Apple Cider Martini

Here is another apple-flavored 'martini' and it's an interesting one. This Apple Cider Martini is designed more for those with drier tastes than many of the other options.

The drink uses a Ultimat Vodka, which is ultra smooth and clean, and makes a nice base for the apple and ginger combination. For the cider, I recommend using the freshest cider available and when it comes to the ginger liqueur, Domaine de Canton is a nice option. The Velvet Falernum is the finishing touch that brings everything together. This is a versatile cocktail and can fit any occasion. It may even become your new favorite apple tini.

Prep Time: 3?minutes

Total Time: 3?minutes

Yield: 1 Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 oz Ultimat Vodka
• 1 1/2 oz apple cider
• 1/4 oz ginger liqueur
• splash of Velvet Falernum

Preparation:

1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker.
2. Shake well and pour into a cocktail glass.

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Hot Apple Cider Recipes

I recently assembled a collection of the top Hot Apple Cider Recipes on About.com. It includes a chai-spiced apple cider, a few incredibly easy apple cider recipes, a few alcoholic apple cider recipes, and more. If you're ever in the mood for something besides coffee or tea (Crazy talk!), I hope you'll check them out.

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Hot Apple Cider Recipes

This collection of the top Hot Apple Cider Recipes includes all the best alcoholic, non-alcoholic and easy hot cider recipes on About.com.

Extra-Spiced Hot Apple Cider Recipe

Lindsey Goodwin

This step-by-step tutorial explains how to make extra-spiced hot cider in a crockpot. It's an easy, non-alcoholic cider recipe that's great for serving crowds during the holidays.

Hot Buttered Apple Cider Recipe

This easy apple cider recipe includes butter, brown sugar and dark rum for a rich flavor. Like Hot Buttered Rum, it's a wonderful drink to help you warm up after time in the snow.

If you like this recipe, be sure to check out this Hot Buttered Cider Recipe from About.com Cooking for Kids.

Chai-Spiced Hot Apple Cider Recipe

Lindsey Goodwin

This unusual hot cider recipe features traditional masala chai spices, like allspice, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger, for a deeply spiced flavor. It also includes a little almond milk, which adds richness to the drink.

Similarly, Preeti's Spiced Apple Cider Recipe uses many Indian spices for its warming flavor.

Quick Cranberry Apple Cider Recipe

This easy apple cider recipe is mulled in the microwave. If you are looking for an easy hot cider recipe, you might also enjoy one of the following microwave cider recipes:

• Hot Apple Streudel Recipe
• Microwave Apple Cider Recipe
• Microwave Caramel Apple Cider Recipe

Wassail Hot Cider Recipe

Wassail is a traditional German version of hot apple cider. It's typically served in the fall and winter, once apples are harvested. This Wassail recipe is made with orange juice, lemon juice and apple juice, as well as a range of spices (including crystallized ginger). If you like this recipe, be sure to check out this Basic Wassail Recipe and this Crockpot Wassail Recipe, too.

Maple Mulled Cider Recipe

Start with store-bought apple cider. Mull with warming spices and real maple syrup. Serve hot. Delicious!

Hot Apple Toddy Recipe

This alcoholic apple cider recipe from About.com Cocktails can be made with apple brandy or with whiskey. It's a variation on a Hot Toddy, which is usually made with whiskey, hot water or tea, and lemon. If you like spiked apple cider recipes, I'd also recommend the following:

• Hot Gold Apple Cider Punch Recipe
• Hot Apple Pie Cocktail Recipe
• Mulled Apple Cider Recipe

Salem Hot Apple Cider Recipe

This traditional New England hot apple cider recipe includes spices, orange juice and brandy. If you like New England-style cider, check out this collection of cold and hot apple cider recipes from About.com New England Travel.

Hot Apple Cider Video Recipe

If you prefer your recipes in video format, this is the best hot apple cider recipe for you.

Sweet & Spicy Hot Apple Cider Recipe

Sweet & Spicy Hot Apple Cider takes store-bought apple cider and spices it up with cinnamon, allspice, cloves, lemon zest, brown sugar, dark rum and Butterscotch Schnapps. As the name suggests, it's about as sweet as it is spicy!

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Hot Gold Apple Cider

Everyone has a recipe for Hot Apple Cider, the Hot Gold Apple Cider is my version. I like this one because it takes the average spiked version of the drink and adds a little sparkle along with cinnamon by adding Goldschlager and its tiny gold flakes. I often leave this warming on the stove, in a crockpot or insulated punch bowl for hours. It fills the house with a lovely aroma and allows guests to ladle drinks as they please. Because of the gold touch I also don't strain the spices like many recipes call for, this also allows the spices and orange slices do their infusion magic longer.

Non-Alcoholic Hot Spiced Cider

Prep Time: 20?minutes

Cook Time: 1?hour

Total Time: 1?hour, 20?minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 quart apple cider
• 1/2 750ml bottle dark rum
• 1/2 750ml bottle Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps
• 4 cinnamon sticks
• 6 whole allspice
• 10 whole cloves
• 1 orange, sliced

Preparation:

1. Combine ingredients in a large saucepan, stir and cover.
2. Heat slowly to a boil, stirring occasionally.
3. Lower heat and allow to simmer for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally.
4. Transfer to insulated punch bowl and serve in mugs.

Makes about 15 servings

This can also be made and served in a slow cooker using the technique in this recipe for Crockpot Hot Apple Cider.

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Apple Cider Recipes

If you're looking for a spiked apple cider recipe, non-alcoholic hot cider recipe, easy mulled cider recipe, unusual apple cider recipe, large-batch mulled cider recipe or a recipe for mulling spices, this collection of apple cider recipes has something for you.

Alcoholic Apple Cider Recipes
Apple cider is traditionally spiked with rum or brandy, but it can also be mixed with other spirits. These alcogholic apple cider recipes include ingredients like dark rum, pear brandy, whiskey, butterscotch schnapps and Tuaca.

• This apple cider video explains how to make apple cider with rum.
• This Hot Buttered Cider recipe is spiked with rum and flavored with a dab of butter.
• Sweet & Spicy Apple Cider includes rum and butterscotch schnapps.
• Salem Apple Cider includes brandy.
• Hot Apple Cider Struedel can be made with or without vodka.
• Apple Cider au Pear features brandy and pear brandy. I recommend using Clear Creek Pear Brandy.
• This Apple Cider Shandy recipe is a mix of oatmeal stout and chilled, non-alcoholic, sparkling apple cider.
• Hot Gold Apple Cider Punch is served with dark rum and Goldschlager cinnamon schnapps.
• Mulled Apple Cider is a brandy-spiked cider that can be mulled in a slow cooker.
• This Hot Apple Toddy is a variation on a traditional Hot Toddy. It can be made with whiskey or with apple brandy.
• Hot Apple Pie is an apple cider cocktail made with Tuaca liqueur.
• This Basic Wassail Recipe can be made with or without brandy.
• This Mulled Apple Cider recipe can be prepared with rum, brandy or Calvados.

Non-Alcoholic Apple Cider Recipes

Whether you're making hot cider for kids or adults, non-alcoholic apple cider is a great option. From a basic guide to mulling cider to recipes for hot buttered cider, maple mulled cider and more, these are the top non-alcoholic apple cider recipes to consider making for your friends and family.

• This guide on how to make mulled apple cider is a basic non-alcoholic apple cider recipe.
• This Hot Buttered Cider recipe is a kid-friendly variation on Hot Buttered Rum.
• Wassail is a traditional German version of apple cider. Crockpot Wassail can be made in a slow cooker.
• This Chai-Spiced Apple Cider recipe is spiked with milk and tea instead of alcohol.
• Although you can add alcohol to this Crockpot Spiced Apple Cider, it's very flavorful without any.
• Maple Mulled Apple Cider is a great drink for kids to enjoy.
• Mulled Cranberry Apple Cider features orange zest and fresh cranberries.
• Quick Mulled Cranberry Apple Cider is very easy to make.
• When prepared without vodka, Hot Apple Cider Struedel makes a great kids' drink. The apple slice and caramel apple dipping sauce make it a fun and colorful drink to sip.
• Preeti's Spiced Apple Cider is an easy apple cider recipe that features the same spices used in masala chai.
• Hot Spiced Apple Cider is a quick, easy apple cider recipe.

Easy Apple Cider Recipes

These recipes require very little work. Whether they're made in a Crockpot or microwave, or simply prepared quickly on the stove, they are much easier to make than most apple cider recipes.

• Mulling cider is incredibly easy with these illustrated step-by-step instructions for Crockpot apple cider.
• Crockpot Apple Cider is an easy way to make enough apple cider for 20 people.
• Mulled Apple Cider and Crockpot Wassail can be prepared in a slow cooker.
• Basic Wassail is very easy to make in a Crockpot.
• Maple Mulled Cider is a quick, easy and flavorful stovetop apple cider recipe.
• Although it's made on a stovetop, Hot Spiced Apple Cider is quick and easy to make.
• Quick Mulled Cranberry Apple Cider can be made in a microwave.
• Hot Apple Cider Struedel can be made in the microwave.
• Microwave Apple Cider is so easy that you can make it on a boat -- no joke!

Unusual Apple Cider Recipes

These apple cider recipes step outside the norms for apple cider.

• This Chai-Spiced Apple Cider recipe includes tea and milk.
• Mulled Cranberry Apple Cider features fresh cranberries.
• Citrus-Free, Additive-Free Apple Cider is a good choice for people who have citrus allergies or sensitivities to food additives.

Large-Batch Apple Cider Recipes

Making apple cider for a crowd? Try one of these large-batch apple cider recipes.

• Crockpot Spiced Apple Cider serves up to eight people.
• Maple Mulled Cider and Preeti's Spiced Apple Cider each serve eight to 10 people.
• Sweet & Spicy Apple Cider and Hot Buttered Cider recipe each serve about 10 people.
• Mulled Apple Cider serves 10 to 12 people.
• The spiked Hot Gold Apple Cider Punch makes 15 servings.
• Crockpot Apple Cider serves 20.
• Wassail serves about 24 people.

Apple Cider Mulling Spice Mixes

You can prepare mulling mixes for quick and easy apple cider preparation anytime. Some people like to give attractively packaged mulling spices like these away as holiday gifts.

• Apple Mulling Spice Mix is a basic apple cider mulling spice mix.
• Whole Spice Mulling Mix uses whole spices for a full-flavored apple cider.

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Tully 10 Cider

This Tully 10 Cider is a sort of a Mint Julep adapted for fall and it is nothing less than spectacular. Two great Irish drinks come together here, one being Tullamore Dew 10yo Irish Whiskey and the other Magners Apple Cider (hard cider at 4.5% abv). You can use a non-alcoholic apple cider, but I strongly recommend sticking with Magners. Adding mint and lime to that combination brings some lighter aspects to the cocktail, making it a touch more refreshing.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Tullamore Dew 10 Year Old
• 1 1/2 oz Magners Apple Cider (or non-alcoholic cider)
• 1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup or pinch of sugar
• 2 mint leaves for muddling
• mint sprig for garnish

Preparation:

1. Place the mint and simple syrup or sugar into a pint glass.
2. Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and to release the oil and aroma of the mint.
3. Add the whiskey, cider and lime.
4. Fill with ice and shake well.
5. Strain into a tall glass filled with fresh ice.
6. Garnish with the mint sprig.

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