Apple sparkling wine aperitif

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• 130 ml water
• 2 tbsp applesauce without pieces
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• possibly sugar, brown sugar for decoration
• 6 cl liqueur (apple cinnamon liqueur)
• 200 ml sparkling wine
• e.g. crushed ice

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Rest time approx. 45 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 5 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

autumnal, wintery, with cinnamon

Chill the sparkling wine. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan. Stir in the applesauce and dissolve the sugar. Simmer until it thickens (about the consistency of fruit nectar). Let it cool. If you like, you can add a sugar rim to the champagne glasses while it cools. To do this, dip the glass upside down into the applesauce liquid (only as deep as you want the sugar rim to be) and then dip it in brown sugar. Let it dry upside down on a chopping board. Then pour 3 cl of apple cinnamon liqueur into each glass. Then divide the applesauce liquid between both glasses. It should be about twice as much as the liqueur. Fill the glasses with sparkling wine and, if desired, with crushed ice. For this recipe, I used the following apple cinnamon liqueur: https://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/2067931334267827/Apfel-Zimt-Likoer.html