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Home » Cocktails » Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

Published: Sep 25, 2023 by Genevieve Morrison · This post may contain affiliate links

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A garnished mulled ginger apple cider mimosa on a table in front of apples and a small pumpkin.

These sparkly apple cider mimosas taste like bright, autumn sunshine! Simmer your favorite farmer’s market apple cider, a few cinnamon sticks, fresh ginger, tangerine, and lemon with a tea infuser of mulling spices to create this elegantly seasonal brunch cocktail!

A garnished mulled ginger apple cider mimosa on a table in front of apples and a small pumpkin.
Contents hide
1 Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas
2 Ingredient Notes
3 How to Make These Mimosas – Step-by-Step
4 To Create the Pretty Garnish
5 Recipe Notes
6 A Few More Autumn Cocktails
7 What to Serve with These Mimosas
8 Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

It’s finally Fall! Time for spooky movies, sweaters, and tasty cider cocktails! The magic of these mimosas is obviously in the gingery mulled cider! In just a half hour, you’ll have the most amazing mimosa mixer and your entire house will smell like autumn heaven!

I served these mimosas at my yearly autumn lady’s brunch, garnished with a little candied ginger, and they were so enchanting! I served them alongside creamy pumpkin polenta, a perfectly spiced chai apple French toast, crispy sweet potato hash, a gorgeous butternut squash quiche, and a massaged kale and apple salad! Such a perfect fall brunch menu!

Ingredient Notes

7 ingredients on a table with labels describing what they are.

ginger – Only use fresh ginger for this recipe. Not powdered or dried.

apple cider – Don’t substitute with apple juice.

mulling spices – mulling spices are traditionally made with cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and nutmeg, and less frequently star anise, peppercorn, or cardamom. You can usually find them all together in the spice isle, and don’t need to mix them yourself.

tangerine – Feel free to also use orange, blood orange or mandarin orange.

prosecco – You can also use champagne, of course.

How to Make These Mimosas – Step-by-Step

A collage of 4 numbered images showing how to prepare mulled ginger cider mimosas.

1. Slice 1 lemon, 1 tangerine and 2 oz. ginger into thin slices.

2. Place 1 oz. mulling spices in a tea infuser or make a little sachet using cheesecloth and baker’s string.

3. In a 1-gallon pot, add 1 half-gallon apple cider, sliced fruits and sliced ginger, 4 cinnamon sticks, and mulling spice tea egg. Simmer on low for 30 minutes.

4. Pour cider into a colander over a bowl to strain ingredients. 

2 numbered images showing how to store and pour mulled ginger cider mimosas.

5. Use a funnel to easily pour mulled cider into your container. Refrigerate until cold – about 3 hours.

6. To make mimosas, fill glasses with half-mulled cider and half-prosecco. Garnish and serve.

A garnished mulled ginger apple cider mimosa in the hand of a woman sitting on a chair.

To Create the Pretty Garnish

To make the ginger garnish, I used crystalized ginger and tiny flowers. It’s a little tricky to tuck the flowers into the pin if you haven’t already created a hole, so first pierce the ginger through with a cocktail pin, remove the pin, place the flowers in the little hole, and then slide the cocktail pin back through again.

Fingers holding a ginger-flower garnish above a cocktail.

Recipe Notes

  1. When storing and cooling the mulled cider, I highly suggest adding a cinnamon stick to the bottle while it cools, but for no more than 3 hours, otherwise, it will be a little too cinnamon-forward.
  2. Mulled cider will last for 1 week if refrigerated in a container.
  3. This recipe calls for half-cider, half-prosecco, but if you want your mimosas less sweet, use ⅔ prosecco and ⅓ cider.

A Few More Autumn Cocktails

  • A cocktail garnished with small grapes and sprigs of rosemary.
    The “Autumn Twilight” Grape & Rosemary Cocktail
  • A cocktail on a table garnished with dry flowers with 3 candy corns at its base.
    The Candy Corn Cocktail
  • A White Pumpkin cocktail on a table, garnished with a few flowers beside a small white pumpkin on a table.
    The White Pumpkin Cocktail
  • A cocktail garnished with lemon, flowers and cloves on a table, with lemon slices, flowers and cloves at its base.
    The Tangerine Daisy Cocktail
The ginger flower garnish on the side of a cocktail.

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What to Serve with These Mimosas

  • The top of an apple salad beside 2 apples on a table.
    Massaged Kale Salad with Apple
  • A butternut squash goat cheese quiche on a wooden board, surrounded by flowers.
    Crustless Butternut Squash Quiche
  • A chai apple french toast on a table beside 1 apple.
    Overnight Apple French Toast Casserole
  • Sweet potato hash in a bowl, sprinkled with scallions.
    Crispy, Baked Sweet Potatoes
A garnished mulled ginger apple cider mimosa on a table.

Mulled Apple Cider Mimosas

These sparkly apple cider mimosas taste like bright, autumn sunshine! Simmer your favorite farmer’s market apple cider, a few cinnamon sticks, fresh ginger, tangerine and lemon with a tea infuser of mulling spices to create this elegantly seasonal brunch cocktail!
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Drinks
Cuisine: International
Diet: Vegan
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
cooling time: 3 hours hours
Total Time: 3 hours hours 35 minutes minutes
Servings: 14 cocktails
Calories: 10kcal
Author: Genevieve Morrison

Equipment

  • 1 cutting board & sharp knife
  • 1 gallon pot
  • 1 gallon bowl
  • 1 colander or mesh strainer
  • 1 half-gallon container for mulled cider
  • 1 tea egg – or cheesecloth and baker’s string
  • 1 funnel

Ingredients

  • 1 half-gallon apple cider
  • 2 bottles prosecco
  • ¼ cup sliced ginger – about 2 ounces
  • 1 oz. mulling spices
  • 1 tangerine
  • 1 lemon
  • 4 cinnamon sticks
  • candied ginger – optional for garnish

Instructions

  • Slice 1 lemon, 1 tangerine and 2 oz. ginger into thin slices.
  • Place 1 oz. mulling spices in a tea egg or make a little sachet using cheesecloth and baker’s string.
  • In a 1-gallon pot, add 1 half-gallon apple cider, sliced fruits and sliced ginger, 4 cinnamon sticks, and mulling spice tea egg. Simmer on low for 30 minutes.
  • Pour cider into a colander over a bowl to strain ingredients. Use a funnel to easily pour mulled cider into your container. Refrigerate until cold – about 3 hours.
  • To make mimosas, fill glasses with half-mulled cider and half-prosecco. Garnish and serve.

Notes

When storing and cooling the mulled cider, I highly suggest adding a cinnamon stick to the bottle while it cools.
Mulled cider will last for 2 weeks if refrigerated in a container.
This recipe calls for half-cider, half-prosecco, but if you want your mimosas less sweet, use ⅔ prosecco and ⅓ cider.
To make the ginger garnish, I used crystalized ginger and tiny flowers. I first pierced the ginger through with a cocktail pin, removed the pin, placed the flowers in the little hole, then slid the cocktail pin back through again.
See post for detailed instructions with photos of the process.
 
Nutrition information is an estimate.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cocktail | Calories: 10kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 0.1g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 33mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 47IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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  1. Resa

    November 20, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    I made this cocktail over the weekend, to sip ahead of a tasty autumn lunch – and it turned out great ! I played around with spices and quantities a little, as I always do with recipes ;), but I found the infused cider idea really great as a basis for this cocktail. My lunch guests loved it too! Thank you so much for this and all the other lovely recipes on your blog, that on top of it are always so beautifully presented!

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    • Genevieve Morrison

      November 20, 2023 at 3:15 pm

      Aww, thank you so much Resa! I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe! xox

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