Apple Fritter Cocktail
Delve into that sticky sweet, fried donut taste with this Apple Fritter Cocktail, featuring rye, apple brandy, reduced apple cider and a tiny bit of cinnamon roll simple syrup. It’s a combination that gives us the apple flavor and nice hit of the baked vanilla notes with the whiskey and apple brandy.
Ingredients
- 1 oz Wilderness Trail rye whiskey
- 1 oz Copper and Kings Floodwall aged brandy
- ½ oz cake vodka
- ½ oz reduced apple cider*
- ¼ oz Trader Vic’s macademia nut liqueur
- ¼ oz Monin’s cinnamon bun syrup
- 2 dashes apple bitters
- 8 drops ginger bitters
- Garnish: apple fan, slice of apple fritter, or cinnamon stick and cinnamon sugar garnish on glass
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients except the garnish in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until well-chilled – about 30 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass garnished with a cinnamon sugar rim and an apple fan. I prefer it on the rocks rather than neat.
Notes
*For the reduced apple cider, I put 4 cups of apple cider on a low simmer for about 3 hours until it reduced to 1 cup. You won’t need to add any sugar. It’s plenty sweet enough.
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