Want to mix sweet, almond-flavored cocktails like a professional bartender? This guide will show you how to make Amaretto drinks that will please your taste buds and impress your friends.

Ameretto is a dark, sweet almond liquor. It is often used to mix with vodka or other hard liquors in cocktails, to add flavor and mellow the drinks. However, it can also be used as the main ingredient, and recipes showcasing Amaretto can be found below. Keep in mind that, because Amaretto has a strong, heavily sweet flavor, many people do not prefer to drink it straight up, and you may want to use a light hand with the stuff when mixing your cocktails.

Amaretto has a strong flavor, but it's sweetness makes it very drinkable. Before you start mixing drinks, taste a few sips of Amaretto on it's own. Get a feel for the flavor, and think of things to add to your drinks that will compliment it. It goes best with other sweet flavors, or brightened up with simple ingredients such as club soda.

Here are some tried and true Amaretto cocktails:

1. Amaretto sour: Amaretto and sweet and sour mixer
2. Amaretto coffee: Amaretto in coffee, topped with whipped cream
3. Amaretto sunrise: Amaretto and orange juice, topped with grenadine
4. Amaretto and cream: Amaretto mixed with cream or milk

Here are some more recent creations:

1. Almond Joy: Amaretto, creme de cacao, milk
2. Bend Me Over: Amaretto, sweet and sour mix, orange juice
3. Cosmic Kool-Aid: Amaretto, sweet and sour mix, grenadine
4. Mafia's Kiss: Amaretto, peach schnapps, sweet and sour mix
5. White Dove: Amaretto, white creme de cacao. vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream