italian dessert recipes

Wedding Cake Martini

"Amaretto, vodka, and oranges"




wedding cake martini
The wedding cake martini tastes like a liquid wedding cake. Well, a good wedding cake - not a cheap pasty grainy fake type bakery cake. Amaretto is the main flavoring. And if you top this off with cream you really get that cake-in-a-cup flavor. The vodka perfects this! It adds that extra zing! (Personally, I could use a tad more vodka than what I put in the recipe.)


This is a VERY sweet martini. I can't drink it before dinner. It's more of an after dinner martini in my book.

A few creative ideas for some substitutions are in the section below. Plus a few tips.






Wedding Cake Martini

YIELD: 1 Serving

Ingredients:

* 3 ounces amaretto

* 1/2 ounce vodka

* 1 ounce fresh squeezed orange juice

Procedure

* Uh, shake, shake, shake, and then serve!

* OPTIONAL: Float a little cream on top if you wish! (I prefer this - really tastes like a cake)





Other ideas for the orange juice?

The original recipe I saw for this calls for pineapple juice. And I've seen one variation use Malibu Rum. I'm one for not going out to the store for one or two things. So - I had oranges and I squeezed them. I had Malibu also, but I wanted ONE thing non-alcholic in the drink.

TIP: To strain the orange pulp - I pour the orange juice through a coffee filter.

Wondering what amaretto is?

It's a liqueur made from a base of apricot or almond pits, or sometimes both. It tastes like real sweet almonds.

Want a cream float on top?

I've seen variations of this where you can put a tablespoon of cream to float on top. DO this AFTER you have shaken and poured.

Too sweet?

Pull back the amaretto. OR, if you're like me - add a tad more vodka, just to get that nice little burn.


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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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