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Hot Apple Cider for a Cold Hallows’ Eve

Warm up your trick-or-treaters, big or small, with this Halloween hot apple cider recipe you can make ahead of time.

Tomorrow may be Halloween, but it feels and looks more like Christmas outside. I’m hoping it warms up a bit for the trick-or-treaters, but I think it’s best to bundle up.

Halloween has changed for us over the years, from decorating a couple weeks before and always designing and sewing my son’s costumes, to throwing some decorations together on the 31st and leaving my son’s costumes up to him.

I’m not the Halloween scrooge, but since he’s hit high school, it just isn’t a big deal for us any more. However, we do enjoy seeing the little ones dressed up and it’s a good excuse to eat mini chocolate bars.

We also like turning on the fireplace and sipping some sort of hot drink while we take turns going to the door. Occasionally, a family needs to warm up and ends up making a pit stop at our house. This year I want to be prepared, so I’ve decided to make hot apple cider, aka mulled apple cider, with or without alcohol.

Halloween Hot Apple Cider in Glass Mugs

Halloween Hot Apple Cider Recipe

Ingredients

  • 6 cups apple cider
  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  • 5 whole cloves
  • 1 lemon peel, cut into strips
  • 1 orange peel, cut into strips
  • 6 cinnamon sticks
  • 4 ounces rum (optional)

For a printable version, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Directions

  1. Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large saucepan.
  2. Place two cinnamon sticks, all the cloves, orange peel and lemon peel in the center of a rinsed square of cheesecloth. Fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.
  3. Place the saucepan over moderate heat until the cider is very hot, but not boiling (about 10 minutes).
  4. Remove the cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle and ladle the cider into 4 mugs (with or without rum), adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving.

Note: This can be made in a small crockpot and kept warm for guests (double or triple the batch for larger groups). Don’t add the rum until you are ready to serve.

If you’re looking for another Halloween sweet treat, check out my recipe for delicious caramel apples!

Homemade Halloween Caramel Apples with Chocolate Chips, Pumpkin Seeds, Coconut and Nuts

I also have another spiked apple cider fall drink recipe that’s even easier!

Halloween Hot Apple Cider

Halloween Hot Apple Cider Recipe
Warm up your trick-or-treaters, big or small, with this Halloween hot apple cider recipe you can make ahead of time.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Serving Size 4

Ingredients

  • 6 cups apple cider
  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  • 5 whole cloves
  • 1 lemon peel (cut into strips)
  • 1 orange peel (cut into strips)
  • 6 cinnamon sticks
  • 4 ounces rum (optional)

Instructions

  • Pour the apple cider and maple syrup into a large saucepan.
  • Place two cinnamon sticks, all the cloves, orange peel and lemon peel in the center of a rinsed square of cheesecloth. Fold up the sides of the cheesecloth to enclose the bundle, then tie it up with kitchen string. Drop the spice bundle into the cider mixture.
  • Place the saucepan over moderate heat until the cider is very hot, but not boiling (about 10 minutes).
  • Remove the cider from the heat. Discard the spice bundle and ladle the cider into 4 mugs (with or without rum), adding a fresh cinnamon stick to each serving.

Notes

This can be made in a small crockpot and kept warm for guests (double or triple the batch for larger groups). Don’t add the rum until you are ready to serve.

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Have a safe and fun-filled Halloween!

Shauna at Satori Design for Living Blog - Home Decor, DIY, Vintage Finds, Recipes

One Comment

  1. Yum, that sounds fabulous! I’m actually drinking some cider I made tonight and the recipe is pretty similar (though I don’t add the citrus peels, I bet that’s awesome!) And we ran out of rum somehow, so I ended up putting peach brandy in it (why did we have peach brandy and no rum, who knows), but it is still pretty delicious. :-) Thanks so much for sharing the recipe at The Fun In Functional!

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