Caramel Apple Sangria is a light, refreshing, delicious, and EASY Apple Pie Sangria! This Fall Sangria Recipe is the hit of every party I take it to! This Sangria is loaded with Apple Cider, Caramel Vodka, White Wine, Ginger Ale, and more! We call this Thanksgiving Sangria because it’s Autumn in a glass. We have sangria recipes for every occasion, but this one is our favorite.
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Caramel Apple Sangria Recipe
Caramel Apple Sangria is the perfect fall Sangria recipe to serve on Thanksgiving or any chilly autumn night!
Caramel Apple Sangria was one of the first truly popular drink recipes on The Cookie Rookie. Even with the outdated pictures, each Fall Apple Pie Sangria has set the standard on the site.
I’ve updated the pictures but kept some of the old ones because Scout was just way too cute. This Thanksgiving Sangria Recipe post made me want to make this site into a business, and I hope you love it as much as we have!
Autumn is on its way, and I’m officially in love with this favorite drink, Apple Pie Sangria. It is….amazing. It tastes like leaves turning colors and Christmas on its way! (I know I’m very dramatic) but this drink really is SO good.
It’s simple, has only a few ingredients, and was a big hit. It even had beer drinking men asking for more. If you want to win those holiday parties, this Caramel Apple Sangria is for you!
Caramel Apple Sangria is the perfect fall sangria recipe! Make this sangria for Thanksgiving or any chilly autumn night.
What ingredients are in Caramel Apple Sangria?
We have made so many favorite cocktails on The Cookie Rookie throughout the years, but I always seem to go back to Apple Pie Sangria. This year I’ve switched out a couple ingredients, swapping the club soda for ginger ale and deciding to stick to my original favorite Caramel Vodka.
The flavors mix together as the day goes on, and it just gets tastier and tastier. It really is the ultimate party drink. As you can see below, I’ve tried to match it over and over again. I love all of my cocktail recipes, but SHHHHH this is my favorite and probably always will be.
Before I started the blog and hadn’t made any homemade cocktails for myself (let alone actual recipes), sangria seemed like a complicated idea to me. Something I would only order in restaurants. WHY?! It’s so easy. Juice, vodka, wine. Repeat. It’s that simple.
Tips!
- When I make this Apple Pie Sangria I usually let it sit in the fridge for about 2-3 hours and then added two cinnamon sticks about 1 hour before serving. Since the cider already has a kick of cinnamon, you don’t need the sticks to add too much spice.
- You can also save the Ginger Ale until right before serving if you want the bubbly effect. I used it more to cut the sweetness, but it adds a nice sizzle!
- Be sure to stir stir stir to allow all the flavors to blend together fully.
This Thanksgiving Sangria is gone in minutes at every holiday party I take it to. It’s one of our very favorite Holiday Recipes! People always ask for the ingredients, because it’s such a unique and delicious sangria.
Luckily, it’s easy too! I hope Apple Pie Sangria graces your Thanksgiving table this year! There’s no better Fall Sangria Recipe out there…I guarantee it!
Apple Pie Sangria for Fall
We love making drinks on The Cookie Rookie and this Caramel Apple Sangria is one of our very favorite recipes. A Fall Sangria Recipe has never looked so good!
Be sure to see the recipe card below for full ingredients & instructions!
More Sangria Recipes
After you make this Caramel Apple Sangria, be sure to make our other favorite sangria recipes as well!
Caramel Apple Sangria | Apple Pie Sangria
Ingredients
- 2 bottles standard size white table wine or pinot grigio
- 5 cups fresh apple cider
- 1 cup caramel vodka (or make your own Apple Pie Vodka!)
- 4 honey crisp apples chopped
- 2 pears chopped
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 cup ginger ale
Instructions
- Cut the fruit and place in the bottom of your pitcher or jug
- Combine all of the ingredients except the cinnamon sticks
- Stir, stir, stir
- Let sit for 1-2 hours in the fridge
- About 1 hour before serving, throw in the cinnamon sticks
- Stir, stir, stir :)
- Add in the ginger ale and stir before serving.
- Serve over ice
- Enjoy!
Last step! Don’t forget to show me a pic of what you made! Upload an image or tag me @thecookierookie on Instagram!
Nutrition Information
I love this recipe and want to make it as one of my signature cocktails for my wedding this fall! How much should I double this recipe to serve at least 80 people (this is the guesstimate of how many people out of 150 will drink it) thanks!!
Well this recipe makes 112 ounces…at 6 oz per glass that’s around 18 glasses. So 3 glasses per person winds up being 6 people per batch. That means you’ll need to plane for 13 batches. Certainly you don’t need the extra fruit.
2. 5 liter boxes of pinot grit
4 gallons of apple cider
4 750ml bottles of caramel vodka
4. 2 liter bottles of ginger ale
Add apples, pears and cinnamon as you like
This was easy and delicious! I LOVE fruit but the proportion of fruit to drink was way too much, or maybe my apples were huge.
Make it to your liking!
Love the container you have posted, where is it from? Probably won’t still have it but might have one similar. Thanks. Trying recipe today.
It’s been so long since I purchased it, I don’t remember!
Made this for my holiday party and it came out amazing. I made a small batch as directed the day before to try it out and ending up changing the amounts a little for the party as the wine was very overpowering and I wanted more apple and caramel to come through. I mixed 2 bottles of Pinot Grigio, two cups salted caramel vodka (only caramel vodka I could find), 5-6 cups Simply Apple juice (hard to find cider in my area and another review said it worked), about 4 Granny Smith apples cut up, with 6 cinnamon sticks. Let sit for about 6 hours and right before serving added 5-6 cups ginger ale and 2 cups cranberries. The entire thing was gone before the end of the night. Will definitely make again and hope to try with real ginger beer.
YUM!! I’m going to have to try it with your changes and see how it turns out!
This was a huge hit when I hosted Thanksgiving! Everyone loved it. So easy & very delicious!
I’m so glad to hear you all enjoyed it!!
I can’t wait to try this, but I suggest you could improve this sangria in only one way. Use a REAL ginger ale instead of a cocktail mixer. Definitely Vernors or at the very least a ginger beer.
Thank you for the idea!
Plan to have this recipe for Book Club. Can it be made overnight or is that too long for the fruit to soak?
Is the apple cider alcoholic or plain apple cider you can buy in the store?
I just went ahead and bought plain apple cider at the store! :)
I am going to try and make this sangria next week for an open house. I went to the liquor store today and when I asked for “caramel vodka” they sold me Lovoka Caramel Liqueur. I didn’t even realize it was not a regular flavored vodka until I got home, opened it and tried it. I am assuming this will not work in the sangria (?)
Can you use prosseco instead of Pinot? For extra bubbles? Thanks :)