Mock Apple-Cider Sour
Play mixologist with this fizzy apple-cider sour. The flamed orange peel garnish provides a hint of smoke to mimic whiskey's oaked taste.
- Level: Easy
- Total: 5 min
- Active: 5 min
- Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients
1 small sugar cube
1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 ounces apple cider
2 ounces cranberry-raspberry flavor seltzer
1 spherical piece cocktail ice
1 whole apple chip
One 2- to 3-inch piece orange peel
Directions
Special equipment:
a sphere ice cube mold- Add the sugar cube, lemon juice, apple cider and seltzer to a 6- to 8-ounce Old Fashion glass. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Drop in the ice cube sphere and apple chip. Flame the orange peel by simultaneously bending the peel, skin-side out, and holding a match or lighter near the peel to ignite the spraying orange oil. Rub the peel around the rim of the glass before dropping it in the drink.
