Snow on Sand: Hot Coffee co*cktail w/rum, orange liqueur, and amaretto cream — Recipe Fiction (2024)

Snow on Sand: Hot Coffee co*cktail w/rum, orange liqueur, and amaretto cream

Naming drinks is almost as hard as coming up with them. I began with all that follows the colon: Hot Coffee co*cktail w/rum, orange liqueur, and amaretto cream. But the bartender in me rebelled, the story writer- who can’t come up with a satisfying title to save her life was just fine with utilitarian. If Friends hadn’t already done it for ten seasons I would happily name each post things like The One w/the Turkey Leg or The One Where Melinda Whips Cream. So Snow on Sand it is, you know it’s The One with Hot Coffee, Rum (that’s the sand part) and Amaretto cream (that’s the snow part).

Lately I’ve been shaking my cream instead of whipping it. Less clean up- the whipped cream is already in a glass jar with a lid. Plus, it’s easier to get to the softly whipped stage without accidentally going straight to butter. And bonus, exercise. If you count a few minutes of shaking a 16-ounce glass jar as exercise. I do if it’s good enough for the shake weight it’s good enough for me.

(warning this is Southpark)

FYI, the recipe and the photos don’t match. The photo is of one giant boozy co*cktail whilst the recipe is for two smaller slightly less boozy drinks with more whipped cream than pictured.

For a different twist on the hot coffee co*cktail (ie: no coffee except what’s infused in the rum try “the Snow Day” with egg nog!

Snow on Sand: Hot Coffee co*cktail w/rum, orange liqueur, and amaretto cream

makes 2 decadently creamy coffee co*cktails

ingredients

• • 2 ounces amaretto
  • 4 ounces whipping cream
  • 3 ounces dark rum
  • 2 ounces orange liqueur (I used a homemade concoction similar to Grand Marnier, as I recall triple sec can sometimes curdle cream though since the whipped is on top that shouldn’t matter)
  • 10-16 ounces coffee

directions

1. 1. shake up your whipped cream (See note above) by combining the cream and the amaretto liqueur in a lidded glass jar and shaking it until it’s thick enough to be softly scooped or poured but still rest on top of your coffee before lazily swirling into the drink in hypnotic eddies
   2. combine 1 1/2 ounce of rum and 1 ounce of orange liqueur in a heat proof glass
   3. top with 5 or so ounces of hot black coffee
   4. garnish with a generous dollop of amaretto cream (2-4 ounces, I’m not gonna judge either way, but if you use less you will have leftover whipped cream, but fear not because it’s in the glass jar you can easily re-incorporate it with a few good shakes tomorrow or the next day)
   5. repeat