LiqueursModerate confidenceFruit liqueur formulation varies between producers.
Apricot Liqueur
Apricot liqueur is made by infusing or macerating apricots into a sweetened spirit base, producing a rounded stone-fruit sweetness with a gentle tartness. It is softer and less sharp than orange liqueurs. It pairs especially well with other fruit and citrus flavours in a cocktail.
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Common uses
- fruit modifier in shaken cocktails
- adds sweetness to whiskey or gin drinks
Buying & storage
Keeps more or less indefinitely: Alcohol is preserving it. An open bottle keeps for a very long time, though aromatics do fade slowly.
Storage: keeps well once opened, store upright away from light
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
No published recipe lists apricot liqueur as an ingredient — but it may still appear below as a garnish or as a recommended substitute.
Stand-in
Where apricot liqueur is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Rum Runnerin place of banana liqueur
- Fish House Punchin place of peach brandy
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