My family's Amaretto recipe has been passed down through generations and was always made around the holidays. I had a ball whipping up batch after batch of this almond-like goodness and taste testing along the way. You can enjoy the liqueur in a cocktail, over a dessert or all by itself.
To spruce up the bottles for Christmas gifts, I tied a garland clipping and miniature ornament to Bake It Pretty's "Drink Me" tags using my favorite striped string. Enjoy the recipe; it's sure to get you in the holiday spirit!
Boudreaux Family's Amaretto
3½ cups sugar
1 tbsp. instant coffee
1 fifth [about 25.6 ounces] of vodka
Dissolve sugar in 2 cups boiling water. Add instant coffee and stir until completely dissolved. Remove from fire and stir in remaining ingredients. Be sure to taste, but consider yourself warned when you're making this at 9AM.
51 comments:
Your packaging is absolutely adorable! So Alice In Wonderland at Christmas as I'm sure was your intent. I'm so impressed.
Ok, adorable and beautiful and most certainly delicious! You are a fountain of great ideas! Rock on:-)
Gorgeous presentation- I feel inspired!
I linked your post over on my blogs, thank you SO MUCH for sharing! I seriously can not wait to make some Amaretto for myself....I alreay ordered the supplies and everything :)
I love everything about this - the idea, the labels, the bottles...very cool!
This is great! Who wouldn't love to receive one of these? I love the fact that you HAD to keep tasting it. What do they always teach a chef......TASTE YOUR FOOD.
You know what else is great......you won the drawing! Yes, that's right....my daughter drew your name this morning. Come check it out!
Adorable! You sure have put all those clippings to good use. Now your favorite string is my favorite string.
Such a wonderful gift and gorge packaging! I'm sure my mom is going to be making this now, she loves ammeretto.
you are brilliant! i am so making those one year...thanks for the adorable idea!
YUM! i'm definitely trying this recipe out. and your bottles look adorable!
xo
Kelly
What a fantastic idea! I love gifting (and receiving) handmade treats at the holidays and this is a splendid idea!!!
Thanks for sharing your resipe : )
i LOVE the alice in wonderland look of it! i bet it is delish!
Love this! Thanks for sharing!
I love them!!!! The tags are perfect and I especially love the Dr. Nut carton they are in!!
Very cool idea!
Oooh ... I need to brew up a batch of this!
What an adorable gift ... I can only imagine the awesome sours this would make.
I love the idea! Where did you find the jars?
What a wonderful gift! And your packaging is too cute; I especially love them all gathered together in your Dr. Nut crate.
This recipe sounds delicious; I am definitely filing it away!
So cute! And sounds oh so good!
you could NOT be any cuter. or cooler.
Y*U*M*M*Y
xo xo xo
Oh, I see a new tradition starting for us...the Boudreaux Family's Amaretto! Thanks!
oh, my these are amazing! Such beautiful packaging and I love the bottles themselves. I definitley will have to try to make this!
those are so dang cute!
GOSH, girl....this amaretto looks fabulous. Can't wait to try it.
The cute bottles make it though....you are so clever!
WHERE did you get those LOVELY bottles? I have been hemming and hawing over what sort of holiday treats to make and give this year, and kept thinking toffee/cookies/sweets but know that everyone gets overloaded with holiday sweets...what a perfect, beautiful gift!
hey dr nut,
it's me, your friend dr nut. i just updated my blog and my dr nut happens to have made the cut too.
we must be equally cool... or nutty? not sure which?
people will think we bought them together, the nutty thing is - we didn't!
XO
DN
Just lovely. A breathtaking presentation.
those are adorable! love the dr. nut box.
LOVE this!
they look so festive all packaged up in that crate- and I am a huge fan of the Alice in Wonderland "drink me" tags. What a great find.
i am going to give this a whirl this weekend! i would love to know where you got your bottles! **I hope to see you next Wednesday at La Casa de Letras for our Christmas party!! -Lindley
Thanks for the kind comments! It was a lot of fun to do these...and hopefully a lot of fun for the recipients to drink :)
As for the bottles, you can find these at the Container Store or at most online bottling shops. Even a local beer bottling supply shop will have them, and most cities have a store like that. Good luck and send me pics if you make some yourself!
xxCHEERS!
Courtney- WOW girl you rock! I LOVE the presentation!!!! This is so sweet of you to share your recipe. I was mentioning this to my husband and I could see his wheels a turning! I think he wants me to make a batch. Thanks again...
Hugs
xoxo
Nice job, Martha! Er, I mean, Miss Courtney! It looks FANTASTIC!!! And thank you for offering the recipe! Such a sweet little offering. It will be treasured and hopefully something I get to try out over the holidays! Mwah!
How cute! :)
Absolutely adorable and yummy looking! Would it be an option to use Angostura Bitters instead? hmmm.
Janice: I used Angostura myself because we had a huge, unopened bottle. I sent my Mom home with a sample of my Amaretto and she's going to make her's using Peychaud's...then do a taste test to see if it matters. I'll be sure to report back :)
such a cute idea court! love that dr nut container!
Darling packaging!
wow, i'll take a case! :)
Now I am on a mission to find a Dr. Nut box...love it!
Wow- The recipe sounds absolutely DELISH!
The bottles are so adorable!!!
hooray! got all the supplies (my Peychauds was only $2.99 at our local liquor store!) and will be brewing up some amaretto for friends and family. I feel like it's prohibition days and I'm secretly making "the good stuff" :)
Courtney, you are too cute...I love this idea!
This is adorable! I am a bakers twine convert. It's cheap and also comes on those huge cones. I've got red and blue and am tying it onto anything that'll hold still. Yipee, Christmas!
You're definitely the coolest girl on the block. Lucky a friend would be who receives this tasty stylin' gift.
So I'm a little confused by the amount of vodka you say to put in. You put 1/5th which typically means a 750 ml bottle, but then you put 25 ml out to the side - which is it? 25ml doesn't seem like enough but I made it using only 25 ml and it tastes good. Help!
this is a GREAT idea!
to Alisa Palmer said...
She actually said 25.6 ounces not ml.
hope that helps.
I've been lurking on your blog for a while, but after making this recipe, I had to delurk to thank you! So easy, and such a big hit with my friends.
Thanks for sharing!
Libby
I just got around to making this! It's 10am on a Saturday and I'm having a hard time not making myself a glass on the rocks. Soo so good.
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