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Discussing Cherry Bakewell

Difford's Guide · 2023-05-09T09:51:50+00:00

I've seen the same cocktail with equal parts amaretto, cherry brandy and vermouth but's a recipe for an overly sweet cocktail – even for a dessert cocktail...

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Chris Dimal

5th August at 14:34

I halved the recipe, and honestly, I feel like the brandy wasn't needed. Delicious and fruity drink nonetheless. I wonder if it would be better with sherry, to get the nutty and even (maybe?) slightly breadier notes, as an ode to the pastry aspect of a bakewell. Or even a non-peated Scotch or Irish Whiskey?

Mike Gibb

20th July at 18:00

Intense. Tastes of a cherry and almond Bakewell tart. Best halved, or split between two Nick & Nora glasses. Went down very well with my partner: "it's a pudding! lovely, really like this one!"

Ares

16th March at 13:53

Made this one with blanc vermouth and I thought it was lovely. It's sweet, but not as much as one would expect from Heering and Disaronno together. I'll be coming back to this one if one day I get a bottle of dry vermouth to see the difference.

Ares

20th April at 11:13

Another update because I forgot to give one; I think I prefer a blanc vermouth over a dry vermouth for this one. For the blanc vermouth I used Dolin and for the dry vermouth I used Martini, but I wonder how it would go if I used Dolin Dry and Martini Bianco. Maybe in a very distant future I'll try different brands.