Apple Cider Margarita

Happy Friday everyone!  

We've made it, another week in the books.  

This week in our home our oldest completed his last day of his Freshmen year of High School.  We officially have a Sophomore!  

WAIT...........what??  

I just can't believe how quickly these past 15 1/2 years have gone by. 

Also on Saturday our second oldest tests for his brown belt in Tae Kwon Do!  We're all super excited about that!  

He also only has 2 more weeks of school left until he becomes a 5th grader....breathe.

My girls love drinking apple cider.  

We always have an open container in the fridge so I thought, why not use it in a cocktail?  

My husband and I have had margaritas on the brain lately, so I decided to try creating an apple cider flavored margarita.

I learned that with this cocktail I had to add more apple cider then I initially thought because the flavor of it just doesn't come out as well as I had thought.  

As a last minute idea, I threw some cinnamon into the mixture, which greatly improved it.  

This margarita is good.  

Not my favorite flavored margarita, but still good.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for an Apple Cider Margarita:

• 1 ounce tequila
• 1/2 ounce cointreau
• 1/2 ounce orange juice
• 3 1/2 ounces apple cider
• 1 pinch of ground cinnamon

On a separate plate put equal amounts of super fine sugar and ground cinnamon.  Mix it up well and rim your cocktail glass with the mixture.

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and dump everything into your rimmed cocktail glass.

Here is to a fun filled weekend!  I hope you all enjoy it!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Lemon Champagne Cocktail

Day 319

Lemon Champagne Cocktail

1 shot out of 5

One more day, one more day until New Years Eve!  

We've been running errands and picking up the Christmas toy explosion that happened here, all day long!  

Time for a cocktail and some dinner....yes we're eating late.  

I am sticking with another recipe from tablespoon.com for tonight's cocktail.

I gave tonight's cocktail 1 shot out of 5.  

WOW, I really didn't like this cocktail and either did my husband.  

Some sips make me react with full on convulsions........and some not as dramatic, but still make me squinch up my eyes and face.  

I don't use gin a whole lot, so I was really hoping that this cocktail would be a winner.  

Oh well, one more champagne cocktail to go before the New Years Eve countdown, let's hope it's a winner!!  

I'm going to post it earlier tomorrow just in case it's a good one so that it can be an option for you all.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Lemon Champagne Cocktail:

• 4 oz champagne
• 1 oz gin
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• 1 1/2 tsp superfine sugar

In a champagne flute add all of your ingredients except the sugar.  Give it a quick stir and then add your sugar.  You want to stir your cocktail until your sugar is gone.  Stir it well, but you will want to stop part of the way through to let you cocktail settle, and then continue stirring.

Here's to a 1 shot rating.......haven't had one of those in a while!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Apple Champagne

Day 317

Apple Champagne

3.5 shots out of 5

Three more days until New Years Eve.  

My husband got his costume today and my oldest son and myself need to get ours very soon.  

I am really looking forward to New Years Eve, I almost can't stand it!  

One of my very best friends is driving three hours to be here with us for the party which gets me all happy and excited when I think about it.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3.5 shots out of 5.  

I am not the biggest champagne fan.  

On New Years Eve I usually take my couple of sips and then pick back up my beer or cocktail that I have been drinking and move on with my night.  

This cocktail is one where you don't get a nosefull of bubbles when you drink it.  

The apple juice takes that away and the sugar sweetens it up just a wee bit.  

This is a pretty good cocktail, not an overly flavorful cocktail......but not one that would make me think of New Years due to the fact that it's not really bubbly.  

I found tonight's cocktail at tablespoon.com.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for an Apple Champagne:

• 4 oz champagne
• 3 oz apple juice
• 1/4 tsp superfine sugar

In a champagne flute or bud vase pour in your champagne and apple juice and stir.  Then stir in your sugar until it is dissolved.

Here's to enjoying the last three days and so many hours of 2012.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady