Easy Appletini Recipe - Sour Apple Martini (2024)

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What alcohol goes with appletini? ›

Vodka: The bones of your appletini. Vodka is the neutral base that lets the apple schnapps shine. Use your go-to vodka brand. Sour apple liqueur: Sweet-tart sour apple liqueur (aka schnapps) brings the apple to the appletini.

Ingredients. Apple puree and juice from concentrate (60%), sugar, acidifier: malic acid, natural flavor, thickeners: pectin, xanthan gum, antioxidant: ascorbic acid, preservative: potassium sorbate.

What's in an appletini? There's many ways to shake up an appletini, like using fancy, imported French apple brandy (Calvados) and hand-pressed apple juice. But there's a much easier, way, and this is it! This recipe calls for vodka, simple syrup, lemon juice, and an American bar mainstay—apple schnapps.

The principal ingredients of the appletini, as it came to be known, are vodka and Sour Apple Pucker, a radiant, possibly radioactive green schnapps that gives the drink its signature hue and melted Jolly Rancher taste.

An apple martini (appletini for short) is a co*cktail containing vodka and one or more of apple juice, apple cider, apple liqueur, or apple brandy. Appletini (aka apple martini) co*cktail. Top view of an apple martini.

Apple schnapps is a sweetened apple liqueur most often used in Appletinis. Though in the past you used to be stuck with the sweet tart brands like DeKuyper and Hiram Walker, now there are some higher quality examples available.

Sour Apple Pucker | Apple Schnapps Liqueur | DeKuyper®

What is simple syrup? Simple syrup is a liquid sweetener made by dissolving sugar in water. That's literally it. Simple syrup disperses sweetness evenly throughout beverages of any temperature, making it a key component of many iced drinks and co*cktails (like sparkling beet lemonade or a whiskey sour).

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This apple martini is refreshingly crisp with the perfect balance of apple flavor — not too sweet, not too sour. Apple martinis, also known as “appletinis,” are very simple to shake up at home and only require a handful of easy-to-find ingredients.

Does sour apple mix expire? ›

A: Yes, it does have an expiration date. Best apple martini mix!!

A simple and tasty aperitif, vodka and apple juice is an elegant, tart mixed drink that can be garnished with a slice of apple for extra effect.

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