Apple Cocktails

Apples have long been a favorite cocktail flavor. Whether it is hot apple cider, chilled apple juice or one of the tasty apple brandies, the flavor of the apple makes a great foundation for many mixed drinks. You will find that apple mixes well with a variety of flavors from the obvious cinnamon and caramel to the not-so-obvious mango and rosemary (find more flavor suggestions).

Apple, Apple Juice and Apple Cider Cocktails:
These drinks include apples in some of the purest and most popular forms. Apple slices and apple juice give drinks a nice and pure apple flavor. When you are buying apple juice look for a bottle with the fewest additives for the truest flavor or, better yet, go with an organic apple juice as these typically have no extra ingredients. Apple cider is a favorite for a number of hot cocktails, especially for those chilly days of autumn when apples are in season.

• A Nice Warm Drink
• Apple Cider Martini
• Apple Cider Shandy
• Apple Crisp
• Apple Pie Martini
• Apple Sour
• Autumn Delight
• Autumn Wind
• Basil North
• Berry Sweetheart (non-alcoholic)
• Big Apple Manhattan
• Bramble Bar Cocktail
• Candy Apple
• Caramel Apple Pie
• Cherry Bitch
• Cinnaster Apple
• Cinnaster Jack (shooter)
• Designated Appletini
• Durango Royale
• Dusk in Eden
• Early Autumn
• Envelope Please
• Falling Leaf Fizz
• Fall into Navan Punch
• Fine Wolf (non-alcoholic)
• Great Gazoo (non-alcoholic)
• Halloween Harvest Punch
• Harvest Moon
• Homecoming Caipirinha
• Hot Apple Pie
• Hot Apple Toddy
• Hot Baked Apple Toddy
• Hot Cinn Apple Toddy
• Hot Gold Apple Cider
• Jack-o-Lantern Punch
• Kissy Suzuki
• Maca Martini
• May Day
• Old-fashioned 101
• Peaches and Scream
• Pumpkin Divine
• Pumpkin Patch
• Pumpkin Punch
• Red Apple & Bourbon Fizz
• Royal Wedding Punch
• Spring Fever (non-alcoholic)
• Steelers Cider
• Stone Fence Cocktail
• Sweet Adeline (non-alcoholic)
• Thanksgiving Cider
• Toffee Apple
• Warm Apple Pie
• Wassail

Apple Spirit Cocktails:
Apple flavored distilled spirits are nothing new. Apple brandy - and apple whiskey in some cases - is a classic cocktail ingredients which you will find scattered throughout many of the first bartending guides. Today, we also have apple infused rums and vodkas to play with and a few of these cocktails use those. Another modern convenience are the myriad of often sour apple liqueurs and schnapps and while not the highest quality spirits available, they are just that, convenient. Apples are also perfect for homemade infusions (ie. Apple-Pear Gin) so you can use the fruit to experiment with your own apple spirits.

• 4 Point Cocktail
• Apple Cin
• Apple Margarita
• Apple Martini
• Candy Apple
• Caramel Appletini
• Coronation
• Corpse Reviver
• Deauville
• Dutch Appel Sangria
• Full House
• Golden Dawn
• Golden Green Apple Cocktail
• Honeymoon
• Hot and Fruity Toddy
• Indian Summer
• Jack Rose
• Jersey Cocktail
• Jersey Flashlight
• Jolly Rancher
• La Canne Creuse
• Natural Selection
• Orange Jaxx
• Pink Lady
• Star Cocktail
• Starry Lime
• Sweet Summer Days
• Third Rail
• Tully 10 Cider
• Washington Apple
• Xalapa Punch

This collection of cocktail recipes is an ongoing project and is updated regularly.

Browse drink recipes:
More Cocktails by Flavor ... Brandy ... Gin ... Rum ... Tequila ... Vodka ... Whiskey ... Non-spirited Mocktails ... A to Z Cocktail Recipes

Would you like to receive cocktail tips and recipes every week? Sign up for the free cocktail newsletter and recipe of the week here and get the latest edition sent directly to your email.