Drink · 3 min · 1 rocks glass
Toasted almond
Amaretto, coffee liqueur and cream. Sweet, and unapologetic about it — a dessert that happens to be a drink.
The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 3 min
easyWhy tonight. Amaretto, coffee liqueur and cream. Sweet, and unapologetic about it — a dessert that happens to be a drink.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- amaretto
- coffee liqueur
- cream
Method
- 1 oz amaretto, 1 oz coffee liqueur, 1 oz cream. Shake very hard with ice — cream needs more work than a sour does.
- Strain over fresh ice rather than the ice you shook with, which is already half water.
- Cream, not milk. Milk goes thin and grey against coffee liqueur.
- Grate nutmeg over the top. It is a pudding and it belongs after one.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- amaretto
- Almond-scented and very sweet, so it functions as the sugar in a drink rather than as an addition to it.
- coffee liqueur
- Sweet, roasted and thick, so it brings body as well as flavor.
- cream
- Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
If you bought for this, you can already make these
Shares coffee liqueur, amaretto, cream
B-52
Coffee liqueur, amaretto and cream layered by density. Pour each over the back of a spoon and it stacks in three visible bands.
Shares coffee liqueur, cream
White Russian
Vodka and coffee liqueur with cream floated on top. Do not stir it in the glass; the layers are how it is supposed to arrive.
Shares coffee liqueur
Black Russian
The same without cream, which makes it a much drier drink and a far better one after dinner.
Shares amaretto
Godfather
Scotch and amaretto, and nothing else. Two ingredients, poured over one big cube, and it is a whole after-dinner drink.
Next
Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.
The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.