After dinner

Purists will usually opt to drink straight amaro as their dessert, but with its layers of flavour and underlying laid-back sweetness, amaro is a great base for dessert cocktails and spiked coffee.

CREMA CORRETTO

This simple drink is inspired by Italian café corretto, which literally means “fixing” coffee by adding a splash of liquor to it.

2 oz Amaro Amara d’Arancia Rossa 1 oz whipping cream

3/4 oz espresso

2 chocolate sticks, like Pocky, for garnish

1 Shake amaro, cream and espresso over ice for 45 seconds. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass and garnish with chocolate sticks.

Makes 1 drink

DID YOU KNOW?

Although many have never heard of a fernet other than Branca, “fernet” actually refers to an entire style of amaro—the bitterest kind. Fernet-Branca is the most famous of these, thanks to a global cult following, especially in Argentina, where fernet and Coke is the nation’s favourite cocktail.