Calvados drinks and cocktails

Recipes and photos from Henrik Mattsson's book "Calvados" - many more recipes in the book.


Sparkling cocktail with calvados
1/10 calvados
9/10 sparkling wine or cider
Use a flute or saucer. Add calvados and top with sparkling wine or cider. You can garnish with a slice of orange and a cherry. A dash of Angostura bitter over a small sugar cube makes it sparkle.

Calvarita - a version of Margarita cocktail with calvados
45 ml (1 1/2 oz) calvados
15 ml (1/2 oz) Cointreau
30 ml (1 oz) lime juice
Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, turn the glass upside down and sprinkle with salt. Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into the glass.

Cosmo calva - a version of cosmopolitan cocktail with calvados
30 ml (1 oz) calvados
15 ml (1/2 oz) Cointreau
15 ml (1/2 oz) cranberry juice
A splash of lime juice
Shake ingredients with ice and serve in a Martini glass with a wedge of lime.

Calva sweet and sour - calvados cocktail sweet and sour
30 ml (1 oz) calvados
30 ml (1 oz) liqueur of apples
30 ml (1 oz) lime juice
Shake calvados, liqueur and lime juice with ice. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Top up with Sprite or 7-Up. Garnish with a lime wedge or apple slice.

Hot apple punch – mulled cider
1 part calvados
3 parts dry cider
Warm the cider and calvados with a stick of cinnamon, 1 clove and season with brown sugar.