Buttered Toffee Shot

Amaretto, coffee liqueur, and Irish cream shaken into a chilled shot - a sweet, toffee-like dessert shooter whose caramel note comes from the almond liqueur and coffee.

The Buttered Toffee is a dessert cocktail of amaretto, coffee liqueur and Irish cream, usually lengthened with cream or milk in its full form and served short as a shot. The name points to its flavour rather than its ingredients: the almond sweetness of amaretto, the roasted depth of coffee liqueur and the dairy weight of Irish cream together read as buttery toffee, without any butterscotch spirit being present. Toffee itself is a British confection made by boiling butter and sugar to the hard-crack stage, with regional traditions such as Yorkshire and Bonfire toffee dating to the 19th century. The cocktail is a close relative of the Toasted Almond, sharing the same three liqueurs, and is typically shaken with ice and strained. Some versions swap butterscotch schnapps in for the coffee liqueur to push the flavour further toward butterscotch, but the amaretto-coffee-cream build is the one most consistently documented.