Hot Buttered Cider

Crisp days and nights blanketed in orange and red leaves call for a beverage to keep you warm. Hot Buttered Cider is delicious and comforting. Watching the butter melt as your kitchen fills with the intoxicating scent of apple cinnamon is blissful.

Dip your Halloween sugar cookies in this Hot Buttered Cider, fill your canteen before you go trick-or-treating, or take it with you to Fall festivals!

Elements

Half Gallon All-Natural Apple Cider

1 Stick Salted Butter, Cubed

1/4 C Light Brown Sugar

1-1/2 Tsp Ground Cinnamon

1 Tsp Ground Nutmeg

1/4 Tsp Ground Cloves

Cinnamon Sticks

Green or Red Apple Slices

Directions

1. In a large saucepan, add apple cider and simmer over medium heat.

2. Add butter, light brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg and ground cloves; stir well with a whisk.

3. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer until butter is melted; stirring often.

4. Ladle buttered cider into mugs.

5. Add one cinnamon stick and 2 - 3 apple slices to each mug and serve immediately.

xo, Melissa