Cooking Lesson #143 Apple Pie On The Rocks

It’s Pie Week

Apple Pie on the Rocks Cocktail

How you doin’? This has been an exciting Pie Week. I bet you were thinking, what is Ed going to do for Happy Hour today? As a Food Consultant I really had to think long and hard on this one. Then… recently, I saw a Larry the Cable Guy’s series on Americans on America (Only in America) where he went to the bad lands of Kentucky and met with moonshiners who were still making Fireball Whisky in their 100-year old stills and running it down the back roads of rural America. So I thought, Fireball Whisky is about as American as Apple Pie. I thought about my presidential hero, Theodore Roosevelt, and what we mixed and poured at T.R.’s Restaurants. It was an inspiration! I hope it will be inspiring to you as well.
 
Now you see what happens when you make a cocktail out of apple juice, moonshine, vanilla and a little cinnamon? You get an Apple Pie on the Rocks. So, here you go!
 
Ingredients
4 ounces apple juice (unfiltered), plus a little for the glass rim
Brown sugar for the glass rim
1 ounce vodka
1 ounce Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 ounce simple syrup
Pinch of ground cinnamon
Ice
Garnish: 1 Cinnamon Stick
 
Instructions

1. Wet the rim of a rocks glass with just a little apple juice and sugar the rim with the brown sugar.
2. In a martini shaker, pour the vodka, fireball, apple juice, simple syrup and ground cinnamon together with a handful of ice cubes. Shake it like you mean it, about 10 times.
3. Pour the contents into the glass without disturbing the sugar rim.
4. Serve chilled and with a cinnamon stick for garnish.

 
ChefSecret: Keep your consumption to not more than 2 cocktails max!
 
Covid-19 quip of the Day: “I recently saw an ad in the classifieds… “Single man with toilet paper seeks woman with hand sanitizer for good clean fun.”
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