Apple Smash

Apple Smash

from cooking.nytimes.com

If fall had a signature cocktail this might be it. Slice some apples, muddle. Add rum, lemon juice, simple syrup, a dash of bitters, a sprinkle of cinnamon and shake. Serve it over crushed ice with an apple slice dusted with cinnamon. Buffalo check flannel shirt optional.

Ingredients

  • 2 large apple slices, like Honeycrisp
  • 2 ounces white rum
  • 1/2 ounce lemon juice
  • 1/2 ounce simple syrup
  • 1 dash bitters, like Fee Brothers Barrel-Aged
  • Cinnamon stick

Directions

  1. 1

    Mash an apple slice in the base of a glass with a muddler. Add ingredients other than the cinnamon; shake and strain into a highball glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with a whole apple slice dusted with freshly grated cinnamon.