Fall Margarita

A margarita doesn’t have to retire after summer. Swap in fresh apple cider and a cinnamon-sugar rim and you get a shaker-cold cocktail that tastes like an orchard trip — tart, warming, and dangerously easy to repeat.

Yield: 1 cocktail · Time: 5 min

Ingredients

• 2 oz blanco or reposado tequila
• 1 1/2 oz fresh apple cider
• 3/4 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz orange liqueur or triple sec
• 1/4 oz maple syrup
• Cinnamon sugar and a lime wedge for the rim
• Apple slice and cinnamon stick to garnish

Directions

1. Rub the rim of a rocks glass with the lime wedge and dip it in cinnamon sugar.
2. Shake the tequila, cider, lime juice, orange liqueur, and maple syrup hard with ice for 15 seconds.
3. Strain over fresh ice and garnish with the apple slice and cinnamon stick.

Pro tip: Distilled spirits like tequila are gluten-free, but flavored liqueurs vary — check the label on your orange liqueur if you are highly sensitive.

Gluten-Free Notes

Naturally gluten-free ingredients can still pick up gluten in processing, so choose labeled gluten-free versions of anything packaged here. Our label-reading checker walks through the details if you’re new to this.

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