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Mulled Cider

Mulled cider is a warm, inviting drink that is mixed with citrus and spices. Take your apple cider game up a notch with this easy recipe. Your house will smell amazing as well!

Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe

Holiday Season: Your house will smell like Christmas, warm and inviting, when you make this drink. It tastes like Christmas too!

Customizable: This recipe allows you to play around with the ingredients. Add lemon, fresh ginger, or nutmeg, add more or less of something. Have fun and make it your own.

Easy to Make: Throw everything into a pot and let it simmer! It’s similar to Wassail and my crock pot apple cider.

Ingredients You Need to Make Mulled Cider

This recipe has a few simple ingredients, but you might have to run to the store for. I don’t always have whole cinnamon sticksallspice berries, and cloves, but they are worth the effort to be able to have the best drink, and your house smell amazing!

Apple Cider: The majority of this beverage is apple cider. You make it special with the other ingredients.

Dark Brown Sugar: Adds a depth of sweetness.

Cinnamon Sticks: My favorite part! These cinnamon sticks add the best flavor and make my house smell amazing!

Whole Cloves: Ok, cloves make my house smell amazing as well, and add that kick of spice.

Allspice Berries: This is the secret ingredient to making your mulled cider better and more unique than anyone else’s.

Orange Peel: The citrus from an orange peel just gives off Christmas vibes.

Instructions

Combine and Simmer: Add the apple cider, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice, and orange peel to a large pot. Bring just barely to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove the spices and orange peel before serving hot.

Hot Mulled Cider Tips and Variations

The great thing about this recipe is how easy it is to play with the ingredients. Use what you have on hand, or change things up to suit your tastes.

Apple Cider or Juice: Use your favorite apple cider! You can use filtered or unfiltered cider, or if you prefer you can even substitute apple juice in for the cider.

Flavor: Simmering the mulled cider over low heat allows the cider to reduce and intensify in flavor!

Additions: Add in the peel of a lemon and ½ cup of fresh cranberries to brighten up the flavor.

Slow Cooker: Combine all the ingredients in the slow cooker and cook on low for 3 hours before serving.

Adult Version: Make it an adult drink by adding in some spiced rum or bourbon to make it spiked cider. You will need about ½ ounce per cup of cider, though that amount can be adjusted to your taste.

How to Properly Store and Reheat Mulled Apple Cider

Storing and Reheating: Mulled cider should have the orange peel and spices removed before storing in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can reheat it on the stovetop over low heat, or you can heat individual mugs in the microwave.

Fresh Garnish: If you plan to garnish your mulled cider with apple slices or orange slices, I recommend using fresh ones rather than the ones that have been simmered in the cider as those become dull and will sink to the bottom of the beverage.

Warm Beverage Recipes to Try

Sitting by a fire, with a hot mug of something sweet to drink while the snow slowly falls outside, is one of the best feelings in the world! Here are a few different recipes for you to try

Hot Toddy

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Easy Homemade Hot Chocolate

8 mins

Easy Crockpot Apple Cider

2 hrs 10 mins

Butter Beer

2 mins

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Mulled Cider

Mulled cider is a warm, inviting drink that is mixed with citrus and spices. Take your apple cider game up a notch with this easy recipe. Your house will smell amazing as well!
Course Beverage
Cuisine American
Keyword Hot Apple Cider, Mulled Apple Cider, Mulled Cider, Spiced Apple Cider
Prep Time 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes minutes
Total Time 35 minutes minutes
Servings 8 servings
Calories 143kcal
Author Alyssa Rivers

Ingredients

2 quarts apple cider¼ cup dark brown sugar5 whole cinnamon sticks4 whole cloves1 tablespoon whole allspice berriespeel of 1 orange

Instructions

Add the apple cider, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, cloves, allspice, and orange peel to a large pot.
Bring just barely to a boil over medium-high heat, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
Remove the spices and orange peel before serving hot.

Nutrition

Calories: 143kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 0.4g | Fat: 0.4g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Sodium: 13mg | Potassium: 268mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 15IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 53mg | Iron: 1mg

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