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) of vodka
- 1 shot (50ml) of apple juice
How to Make an Apple Martini
Fill a chilled cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Add ingredients. Shake for 60 seconds. Strain the liquid into a chilled martini glass.
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 a 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.”
