Apple Pie Martini – Friday’s Featured Cocktail

This is the perfect patriotic cocktail for the Fourth of July. It’s as American as apple pie and delicious too! Don’t just go for a gimmicky drink because it’s red, white and blue, serve up something that taste great and at the same time captures the soul of America on her birthday.

Apple Pie Martini

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 oz. vodka,
• 1/2 oz. cinnamon schnapps
• 2 oz. pressed apple juice
• 1 oz. cranberry juice
• ice
• graham crackers

Directions

Shake all the ingredients over ice and then strain into a chilled martini glass rimmed with finely crushed graham crackers. Garnish with an apple slice.

Make an “American Mix” with these great tunes to enjoy with your cocktails:

Born in the USA – Bruce Springsteen

American Girl – Tom Petty

All American Man – Kiss

R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. -  John Mellencamp

All American Girl – Carrie Underwood

American Baby – Dave Mathews

God Bless the U.S.A. – Lee Greenwood

Surfin USA – The Beach Boys

Back in the U.S.A. – Chuck Berry

American Pie – Don McLean

America – Simon & Garfunkel

Living in the U.S.A. – Steve Miller Band

We?re an American Band – Grand Funk Railroad

American Land – Bruce Springsteen

Bon Jovi – Miss Fourth of July

American Made – George Thorogood

Freedom – The Isley Brothers

America the Beautiful – Ray Charles