Skinny Apple Cider Margarita Recipe
Prep Time:
40 minutes
Cook Time:
5 minutes
Servings:
2 Servings
Ingredients
  • 1 cup water
  • ½ cup monk fruit sweetener
  • 2 tablespoons fine salt
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, plus more for dusting
  • Juice from 1 lime wedge
  • 4 ounces Blanco tequila
  • 2 ounces dry brut apple cider
  • 1 ounce cointreau, triple sec, or other orange liqueur
  • 1 ounce fresh lime juice
  • 6 thin apple slices, for garnish
Directions
  1. For the sugar-free syrup combine the water and sweetener in a small saucepan.
  2. Bring to a boil, and stir until dissolved.
  3. Remove the syrup from the heat, let it cool for 30 minutes, and then refrigerate it.
  4. Mix the salt and cinnamon for the rim mixture.
  5. Rub the rim of each glass with a lime wedge.
  6. Dip each glass in the cinnamon-salt mixture.
  7. In a shaker, combine tequila, cider, triple sec, lime juice, and ½ ounce of sugar-free syrup.
  8. Add ice.
  9. Shake vigorously for 15 seconds.
  10. Double strain into glasses.
  11. Lightly dust the apple slices with cinnamon, and garnish the glasses with the apple slices arranged on a cocktail pick.
  12. Serve immediately.