Top 10 Amaretto Liqueur Drinks with Recipes

What is Amaretto

Amaretto is an almond-flavored liqueur from Italy that is one of the most popular ingredients of modern-day cocktails. Some brands, however, make it from a base of apricot pits, or both apricots and almond. This gluten-free liqueur tastes a bit sweet with an alcohol content (percentage) of 24 to 28 and is 48 to 56 proof, and hence, is often consumed neat or straight up. A 1-oz serving of amaretto has 110 calories of energy with a total of 17 g of carbs.

Here are a few of the best drink ideas (including the drink names and the ingredients) for the drinks involving amaretto. Find the long list here!

How to Make Cocktail Drinks with Amaretto (with Ingredients)

1. Authentic ‘Amaretto Sour’ Recipe (‘Stone Sour’ Cocktail)

Use your shaker to mix 1½ parts of amaretto (any of the top brands of amaretto including ‘Amaretto Di Amore’, ‘Galliano’, ‘Pinnacle’, etc.), with 1 part lemon juice and ⅔ part sweet and sour syrup. Transfer into chilled glasses. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino berry.

2. Homemade Classic ‘Godfather’ Amaretto Cocktail Recipe

Mix 1¼ oz of each of Scotch whiskey and amaretto (you can choose from ‘Amaretto Venice’, ‘Gozio Amaretto’, ‘Ciroc Black & Gold’) over ice in old-fashioned drinking glasses. Stir gently and serve.

3. Simple Amaretto Almond Martini Quick Drinks

Shake ¼ oz of each of amaretto (say Luxardo, or ‘Disaronno’ AKA ‘Dan Murphy’s Amaretto’), vermouth, gin, Frangelico, and Swiss chocolate almond liqueur (all chilled). Strain into pre-frozen martini glasses. Serve chilled.

4. ‘Almond Joy’ After-Dinner Freeze Shake Amaretto Mixed Drinks

This extra-chilled milky drink can be served as a dessert (especially in the summer, or after a Thanksgiving dinner). In a cocktail shaker, pour 1 oz of each of amaretto, crème de cacao, and cream of coconut (or banana liqueur for a different taste), along with 2 oz whipped cream and 2 cups of ice cubes. Shake vigorously and transfer the mix into chilled drinking glasses. Spread broken almonds from the top.
[For a similar shot drink, ‘Alexander Amaretto Shooter’ mix 1 shot of each of the ingredients above, except crème de cacao.]

5. Easy General-Party Mixed Alcoholic Amaretto Punch

In lowball glasses, mix ½ oz of brandy (or Jagermeister), bourbon or Jack Daniel’s Tennessee whiskey, and amaretto, each, with 5 oz of ginger ale (or any fizzy soft drink or energy drink like lemonade, Coke, Red Bull, Dr Pepper, etc.) over ice cubes. Tastes yummy with lemon slices.

6. Flavored Girly Holiday ‘Breeze’ Drink Recipe Using Amaretto

In your mixer, combine 1 quart of vanilla ice cream with ¼ cup of each of cognac brandy and amaretto along with 2 cups of crushed ice, until a little slushy. Transfer the mix in short stylish glasses. Mix a drop of rose essence along with a dash of grenadine. Decorate with a scoop of ice cream scoop, chocolate sauce and a cherry for a girly getup. Serve your girls instantly.

7. Amaretto Sour Bomb Shots Fruity Holiday-Party Drinks

For this healthy recipe, we recommend cranberry/raspberry/cherry juice for a ‘red’ Xmas or a ‘bloody’ Halloween look.
Arrange cocktail glasses and pour ¼ oz Smirnoff vodka in each of the glasses over a handful of ice cubes. Then, fill half the glass with cranberry, raspberry, or cherry juice, and pour sour mix (according to taste) from the top. Carefully stand a shot glass filled with 1 oz of amaretto in each. Serve chilled.

Variation 1: If you are serving a fruity drink in a fall party, you can also opt for the ‘sunrise’ look with pineapple, orange, peach or apple juice, or a combination. In that case, add 1 tbsp grenadine to settle at the bottom. Do not stir. Then carefully stand the shot glass.

Variation 2: With a little alteration (by omitting the shot glass part), you can also make the Amaretto Fruity ‘Kiss’ Long Drink using the same ingredients. For that, shake 2 parts of cranberry juice with 1 part of vodka, ½ cup amaretto, and 3 tbsp orange juice, and serve with ice and peeled clementine.

8. Green Manly Gay Party Sweet-n-Sour Cocktails with Amaretto

Mix over ice 1½ oz of Midori, 1 oz of sweet and sour mix, and ½ oz of each of chilled green tea, tequila, and fresh lime juice. Next, pour any colorless soft drink (like club soda, sprite or 7up) over the mix carefully. Do not stir. Float ice cubes from the top and decorate with a wedge of lemon and mint sprig.

9. Alcohol Blended Hot Breakfast Coffee Drinks with Amaretto Liqueur

Arrange coffee mugs and fill each one with ¼ oz of each of amaretto liqueur, crème de cacao (or Baileys Irish Cream), Kahlua (or Sambuca) and hot milk. Stir lightly. Now fill the rest with pre-made espresso hot coffee. Top with whipped cream and grated almond. Sip hot or warm, as you wish.
[You can also replace the espresso hot coffee with hot chocolate.]

10. Salty-Sour ‘Soco Amaretto’ Lime Margarita Drink

First, rim a cocktail glass with sea salt and lemon juice. Now, shake well 1 oz Southern Comfort peach liqueur and lime juice, each, with ½ oz of both triple sec and amaretto. Strain over ice into the salt-rimmed glass. Sip.

So now you know exactly how to drink amaretto and what to mix, though, other than cocktails, you can always experiment with your own eggnogs, cookies, trifles, fudges, or your 2-ingredient instant mixes with Coke or club soda. However, as one of the best liqueurs of the world, it would be even wiser to try it with a ‘drink’ to let the perfect blend of almond and alcohol captivate your senses.