Name: Apple Cart
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack; 30 ml Triple sec; 20 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 10 ml Apple Schnapps liqueur (optional); 10 ml Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Optional sugar rim with apple wedge on rim or float dehydrated apple slice

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
2/3 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Apple Schnapps liqueur (optional)
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if using wet ice)
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AKA:

Calvados Sidecar

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Review:

A splash of apple liqueur helps balance this otherwise overly sour calvados-based Sidecar.

Variant:

Deauville

History:

When a Sidecar is made with calvados instead of cognac it becomes an Apple Cart.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
20.46% alc./vol. (40.92° proof)
23.5 grams of pure alcohol

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