A simple recipe for a homemade Christmas present from the kitchen that takes little effort and tastes delicious: creamy Amarettini liqueur. Apart from the small Italian almond cookies, you only need a few other ingredients to make the liqueur.
Christmas is just around the corner and you still need a small gift for someone? If you know that the person is not averse to alcoholic drinks, we have an idea for a quick gift from the kitchen: homemade Amarettini liqueur. And when we say “fast,” we mean fast! The recipe for the creamy liqueur with the small Italian almond-flavored cookies is really simple. The few ingredients are quickly mixed together, you can even do it on the stressful weekend before Christmas, I promise! Filled into pretty bottles and decorated for winter, you’ll quickly have a small Christmas present ready. The creamy cream liqueur with Amarettini cookies tastes particularly good served over ice – then the almond and marzipan aroma of the creamy liqueur develops particularly well.
What are Amarettini?
You’ve definitely tried amarettini before. Behind them are the small, round Italian macarons that are very hard and taste like almonds. You get the almond cookies with your coffee every now and then. “Amarettini” is derived – as you can probably guess – from the word “Amaretto”, a diminutive of the Italian term “amaro”, which means “bitter” and points to the origin of the almond-marzipan aroma that is typical of the Amaretto liqueur: bitter almond. The same taste is also in the small Amarettini.
What is the difference between Amarettini and Amaretti?
It doesn’t matter whether you use Amarettini or Amaretti for the recipe, because it’s the same almond pastry, just in different sizes. While with Amarettini the small almond cookies are meant Amaretti on the larger versions of the macarons. Both consist of egg whites, sugar and ground almonds and/or bitter almond flavor. And you can make wonderful liqueur from both.
More gifts from the kitchen for Christmas
We have put together a few more ideas for delicious gifts from the kitchen – from homemade punch to crunchy muesli – for you here:
Amarettini liqueur (recipe for 3 bottles of 250 ml each)
Ingredients
- 125g amarettini
- 2 egg yolks
- 250 ml cream
- 125 ml condensed milk
- 100g sugar
- 1 pack vanilla sugar
- 200 ml vodka
preparation
- Finely grind the amarettini in the multi-chopper. Beat the egg yolks with 150 ml of cream in a bowl.
- Put the remaining 100 ml of cream with condensed milk, sugar, vanilla sugar, vodka and the finely ground amarettini in a saucepan and slowly bring to the boil while stirring constantly. Stir in the egg and cream mixture and heat gently until the mixture thickens, continuing to stir constantly. Remove from the heat and stir in the vodka. Pour the Amarettini liqueur into sterile glass bottles, close and allow to cool. Then store in the refrigerator and use within 4 weeks. The liqueur tastes particularly good when served in a glass with an ice cube.
