Name: Mae West
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 15 ml Amaretto liqueur; 7.5 ml Green melon liqueur; 45 ml Cranberry juice

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Adriatico Amaretto Liqueur

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Green melon liqueur

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cranberry juice (sweetened)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.

Prepare garnish of melon wedge.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with melon wedge on rim.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Mae West contains 227 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
18.2% alc./vol. (36.41° proof)
23.3 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Joseph Nelson Premium Member 5d

What a blend of tart and sweet! Much like the cocktail's namesake. I think the real Mae West would have approved.

The Amaretto and cranberry create the chocolate flavor profile and the splash of Midori gives it just a hint of cherry. I think next time I'll up the Midori to 10ml and see if it brings a little more sweet to the mix, since I was using a sweetened but non-blended cranberry juice. If it were my usual cran-cherry blend, I probably wouldn't.

Without Midori, I still think this would be a tasty drink. Substitute a little sugar syrup as the extra sweetener and lose a bit of the fruit undertone, but still have a chocolate treat. This is going to be a cocktail I bring out on select occasions.

Cam McAllister 1y

Kind of a strange mix, but not completely unpleasant. I find Amaretto takes over everything in a cocktail, and this is no exception. I would’ve halved the Amaretto. I also don’t really know what the Miduri is doing there, I can’t taste it.

Per Börjars 2y

I found it a little dull. A dashboard of chocolate bitter made a big difference.

Steve Erwood-Heijselaar 5y

An intriguing combination of one set of flavours that indeed results in a different flavours and a taste you wouldn't expect - this is just like a Lindt chocolate cherry in a glass. This is probably going to go straight onto my list of Christmassy cocktails.