4 Amazing Snack-Inspired Cocktails You Need to Try

Here's what happens when booze meets your favorite snacks.

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Popcorn and a movie. Peanut butter and jelly. Beyoncé and Hov. When two of your favorite things come together, the result is always fantastic. Point in case: booze and snacks.

The following cocktails combine your favorite spirits with the flavor elements of your favorite snack foods to amazing effect. Attempt these at home: 4 Amazing Snack-Inspired Cocktails You Need to Try.

All drink recipes courtesy of Manhattan-based mixologist, IgorZukowiec and Alchemiq Mixology Services.

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Baked Cinnamon

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Inspired by Stacy’s Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips

Ingredients:

2 oz. Johnnie Walker Black Label

1.5 oz. Unfiltered Apple Cider

0.5 Fresh Lemon Juice

0.5 oz. Cinnamon Syrup*

2 dashes of Fee Brothers Whiskey Barrel-Aged Bitters

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients in a mixing cup. Add ice and shake vigorously. Double strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Sprinkle cinnamon on top.

*Cinnamon Syrup –simmer 2 cups of sugar with one cup of water and 4 cinnamon sticks for 5 min.  Cool it down before using

To try the real thing and compare tastes, visit Stacy’s at stacyssnacks.com

Smoky Limes

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Inspired by Krave’s Chili Lime Jerky 

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cup

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Inspired by Popcorn Indiana’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Popcorn

Dark Chocolate & Sea Salt Martini

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Inspired by KIND Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt bar 

Ingredients:

2 oz. Kettle One Vodka

2 oz. Unsweetened Almond Milk

0.75 oz. Turbinado Organic Cane Syrup *(recipe below)

0.5 oz. Amaretto

1 spoon of 100% Natural Unsweetened Cocoa

Chilled coupe glass with Cocoa/Sea Salt/Sugar rim**

Instructions:

Prepare a coupe glass by chilling it in a freezer. Once chilled, wet an outside surface of a rim of a glass with a dash of a cane simple syrup* and dip in a cocoa/salt/sugar powder mix** (recipes below).

Combine all ingredients in a mixing cup.  Add ice and shake vigorously.  Double strain into the prepared coupe glass.

*Turbinado Organic Cane Syrup – simmer 2 cups of an organic turbinado sugar with one cup of water until sugar dissolves.  Cool it doesn before using

**Cocoa/Sea Salt/Sugar Rim Powder – mix equal amounts of 100% natural unsweetened cocoa, an organic turbinado sugar and a sea salt.

To try the real thing and compare tastes, visit KIND Healthy Snacks at kindsnacks.com

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