 >> And since I'm not pregnant anymore, I am going to be boozing it up.
01:51 So then you would add, is this lemon juice?
01:53 >> This is lemon juice, yes.
01:54 >> Okay, fabulous.
01:55 >> So we're getting our cranberry, our base, our little bit of whiskey, some bright acidity from the lemon juice.
02:00 And to balance that with some sweet, we're going to do some maple syrup.
02:02 >> Okay.
02:03 >> Just a half an ounce of that.
02:04 >> Half an ounce of maple syrup.
02:05 This gives it a little bit of sweetness, like you said.
02:07 >> A little bit of richness, some good fall and winter flavors as well.
02:10 Halfway up, perfect.
02:11 And just for a little complexity, we're going to do a little bit of cinnamon syrup.
02:14 I purchased this from Monin, but you could definitely make your own, which is sugar, cinnamon, and water.
02:19 >> So this is something great if you're doing this at home.
02:21 This would be a really easy thing to just make yourself.
02:23 >> Yeah, absolutely.
02:24 >> If you have cinnamon, sugar, water.
02:26 >> Yeah, you can literally just cook down sugar, water, and cinnamon.
02:28 But Monin makes great syrups, usually for coffees and things like that.
02:32 >> And this is something that is like a simple syrup kind of thing.
02:35 >> Yes, essentially.
02:36 >> But with your cinnamon because it's holiday.
02:37 >> Just a little extra flavor.
02:38 >> I love it.
02:39 >> And then lastly, we're just going to do a little bit of barrel-aged bitters, but these are non-alcoholic bitters from Fee Brothers.
02:42 >> Thank you.
02:43 >> They actually make lots of great flavors that are not alcoholic, and they're really fun to use in mocktails.
02:46 >> I love it.
02:47 >> Your ice is already in your tin.
02:48 We're just going to pour our mocktail over the ice.
02:50 >> Okay, so I have a question.
02:51 If you don't have a shaker at home.
02:53 >> A protein shaker, a mason jar, really anything that seals.
02:57 You can shake.
02:58 There we go.
02:59 >> Ooh, got to do it on both sides.
03:03 >> All right.
03:04 >> How did you -- I'm going to have you do that for me.
03:09 >> There we go.
03:10 >> Thank you, sir.
03:11 >> And now we're going to take our little bulb and our strainer and we're just going to fill our bulb up.
03:15 >> And where did you get this little bulb, do you know?
03:17 >> I believe this was just from a department store.
03:19 This is really nothing super fancy.
03:20 >> Fabulous.
03:21 >> A lot of this is the presentation, and it's not really too pertinent what type of glassware it is.
03:26 >> Okay, gotcha.
03:27 >> So this is kind of fun decoration.
03:29 You can gussy this up in any way you want, but I also did freeze some cranberry into just -- this is regular cranberry juice just frozen through a cocktail mold.
03:36 So if you wanted to present it on ice like this, you can just pour it up like that.
03:40 >> Oh, my gosh.
03:41 So this is amazing because this is going to wow your guests at home.
03:44 You have the cranberry ice cubes, you have this beautiful ornament.
03:47 I mean, look at how gorgeous that is.
03:49 >> You can even premake these and just have them ready to pour when your guests arrive.
03:52 >> And you saw how easy that was.
03:54 I mean, if I can do it, guys, then anybody can do it because this is -- I mean, I am not crafty, as everybody knows.
03:59 But, yeah, this is beautiful.
04:01 This is something that you would love to have walking around Chateau Luxe for a holiday party or something fabulous at home.
04:06 So I'm going to pour mine and tell everybody where they can find more information about Chateau Luxe.
04:11 >> So our website is chateauluxeaz.com.
04:14 We're up at 7th Street and the 101 up north a little bit.
04:17 But it is a very large and beautiful space, and we've got some really cool things coming down the line, which is why I came on as a mixologist.
04:23 So keep an eye out on us for more great stuff coming soon.
04:26 >> I love it.
04:27 Oh, my gosh.
04:28 Well, this cocktail -- mocktail, excuse me -- looks fabulous and would be an amazing addition to any event this season.
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