Name: Bella Donna Daiquiri
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Dark/black rum; 45 ml Amaretto liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Bella Donna Daiquiri
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Dark/black/blackstrap rum
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Disaronno amaretto
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
RIM glass with sugar and cinnamon powder. (Moisten outside edge with lime juice and dip into mix of 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder to ½ cup white sugar.)
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

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Review:

Back in 2003, this was the hit cocktail for Difford's Guide staff at the Bellagio, Las Vegas, after working at the Nightclub & Bar Beverage Convention.

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History:

Adapted from a drink discovered in 2003 at Bellagio in Las Vegas, USA. Whether this cocktail is named after Bella Donna, the 1981 debut solo album by Stevie Nicks, or Atropa belladonna the poisonous plant commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade is not recorded.

Nutrition:

One serving of Bella Donna Daiquiri contains 289 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
20.46% alc./vol. (20.46° proof)
22.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Ares

20th April at 10:55

Used Lemon Hart for the rum, Disaronno amaretto and went for 22.5ml of lemon juice. Sweet and bright! I decided to ignore the sugar syrup, but I would go for 15ml of lemon juice if I had used another kind of rum. I ignored the garnish because I'm lazy, but I can imagine how the cinnamon would work here, so maybe I'll just grate some on top next time.

István GT

17th April at 20:44

I put more lime juice and rum in it, and amaretto still sticks out for me

Walter Brookbank

10th March at 18:01

Another keeper when you want a smooth sweeter finale' cocktail. Very nice indeed.

Elise

14th August 2024 at 12:06

Just started getting into cocktails, and this has been a helpful guide, but I never felt the need to comment until now. I had just got amaretto and was deciding which cocktail to try. I had narrowed it down to this and the french connection/godchild. I somehow got confused, and though I decided upon this one, I used cognac instead of rum! Not a total disaster, I guess those two go together in the other ones, so it was nice enough.
I did end up trying this one, I prefer it! (No syrup in either)

Simon Difford

15th August 2024 at 07:16

Hi Else. Welcome to our community.

Rollin Kuhn

30th June 2024 at 02:04

Used a locally produced dark-ish rum with a pretty strong character, and no cinnamon or rim of any kind, which it definitely did not need, IMO. The rum I used was strong enough to balance the additional sweet from the sugar syrup pretty well. Overall I liked this one, and I'm glad to finally find something to use amaretto in that isn't overpowered by its flavor. The rum/amaretto combo works really well.

Yorey C

29th June 2024 at 21:13

definitely did not need the added simple syrup imo

Andy Rankin

5th January at 01:03

Yeah, with that amount of amaretto, I'm thinking the same.

G. M. Genovese

20th June 2024 at 11:26

Myers's and Gozio was a fortunate combo. Didn't apply the cinnamon garnish but, wow, does this already have a peculiarly strong sense of cinnamon going on. Somehow, I did not find this drink too sweet... But to apply the 'Daiquiri' tag to this?!?

Linda Shaverin Hirsh

10th March 2024 at 20:24

I reduced the sugar but it was still a little too sweet for me. Next time I will try upping the lemon as well. Me and the other “discerning drinkers” in my household enjoyed it a lot, nevertheless. Agree that it goes down a tad too easily!

Peter McCarthy

2nd March 2024 at 05:36

Tasty! With the cinnamon, it almost gives me a "cider" vibe, so I think this would be particularly enjoyable in the autumn (but also any night of the year...). Nice to have an atypical cocktail made with dark/black rum to add to the roster!