Amaretto Stone Sour

A bubble glass filled with the amaretto cocktail, with the other old fashioned glass in the back -square

This icy amaretto stone sour has the perfect amount of citrus to sweetness. It's a wonderful cocktail and is just what you need to cool down in the summer.

Course Cocktail

Cuisine American

Keyword amaretto sour, amaretto stone sour, sour cocktail

Prep Time 5

Total Time 5

Servings cocktails

Calories 254kcal

Author Elaine Benoit

Equipment

Ingredients

4 ounces amaretto (or other almond flavored liqueur)
4 ounces orange juice
2 ounces lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 ounce simple syrup (optional)

Garnish

2 maraschino cherries (rinsed)
2 wide orange twists (see notes on how to cut them)

Instructions

Fill shaker halfway with ice.
Add amaretto, orange juice, lime juice and simple syrup (if you're using it).
4 ounces amaretto, 4 ounces orange juice, 2 ounces lime juice, 1 ounce simple syrup
Add fresh ice to glasses. I use large ice cubes.
Cap the shaker and shake for 15 seconds. Strain and divide the liquid between the two glasses. At this time you can add the ice cubes from the shaker between the two glasses as well.
Add one cherry and one orange twist to each glass.
2 maraschino cherries, 2 wide orange twists
Sip
Smile
Enjoy

Notes

Helpful tips

Make your own sweet and sour mixture. Once you do, you'll never go back to store-bought. I like that you can control how sweet the mixture is. I find store-bought sweet and sour mixes are way too sweet and acidic.

I'm not a real big sweet cocktail type of gal. So that means, when I make a cocktail that uses sweet and sour, I always make it more sour than sweet. So, that means 2 parts citrus to 1 part sweet.

I believe that nowadays the public's palate is ruined by the added sugar in so many foods. Make the sweet and sour the way I do in this recipe to see that you don't need equal parts of sweet to sour. You'll be glad you did.

I'm using Amaretto which is an almond-flavored Italian liqueur, you can substitute it with some other almond liqueurs that is more budget friendly.

Since Amaretto or almond liqueur and orange juice are both sweet, for this cocktail, you can forego adding sweetener. Try it with and without the simple syrup to see which you prefer as you can always add sweetness but you can't subtract it.

Rinse two maraschino cherries for the garnish and set aside. The reason you rinse them is that you don't want the extra syrup in the cocktail as it will add sweetness.

For the other garnish, you will cut two large slices out of the orange skin. Cut them as long in length and width as you want but make sure not to cut too much into the white pith.

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