The Pioneer Woman’s Mulled Apple Cider Recipe
A delicious hot drink for the holidays: The Pioneer Woman’s Mulled Apple Cider Recipe. Perfect for the fall, holidays, or a cozy treat on a cold day.
I always love it when I’m done with Christmas shopping, and I get to sit down and enjoy a cup of mulled apple cider. This The Pioneer Woman’s Mulled Apple Cider Recipe is amazing, and it’s so yummy to serve to company!
Mulled Apple Cider Recipe
If you haven’t watched Ree’s cooking show on Food Network, or visited her blog, The Pioneer Woman, then you are missing out. (And a few years ago, that’s me in the white blouse riding Ree’s horse (LB) at her ranch. Check out the Chocka Mocka Locka Wocka post.)
Packed with everything delicious, Ree’s holiday cookbook covers 12 holidays!
You can buy your copy, by clicking here [AFFLINK] >> The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-by-Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations.
I’m a picture-gal–I love pictures that tell a story, the whole story, and Ree’s photography is perfect for making me smile, especially when I see Charlie always posing for the camera!
Here’s a little excerpt from Ree, summing up what the book is about. Quite honestly, it’s more than a holiday book, because most recipes could be made almost any day of the week.
There’s nothing more delicious than a holiday.
Oh, is it ever true. Whether it’s the anticipation of Christmastime or the ghoulish glee of Halloween, if I see a holiday on the horizon, I simply can’t contain my excitement. There’s just something about the traditions, the family togetherness, the resurfacing of childhood memories . . . the making of new ones. Holidays are wonderful, special, and fun . . . and they always make me happy.
And one more thing: They make me want to cook! –Ree
Bringing people together
Who doesn’t get excited for the holidays and cooking?! Bringing people together in a cozy home, and making them happy with a home-cooked meal is my favorite!
The Pioneer Woman’s Mulled Apple Cider Recipe
Starting the holidays off this week, I decided to make Ree’s Mulled Apple Cider recipe, which we’ve all been enjoying!
Have I told you how delicious my house smells? Sometimes I think it’s worth making hot cider with mulled spices, just to get the house smelling GOOD.
I even pulled out the bourbon, and thought I’d take Ree up on her idea of spiking the cider! We adapted the recipe slightly, but oh, so good!
How do you make Hot Mulled Apple Cider?
- Pour the apple cider into a large pot over medium-high heat.
- Dice up the apples and toss them into the cider.
- Place orange slices in pot.
- Also add the allspice berries, the cinnamon sticks, and the cranberries.
- Pour in the sugar and stir it around to dissolve.
- Bring the mixture to a low boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Add the brandy if using, then simmer for another 10-15 minutes. Serve warm.
Warm, mulled apple cider makes life worth living on freezing cold winter days. Warm apple cider spiked with brandy? Ditto. Times a thousand. Mmmmmmm.
Serve this in a nice mug with a piece of rum cake, then curl up by the fire, wrapped in a fuzzy blanket, and work on your Christmas list.
And that’s an order! – Ree
Just in time for the holidays!
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The Pioneer Woman’s Mulled Apple Cider
Ingredients
- 1 gallon apple cider
- 3 Granny Smith apples
- 1 orange
- 1 T. allspice berries
- 5-7 cinnamon sticks
- 1/2 cup fresh cranberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup apple brandy or regular brandy, optional
Instructions
- Pour the apple cider into a large pot over medium-high heat.
- Dice up the apples and toss them into the cider.
- Peel the rind off the orange in large pieces and toss them in.
- Add the allspice berries, the cinnamon sticks, and the cranberries.
- Add the sugar and stir it around to dissolve.
- Bring the mixture to a low boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Add the brandy if using, then simmer for another 10-15 minutes. Serve warm.
Notes
Amanda from i am baker gathered a few of us together to host a mini round-up of other fabulous recipe.
Bev Cooks made Chipotle Chicken Chili
Recipe Girl made Pecan Pie
She Wears Many Hats made Perfect Cream Scones
Two Peas and Their Pod made Dulce De Leche Brownies
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I love Christmas – we always have monster cookies!!
My favorite Holiday is Christmas. I host a Christmas Brunch for my husband’s side of the family, where my signature dishes are Quiche, Breakfast Casserole Bake, and Blintz Cake!
For dinner, it’s off to my sister’s for dinner with my family and I am not allowed over if I don’t brink chocolate chip coconut “macaroons” !!
Runner up is St. Patrick’s Day– mustard glazed Corned Beef—YUM!
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My favorite holiday is Christmas, and my favorite holiday recipe is my family’s cranberries. I use an old metal food mill to process the apples, oranges and cranberries…makes me feel like a pioneer woman back in the day!!
My favorite holiday is Christmas. My signature recipe would be my broccoli and cauliflower rice cheese bake. Thanks for the give away!
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I subscribe via email and like you on Facebook. Thanks for all the great enouragement and delicious recipes! I am making your raspberry butter cake this weekend! Yum!
Beautiful cider pictures! Hmmm, I guess probably Christmas, and my late Grandma’s cranberry bread. Thumbprint cookies are also great, but never last very long!
My favorite holiday is Christmas and my signature recipe is White Christmas Chili from an old Southern Living Christmas cookbook my Mom had when I was growing up. We make a big pot of it Christmas morning and come back to it all day long as we open gifts and share stories.
I love Thanksgiving and my favorite dish is Martha Stewart’s Cornbread Sausage stuffing. It is not Thanksgiving without it.
favorite holiday is thanksgiving, do not have a signature dish
My favorite holiday is Christmas! I make Oreo Truffles every year and pass them out to family, friends and neighbors :-)
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Christmas is my favorite holiday, and my signature holiday recipe is my grandma’s date nut roll.
Oh I love all the holidays!! I have always loved Halloween because my birthday is the day after and the celebration always started on Halloween with all of my family coming over to kick off the festivities! I love to make apple dumplings! Those are still my birthday cake choice! :)
Christmas is definitely my favorite – I love to bake Christmas cookies, I think Italian Rum Balls are my favorite!
Christmas is definitely my favorite and I start every season by making a batch of fudge with my mom’s recipe!
I like Christmas with plum pudding and custard.
I love Christmas. I’m not sure I have a fancy signature dish, but we do have things that always appear on our table. My mom’s dressing, orange cake, and pecan pie.
Love the food of Thanksgiving and time with my kids
I love me some Thanksgiving. Every year, before the holiday, I make a TON of apple butter. Its so fun to give it out to folks before the holidays and hear the stories from the “olden days”…someone always has a story about getting apple butter as a gift or making it as a community, etc.
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