Gardenia Mix

AKA Don's Gardenia Mix.
Combines honey, butter and spices and is one of the many flavor-bomb concoctions dreamed up by the legendary Donn Beach of Don the Beachcomber.
Donn Beach was a Tiki pioneer. He opened his famed bar in Los Angeles in the 1930s, which helped to popularize Tiki culture around the country.

Gardenia Mix (Spike's Breezeway version)

4 oz (1 stick) salted butter.
4 oz cream honey or a nice local honey.
3 oz 1:1 cinnamon syrup.
3/4 oz vanilla syrup.
2 1/4 oz Bitter Truth Pimento Dram Allspice or Saint Elisabeth Allspice Dram liqueur.
1.9 g Acacia gum powder. (Optional)
0.2 g Xanthan gum powder. (Optional)

Cut up a stick of butter in a few pieces.
Melt the butter gently and uniformly in a double boiler, stirring occasionally, so that the butter is liquid, warm but not hot. Butter should only separate a little and not turn brown.
Transfer honey to microwaveable bowl.
Microwave honey for about 30 seconds, just enough so that the honey is not as sticky.
Into a food processor or blender container add honey, cinnamon syrup, vanilla syrup, and bitter truth allspice liqueur.
Mix briefly in food processor or blender.
Gently add in 1/2 once of the butter and blend a little more for a few seconds.
Repeat adding 1/2 butter at a time, blending after each addition. Use all the butter.
Add Acacia and Xanthan to help emulsify and stabilize (optional).
Blend for a few seconds more for good luck.
Bottle and store in refrigerator. Can freeze if you reheat before using.

Make a Mystery Gardenia cocktail.
- Into a shaker add 1/2 oz lime juice, 3/4 oz Gardenia mix, 2 oz light rum.
- Add ice and shake well.
- Double strain into a tiki glass with an ice shell.