Fall cocktails from 3 Orlando restaurants get you into the spirit of the season

Fall is officially here and nothing accompanies colorful foliage and a cool autumn breeze than a diverse list of fall seasonal cocktails from some of Orlando's top restaurants.

Try a few of these festive takes on three traditional cocktails.

Gone Apple Picking Gin & Tonic
Jaleo by José Andrés – Orlando, FL

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Hendricks gin
• .5 oz La Gitana Manzanilla sherry
• .25 oz Valdespino El Candado Pedro Ximenez sherry
• 4.5 oz Fever Tree Indian tonic water
• Garnish 2 Granny Smith apple slices
• 1 star anise (full pod)

Smoked Maple Old Fashioned
Enzo’s Hideaway, Disney Springs – Orlando, FL

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Smoked Maple Knob Creek bourbon
• .25 oz of cinnamon pear syrup
• 4 dashes chocolate bitters
• Orange-peel garnish
• Cinnamon stick

Directions:

• Pour 2 oz of Smoked Maple Knob Creek into mixing glass with .25 oz of cinnamon pear syrup with ice
• Add 4 dashes of chocolate bitters
• Stir all ingredients with stirring spoon
• Burn tip of cinnamon stick with lighter, take rocks glass and put over burning cinnamon stick to give the glass a smokey flavor
• Single strain cocktail into rocks glass with one big ice cube
• Garnish with one orange peel twist and a cinnamon stick

Pumpkin White Russian
Maria & Enzo’s, Disney Springs – Orlando, FL

Ingredients:

• 2 oz organic pumpkin spice vodka
• .5 oz of cinnamon simple syrup
• 1.5 oz of Borghetti espresso liquor
• Splash of milk
• Whipped cream
• Graham cracker

Directions:

• Add pumpkin spice rim to a rocks glass
• Pour 2 oz of organic pumpkin spice vodka into the rocks glass
• Add 1.5 oz of Borghetti espresso liquor into the glass
• Add .5 oz of cinnamon simple syrup
• Add a splash of milk
• Stir in glass and then add ice
• Top with whipped cream and graham cracker

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