Hot Mulled Apple Cider (Slow Cooker)
This Hot Mulled Apple Cider in the slow cooker is a must-have drink during the holidays! Made with cinnamon, orange peel, allspice, star anise, cloves and cardamom, it will warm and fill the soul.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 4 hours
- Total Time: 4 hours 5 minutes
- Yield: 16 servings
- Category: Breakfast, Brunch, Drinks
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 1 gallon Fresh Apple Cider, or unfiltered Apple Juice
- 1 large Orange, sliced into 1/4″ slices
- 1 knob Fresh Ginger, peeled and sliced
- 1 6 oz bag World Market Mulling Spices
- Optional: To individual glasses, you can add some whiskey, rum, brandy or bourbon.
- Optional: Garnish with additional orange slices, apple slices and cranberries
Instructions
- Add: To a slow cooker, add the cider or apple juice. Next, add the ginger and orange slices.
- Spice Sachet: Add 6 tablespoons of the mulling spices to a double layer of cheesecloth or paper coffee filter, gather it up into a sachet, and tie closed with kitchen twine. Add to the slow cooker.
- Cook: Cover and cook until the flavors meld, 4 hours on low.
- Discard: Remove the fruit and spice ball from the slow cooker.
- Garnish: Keep warm and serve in mugs garnished with orange slices, apple slices, and/or a couple of cranberries.
- Optional: To individual glasses, you can add some whiskey, rum, brandy or bourbon.