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How to Make Apple Martinis-6 Variations
APPLETINI-The apple martini, or appletini to the fashionable crowd, is oh so metropolitan and falling just shy of slightly pretentious.
The apple martini is a vodka martini with apple flavoring that can include apple schnapps, apple liqueur, apple flavored vodka, apple juice, or apple cider. Additional names include sour apple martini, green apple martini, and apple cosmopolitan.
What Is In an Apple Martini?
2 shots (50ml) Sour Apple Liqueur/Schnapps
2 shots (50 ml) vodka
1 shot (50ml) apple juice
How to Make an Apple Martini
Fill a chilled cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Add ingredients. Shake for 60 seconds. Strain liquid into a chilled martini glass.
Variations
Fris® Appleberry Martini
2 oz Fris Apple Vodka
1 c. crushed strawberries and raspberries
Dash sugar
99 Apples ® Candy Apple Martini
1 oz 99 Apples
2 ½ oz Vodka
½ oz Grenadine
Bols® Toffee Apple Martini
½ shot Bols®Butterscotch
1 shot Bols® Sour Apple
1 shot Bols® Jonge Jenever
Grey Goose® Apple Crisp Martini
2 parts Grey Goose® L'Orange Flavored Vodka
¼ small apple diced
½ part simple syrup
½ part Tuaca® Liqueur
¾ parts fresh lemon juice
1 lemon wedge and 1 tbsp. cinnamon sugar to line the rim of the glass.
Skyy® Appletini
2 oz Skyy Vodka
1 oz sour apple liqueur
Splash lemon/lime soda
Calories in an Apple Martini
Serving Size: 3-4 oz
Calories: 160
Fat: 0
Carbs: 11 g
Favorite Apple Martini Liqueurs
Apple martinis can be flavored with apple liqueur, apple schnapps, apple flavored vodka, and apple juice. Here are a few of the most popular brands.
DeKuyper® Pucker® Sour Apple Schnapps: This liqueur puts the sour apple in the world famous sour.
Granny's Sour Apple Schnapps: "Granny's Sour Apple Schnapps (34 proof) is bursting with tangy apple flavor that is intense to the core. The tantalizing flavor makes a perfect shooter and a great tasting apple martini."
Sourz® Apple Liqueur: "Vibrant green in colour Sourz Apple is sure to catch your attention. The sweet apple flavor is balanced by the zingy sour finish. A clean and crisp serve."
99 Apples: "The only 99 proof apple-flavored schnapps. Intense tangy apple taste that makes Apple Martinis exceptional -- it's apple to the core. With a taste intensity that stands up to vodka and mixers and distinctive packaging that conveys the premium quality and breezy, colorful, irreverent attitude of our 99 proof schnapps."
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