If you aren't a fan of rum, bourbon works well as well. Apples - I like to add some fresh apples to the cocktail.Fireball Whisky - adds a spicy/almost cinnamon-like flavor.Dark rum - adds a sweet toasted sugar flavor.I love making this during the fall with fresh apple cider but apple juice can be used in a pinch. Apple cider - it is called an Apple cider cocktail for a reason.These apple cocktails can be dangerous as the Fireball Whisky complements the apple cider perfectly! Make no mistake, there is a decent amount of alcohol in them so don't go overboard, unless you want to of course. I had multiple people afterward ask for the recipe. Obviously since we picked this drink we thought they were good, but didn't have any idea how popular they'd be at the wedding.

To play off the wedding, we named it Applely Ever After. The one thing we knew is we wanted to have apple involved as we had a fall wedding.Īfter enjoying quite a few different iterations, we settled on a simple yet tasty recipe I found on Food Network that only had three ingredients, four if you wanted some fresh apple in it - an apple cocktail. I remember the summer leading up to the wedding, we were trying different drinks almost every weekend. As has become popular with weddings these days, we wanted to have a signature drink. A few years ago Lauren and I got married in the fall. Pour the fireball and apple cider into a shaker filled with ice. When you think of fall fruit, you think of apples. I love me a good cocktail - from a pumpkin martini to bourbon peach smash to an apple cider Moscow Mule.

Fire ball with apple coder