Apple Butter Old Fashioned Cocktail with Tbsp Coarse Sugar

Serves 1 in about 5 minutes. The stove brings bourbon and shakes angostura bitters together.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp apple butter
• 2 oz bourbon (we like buffalo trace)
• ¼ cup apple cider
• 2 shakes angostura bitters
• Ice
• 2 tbsp coarse sugar (or sugar/brown sugar mix)

Method

1. Sugar the rim of the glass by holding the glass upside down and dipping the glass in apple cider about 1/2 inch. Then dip in coarse sugar, or a sugar/brown sugar mix. keep it nearby.
2. Stir in all ingredients to a cocktail shaker.
3. Tip in ice and shake for 20-30 seconds.
4. Tip in over large ice cubes in an old fashioned glass.
5. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and thinly sliced apple.

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