How to Make Apple Martinis – 6 Variations

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Last Reviewed:August 28, 2023 by Gabrielle Marks

APPLETINI-The apple martini, or appletini to the fashionable crowd, is oh so metropolitan and falling just shy of slightly pretentious.

The apple martini is a vodka martini with apple flavoring that can include apple schnapps, apple liqueur, apple-flavored vodka, apple juice, or apple cider.  Additional names include sour apple martini, green apple martini, and apple cosmopolitan.

What Is In an Apple Martini?

  • 2 shots (50ml) Sour Apple Liqueur/Schnapps
  • 2 shots (50 ml) of vodka
  • 1 shot (50ml) of apple juice

How to Make an Apple Martini

Fill a chilled cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Add ingredients. Shake for 60 seconds. Strain the liquid into a chilled martini glass.

Fris® Appleberry Martini

  • 2 oz Fris Apple Vodka
  • 1 c. crushed strawberries and raspberries
  • Dash sugar

Frisvodka.com

99 Apples ® Candy Apple Martini

  • 1 oz 99 Apples
  • 2 ½ oz Vodka
  • ½ oz Grenadine

99 Apples Recipes

Bols® Toffee Apple Martini

  • ½ shot Bols®Butterscotch
  • 1 shot Bols® Sour Apple
  • 1 shot Bols® Jonge Jenever

Bolscocktails.com

Grey Goose® Apple Crisp Martini

  • 2 parts Grey Goose® L’Orange Flavored Vodka
  • ¼ small apple diced
  • ½ part simple syrup
  • ½ part Tuaca® Liqueur
  • ¾ parts fresh lemon juice
  • 1 lemon wedge and 1 tbsp. cinnamon sugar to line the rim of the glass.

Greygoose.com

Skyy® Appletini

  • 2 oz Skyy Vodka
  • 1 oz sour apple liqueur
  • Splash lemon/lime soda

Skyy.com

Calories in an Apple Martini

Serving Size: 3-4 oz

Calories: 160

Fat: 0

Carbs: 11 g

Favorite Apple Martini Liqueurs

Apple martinis can be flavored with apple liqueur, apple schnapps, apple-flavored vodka, and apple juice. Here are a few of the most popular brands.

DeKuyper® Pucker® Sour Apple Schnapps: This liqueur puts the sour apple in the world-famous sour.

DeKuyperusa.com

Granny’s Sour Apple Schnapps: “Granny’s Sour Apple Schnapps (34 proof) is bursting with a tangy apple flavor that is intense to the core. The tantalizing flavor makes a perfect shooter and a great-tasting apple martini.”

Whiterockdistilleries.com

Sourz® Apple Liqueur: “Vibrant green in colour Sourz Apple is sure to catch your attention. The sweet apple flavor is balanced by the zingy sour finish. A clean and crisp serve.”

Sourz.com

99 Apples: “The only 99 proof apple-flavored schnapps. Intense tangy apple taste that makes Apple Martinis exceptional — it’s apple to the core. With a taste intensity that stands up to vodka and mixers and distinctive packaging that conveys the premium quality and breezy, colorful, irreverent attitude of our 99 proof schnapps.”

Bartonbrands.com