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  • Serves: 4-6 servings

Honeycrisp & Bourbon Spiced Cider

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Category: Beverages

 Ingredients List

  • 6 cups honeycrisp cider (or any apple cider of your choice)
  • peel of 1 lemon (removing all the pith)
  • 10 whole cloves
  • 5 cardamom pods
  • 3 star anise
  • 2 cinnamon sticks
  • 1/2 piece of fresh ginger, peeled
  • 1 teaspoon light brown sugar (optional)
  • 2 cups bourbon
  • garnish:
  • 2 honeycrisp apples (or sweet apples of your choice), thinly sliced crosswise (about
  • 1/4 inch)

 Directions

1. Place cider, lemon peel, cloves, star anise, cinnamon sticks, ginger, and sugar into a medium pot and bring to a simmer.

2. Simmer for 10 minutes, cover, remove from heat, and steep for 1 hour. Place mixture over stove again and heat through until warmed.

3. Strain mixture and stir in bourbon.

4. To serve: Using a 1 ½ -2 inch circle cutter, cut star centers out from the thin slices of apple and remove any remaining seeds. Pour cider into individual mugs and top with “stary” apple cut outs and serve.

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