Apple Blossoms cocktail

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Enjoy apple season with this cacacha and calvados cocktail.

Ingredients

·         1 ounce cachaca

·         ¾ ounce calvados (I used Boulard Calvados Pays d' Auge V.S.O.P.)

·         ¾ ounce black cardamom syrup*

·         ½ ounce lemon juice

·         Thin slice of apple with cardamom dust for garnish

·         Shake, strain, nick & nora, garnish

Directions

1.   Add all ingredients except for garnish to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice.

2.   Shake and double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

3.   Garnish with a thin slice of apple that has been dusted with cardamom powder.

4.   *To make black cardamom syrup:

     Combine 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan with 4 cracked black cardamom pods. Turn heat to medium and bring to boil, stirring as needed. Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, let cool and strain. Store in a glass bottle in the fridge until ready to use.