The Widow’s Wink Cocktail Recipe: A Zingy Applejack Cocktail

This is a somewhat less decadent version of a Widow’s Kiss. We’re only using one heavy, syrupy, herbal liqueur instead of two, and we’ve traded out expensive calvados for cost-saving (but still delicious!) Applejack. A little raspberry syrup adds some zing.

OK … this is so far from a Widow’s Kiss that it’s really pretty much its own drink. But that’s all right, because it’s still delicious. You can find raspberry syrup in most decent-sized grocery stores, and of course there’s a billion places to get it online.

This article is a modified and enhanced version of a post that ran on my nightly cocktail blog, DrinkShouts.

The Widow's Wink Cocktail Recipe

A delicious Applejack cocktail

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Total Time 5 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Servings 1 Drink

Equipment

• Pint Glass
• Bar spoon
• Cocktail Strainer
• Chilled cocktail glass

Ingredients

  

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• 2 oz. Applejack Laird’s
• 1 oz. Sweet vermouth Noilly Prat
• .75 oz. Benedictine
• .25 oz. Raspberry syrup
• Dash orange bitters Fee Brothers
• Luxardo maraschino cherry Garnish

Instructions

 

• Combine all ingredients in a pint glass over ice and stir thoroughly. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a Luxardo maraschino cherry

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