italian dessert recipes

Cafe Amaretto

A manly after dinner drink




cafe amaretto
This cafe amaretto is similar to an after dinner amaretto coffee. To me, it parts ways and becomes a more manly after dinner drink. It has an added ingredient, cognac.

Now, the men in our family do drink the amaretto coffee - but this recipe makes it less of a frou-frou frilly drink. This version is just in case you know an insecure man who is afraid to drink the standard amaretto coffee recipe because he just can't seem to get in touch with the sweet side of his taste buds.

Cognac is not that big of a deal. You could most likely add any brandy.

I got myself a little bit of "edumacation at that them thar likker store yestarday." I asked some young kid that worked there, "What exactly is cognac?" "Cognac" just means it was a brandy distilled in a particular region - which in this case, happens to be - Cognac, France.

And yep, he was right. I went I checked out his tid bit of info later when I got home. (Because I never believe an answer if it comes from someone as young as my children!) So "ding ding" score a point for the younger kids!

If this isn't the type of amaretto drink you were looking for, scroll below and check out the recipe list Italian drinks I have on my site. While you are at it - check out my homepage of Italian dessert recipes.

Thanks for stopping by!

Lisa




Cafe Amaretto

YIELD: 1 Serving

Ingredients:

 * 1 oz amaretto

* 4-6 ozs of coffee

* 1/2 oz of cognac (or brandy)

* 1 oz cream



Procedure

 * Mix it all together.






What is amaretto?

An Italian liqueur. The noticeable taste is sweet almonds but really has a ton more ingredients to it. Almonds is the predominant flavor.
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Lisa Gianotti Superbowl Sunday is coming up! The best Italian Dessert Recipes for a party like this are ones that are:

FAST

Finger Foodish (not big hunky sticky globs of gooey-ness that get on your furniture)

And freeze-aheads

A couple of my favs for this are Cappucino Cookies (lots like choc chips but with a twist)

Anisette Cookies (Always on the top 5)

Rum Balls (Gingersnaps and Rum)

Let's not for get the drinks to go with the beer that will be present! Check out my Italian drinks section for that.

Lisa


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