Apple Bourbon Cocktail

Let me just say, I hope youโ€™ve committed to a menu by now.  This is no time to be deciding between the Harvest Chopped Salad or the Butternut Squash Salad! Theyโ€™re both great and thereโ€™s no wrong choice.  Pick one and make the other one for Christmas.  The only thing you may not have settled on is whether or not you should do a cocktail. I am here to convince you that yes, you should do a fun drink because we are fun people you and I, and we canโ€™t let this Thanksgiving business make us too stressed out.  So, letโ€™s have a drink!

Apple Bourbon Cocktail

When I was on Hallmarkโ€™s Home & Family show last month, Debbie made a delicious apple bourbon cocktail with bourbon, apple juice, lemon juice and maple syrup and I thought, this is the perfect Thanksgiving drink.  I am not much of a drinker, by the way.  But on holidays and special occasions, I like to enjoy a festive cocktail or glass of wine.  Some cocktail recipes are so involved and require so many special ingredients that Iโ€™ll never use again, that I am rather unmotivated.  But this one was so simple that my husband could do it.  I mean, that it wouldnโ€™t be too stressful to prepare with a lot of other things going on and I probably had all the ingredients at home ;).

Apple Bourbon Cocktail

What I like about this apple bourbon cocktail is that itโ€™s not too strong and not too sweet, but itโ€™s light and fresh and feels like fall with the hint of apple.  We made a similar cocktail a few years ago and everyone loved it.  But I misplaced the recipe and I was so happy to try this one on the show.  By the way, they actually served a real cocktail with alcohol during the show and I was buzzed after 1 sip and I still had to do my segment HA!

Apple Bourbon Cocktail

In my quest to analyze every recipe for do-ahead possibilities, I donโ€™t see why you couldnโ€™t mix this up the day before and then serve it on Thanksgiving day, shaken with ice or not.  If you want to garnish it like I did here, slice some apples crosswise into super thin slices (donโ€™t core the apple โ€“ the seeds look pretty) and brush with lemon water so they donโ€™t turn brown.  Lastly, if you donโ€™t have a shot glass with ounce measurements on it, just look at the proportions of the recipe and write down alternative measurements.  Itโ€™s 1 part maple syrup to 1 part lemon juice to 2 parts apple juice/cider to 4 parts bourbon.  So if you want to make a big batch for a crowd, you could do 1/2 cup maple syrup + 1/2 cup lemon juice + 1 cup apple juice/cider + 2 cups bourbon, which would give you a quart to work with.

Cheers!

Apple Bourbon Cocktail

By Hallmark Home and Family
Servings:

Ingredients 

  • 2 ounces bourbon
  • 1 ounce fresh apple juice or cider
  • ยฝ ounce fresh lemon juice
  • ยฝ ounce pure grade A maple syrup
  • ice
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Instructions 

  • Add bourbon, lemon juice, apple juice, and maple syrup to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice.
  • Shake until well chilled, about 15 seconds, and strain into a chilled coupe.
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  1. Margot says:

    Made these for Thanksgiving and they were SO GOOD!!! These are going to become part of the yearly (and fall) tradition.

    1. Pamela says:

      Donโ€™t you love a delicious and easy cocktail?!

  2. Mary says:

    4 parts Bourbon? ๐Ÿ™‚ No wonder you could feel it after one sip!

    1. Pamela says:

      Itโ€™s much less strong to make it one recipe at time because shaking that amount with ice dilutes it just a little more than if you shook a whole pitcher of it (can that be done?)

  3. Courtney B says:

    Thank you for this recipe-I wasnโ€™t planning to make a cocktail (beyond wine and champagne,) but this sounded too good not to try. Made one tonight for a taste test, delicious! Canโ€™t wait for Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving.

    1. Pamela says:

      Itโ€™s so easy, itโ€™s hard to resist! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!