Frangelico Cocktail Recipe

A Few More Thoughts on the Frangelico Cocktail

This cocktail recipe is a little unusual. Frangelico is a wonderful liqueur with some interesting flavours. It’s not too intense but it’s not laid back either! There’s really not a lot out there like it. What’s somewhat unusual about the Frangelico Cocktail is that, as implied by the name, it’s Frangelico based! Spirits like Whiskey, Vodka, Gin, or Rum are usually used as a base in a cocktail and then modified with something like Frangelico. This recipe chooses to forgo the usual bases and just use Frangelico instead. It’s then modified by the Campari and Limoncello!

Is it fine to make more than one Frangelico Cocktail at once?

Yes, that would be OK. Just increase the amount of all the ingredients and put them in your cocktail shaker. Just be aware of the potential to overfill your cocktail shaker. Err on the side of caution and make two batches if you need more.

Is it fine to make the Frangelico Cocktail now and serve it later?

Make this cocktail fresh! If you’re only letting it sit for five or ten minutes, that should be OK, but you don’t want to lose the aeration that occurs from shaking it!

Is there a good time to enjoy a Frangelico Cocktail?

This is definitely an after dinner drink. You can have it with, after, or instead of dessert. There’s sweetness there, vanilla, chocolate, but also tartness from the Limoncello and the Lemon Juice. It almost sounds like a lovely dessert pastry you’d order at a nice bakery. It’s really dessert in a glass!

Being an after dinner/dessert cocktail, you’re likely to be consuming it later in the night, and you’re likely to only have one. Of course you’re allowed more than one of these, but, if you’re having it for dessert, you’ve likely had a couple glasses of wine and maybe a pre-dinner cocktail or two! But if you’re feeling indulgent, perhaps having two dessert cocktails is just what you need. We’re not here to judge!

How strong is the Frangelico Cocktail?

Although Frangelico, Campari, and Limoncello usually come in between about 25-30% alcohol by volume, which is less than what you’d good with more common base spirits like Gin, Vodka, or Rum, this recipe uses a fair amount of it! 90 mL total in fact! You’ll notice on a lot of other cocktail recipes that they tend to keep the alcohol component around 60 mL. So there is a bit of booze in this drink!

We haven’t sat down and done the math or done a thorough comparison, but we’d estimate that, although the three main liquors in this recipe are lower in alcohol than what you may find elsewhere, since there’s more of them it pushes up the strength of this cocktail somewhat. We’re not going to say that the Frangelico Cocktail is strong, but we’re going to say it’s above average in strength. Let’s say slightly strong…

What music goes well with a Frangelico Cocktail?

There’s something distinctively Italian about the Frangelico Cocktail. The main ingredient, Frangelico, as well as the Campari and the Limoncello are all Italian in origin. Lemons aren’t inherently Italian, but close enough. But while the ingredients are Italian, the cocktail doesn’t feel excessively Italian at all!

We’re going to say that this is a good cocktail to sip on while listening to classic crooners like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. There’s an Italian American vibe with that old crooner music that really seems to suit a cocktail like this.

They don’t often do restaurants or clubs anymore where there’s a band with a singer, but if they did, this would be the kind of cocktail to have at one of those restaurants or clubs. Enjoy your dinner while listening to a great band then have one of these cocktails as you end the night.

Enjoy!