Peanut Butter Manhattan (A Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey Recipe)
This peanut butter manhattan may not be the first Skrewball peanut butter whiskey recipe you try. But it’s one you’ll make again and again.
I was inspired by my peanut butter chocolate drip cake to try to make a peanut butter cup cocktail with a peanut butter whiskey. But no matter what combination of Skrewball peanut butter whisky and chocolate liqueur I tried, I couldn’t re-create that rich and creamy chocolate and peanut butter combination.
So I moved on.
A classic manhattan is 2 ounces of whiskey, 1 ounce of sweet vermouth, and a dash or two of bitters. My first peanut butter whiskey cocktail used this ratio. It was too sweet.
My second peanut butter manhattan was a “dry manhattan.” This cocktail is the same ratio of peanut butter whiskey to dry vermouth.
Finally, just to be complete, I made a “perfect manhattan” using 1/2 ounce each of dry and sweet vermouth.
If I were Goldilocks, my perfect peanut butter manhattan would have been just right. But it was the dry manhattan that brought out the brightest flavors from this Skrewball peanut butter whiskey.
Make a batch of my peanut butter cookies linked below, and you’ve got a dessert cocktail.
FAQs about this peanut butter whiskey recipe
Yes. Both are correct.
*They say* that a Manhattan must be stirred, because shaking makes for a cloudy cocktail. Do with that information what you wish.
We like Dolin Vermouth de Chambery.
I wanted to use peanut butter chips, but they disintegrated when I tried. You could try mini peanut butter cups, if you like. Or rim the glass with a rim of fine chopped peanuts mixed with sugar.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says that one serving for distilled spirits is 1.5 ounces.
Peanut butter manhattan (dry)
Ingredients
- 2 oz Skrewball whiskey or other peanut butter whiskey
- 1 oz dry vermouth
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
Instructions
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Add the whiskey, vermouth, and bitters and stir for 20-30 seconds.2 oz Skrewball whiskey or other peanut butter whiskey, 1 oz dry vermouth, 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Strain into a coupe or martini glass and garnish as desired.
Notes
Nutrition
What’s next?
If you make this Skrewball peanut butter whiskey recipe or have any questions, please comment here or share a pic with me on Instagram!
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Check out other uglyduckling bakery cocktails like “The Lady Bridgerton,” an Empress 1908 gin cocktail or a gin espresso martini. Or make another manhattan, but this time with brandy.
Like peanut butter? Try one of these:
peanut butter chocolate drip cake with peanut butter cream cheese buttercream
peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips and peanut butter chips
peanut butter Rice Krispie treats
chocolate peanut butter bonbons
peanut butter banana clafoutis
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