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Apple Mulled Wine
Learn how to make German apple mulled wine with mulled wine spices at home. This spiced wine is quick and easy to make and the perfect drink for holiday parties and the holiday season
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 210 kcal
Ingredients
- 400 ml white wine 1 2/3 cups
- 250 ml apple juice 1 1/4 cups
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 star anise
- 1-2 whole cloves
- zest from 1/2 unwaxed orange cut into wide strips. Be careful not to cut off too much of the white flesh
- 2 tablespoons grade A maple syrup or brown sugar or honey
- 1/2 vanilla bean + scraped out seeds + the pod or 1 use tablespoon vanilla paste
Instructions
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Slice the vanilla bean open and scratch the vanilla seeds out of the vanilla pod. In a pot heat the white wine, apple juice, cinnamon sticks, cloves, star anise and orange zest as well as the vanilla bean paste and the craped out bean pod in a saucepan and heat until the wine is almost boiling.
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Reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 - 15 minutes. Don't let it boil.
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Remove from the heat and stir in the maple syrup. Pour into two heatproof glasses (all solid ingredients remain in the pot).
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Serve with apple or orange slices, some cubes of brown sugar, should someone want to add more sweetness, and a cinnamon stick for stirring.