Hot Buttered Rum
2oz amber rum, 8ds allspice dram, 1bsp vanilla liqueur, 4oz hot water, 1tbsp butter, 1tsp cane syrup, several shooks cinnamon, two cloves
I love hot drink season. There's something so nice about serving someone a warm drink that's so buttery it's almost a pastry. One recipe I found called for 1/2tsp butter which is just comically small. The one major flaw with this mix is that it puts in all the water first, which makes it too cool by the time everything's all mixed. If I were to make it again (and I will!) I'd mix all the liquid ingredients separately, dissolve the syrup in half the water, mix the two, and then add the last half of the water to get everything nice and toasty for serving.
One cocktail book I have advocates for just shoving a red hot poker into the glass and heating it that way, but I think that's a little too hardcore for me.