Written by William Morse special to The Pensacola News Journal

With the holiday season upon us, I thought it only fitting to write about a cocktail that goes with the season. Everyone has a favorite food or drink that they associate with different holidays or times of the year. Of course most of us relate hearty turkey, poultry or duck meals with Thanksgiving and Christmas, but there are other dishes, although not main courses, that are nonetheless just as relevant to these holidays. Foods such as cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy-covered mashed potatoes — and for me, warm apple pie.

Let me introduce you to the spiced apple pie martini. It’s pretty much known that the “flavored martini craze” began with drinks such as the cosmopolitan and more so with the apple martini. However, don’t mistake the spiced apple pie martini as just another cocktail with an apple flavor. This drink tastes remarkably like a liquid version of the apple pie dessert just after a Christmas dinner.

Travis Hasse’s Apple Pie Liqueur, an apple- and cinnamon-flavored spirit, along with Three Olives Vanilla Vodka and the Italian vanilla- and citrus-infused liqueur Tuaca are the main ingredients that blend so well together that the ultimate result is a piece of spiced apple pie in a glass.

To make this drink, combine the following in a martini shaker:

3/4 ounce Travis Hasse’s Apple Pie Liqueur

½ ounce Three Olives Vanilla Vodka

½ ounce Tuaca

2 ounces organic pear nectar

Shake vigorously and strain into a graham-cracker-rimmed martini glass

Lightly sprinkle cinnamon on top to taste.

You can go through the time and effort to make your own apple pie, or you can come down to The Fish House and have one of our bartenders make you a spiced apple pie martini. Enjoy!

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