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Bella Donna Daiquiri
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
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.
17th April at 20:44
I put more lime juice and rum in it, and amaretto still sticks out for me
10th March at 18:01
Another keeper when you want a smooth sweeter finale' cocktail. Very nice indeed.
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)
I did end up trying this one, I prefer it! (No syrup in either)
15th August 2024 at 07:16
Hi Else. Welcome to our community.
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.
29th June 2024 at 21:13
definitely did not need the added simple syrup imo
5th January at 01:03
Yeah, with that amount of amaretto, I'm thinking the same.
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?!?
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!
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!
29th October 2023 at 18:06
I made it with chairman’s rum .It was great!!!
(I agree it is sweet but strong and fresh !!!)
(I agree it is sweet but strong and fresh !!!)
23rd September 2023 at 21:46
I would definite agree that this was on the sweet side as is. Recommend leaving out the rich syrup. It is not really needed with the sugar/cinnamon rim. Other than that, the flavor combinations are just fantastic. The cinnamon goes remarkably well with the Black Seal rum.
13th May 2023 at 11:00
Just had this as our first World Cocktail day drink and we were very pleasantly surprised. I didn-t have cinammon powder per se but had ginger bread powder which contains mostly cinammon and I think it made it even better, the aroma when bringing the glass to the mouth was wonderful. So I recommend not to skip the rim step (even with plain cinammon)
23rd April 2023 at 04:17
Nice- simple but very enjoyable.
4th December 2022 at 18:29
Juste switch the sugar syrup with camarel/fudge syrup and give me a feedback please
4th December 2022 at 21:22
Agreed, more flavour. Sadly, caramel/fudge syrup is not such an everyday ingredient compared to sugar syrup.
10th July 2022 at 06:36
Very good, but as many have observed, too sweet - even for me. I will be experimenting with more lemon, or less sugar.
15th April 2022 at 05:44
Was quite sweet as specified. I used about 1/3 of the suggested amount the next time around and it was great
7th April 2022 at 03:47
No sugar syrup. Used a touch of luxardo syrup from the cherry jar and extra lemon juice, exquisite as an accompaniment to cannolis.
10th March 2022 at 07:43
Wicked. I made a syrup, 2:1 with coconut sugar and used that instead and it should almost be criminal how easy this is to drink. The Amaretto is forward and if that's not for you I'd suggest upping the lemon to 3/4s a shot.
Too easy to drink.
Too easy to drink.
26th January 2022 at 22:47
Nice but too sweet for me, leave the simple syrup off for sure. I'll play around with this one backing off of the Amaretto and maybe adding some Tuaca to see what happens
23rd April 2021 at 18:30
Made this with Zacapa rum ( never sure how to categorise this) and it worked great. This is a strong one tho so take care!!
6th November 2020 at 23:23
Very good drink, but a little too sweet. It has unfortunate cough drop overtones, but these are easily ignored.
3rd February 2021 at 21:18
Agreed. Too sweet. Hence, I've cut the sugar syrup back by a third to 5ml / 1 spoon.
31st January 2021 at 00:20
I found adding some lemon zest and extra juice it can save one that’s already too sweet. Almost makes it taste like iced tea.
2nd November 2020 at 23:55
so good! I used golden rum because I was out of blackstrap rum, and omitted the sugar... it was perfect. (It seems like a lot of drinks here are too sweet, so I usually omit the sugar anyway) Also, J loved it
30th March 2021 at 20:12
Also tried this variant - tasty! Reminded me a bit of a Morgenthaler sour.
31st January 2021 at 00:38
Can confirm, just tried it. Nice tweak.
11th October 2020 at 23:58
Delicious! I bought a small bottle of black rum as called for in a cake recipe. Then I needed to use the rest so went searching for a cocktail recipe. This one is a keeper, indeed!
21st September 2020 at 18:11
Didn’t have any rum so made using spiced rum, also ran out of lemon so used lime instead. Worked out rather nice
Anonymous
19th September 2020 at 14:32
How do you make the cinnamon powder rim?
19th September 2020 at 16:57
To create a cinnamon rim - Wipe sugar syrup around the rim and then dip in a mix of caster sugar and cinnamon powder.
22nd July 2020 at 02:00
This is a MASTERPIECE, and I'm not much for rum cocktails so that's really saying something. I'm not sure it quite counts as black rum, but I made it with Mount Gay Black Barrel and with the extra touch of the cinnamon, it's so yummy that I think I saw stars on the first sip. 10/10!