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Melktert shooters (melktertjies)
Melktert shooters (better known as “melktertjies”) is quite the modern South African shooter. It smells and tastes like melktert (South African milk tart) with a bit of kick and can turn people who never bothered with shooters or cocktails before, into melktert shooter enthusiasts within a single sip.
There are a few variations of this most sought-after recipe, but the basic ingredients remain the same. We settled for the following melktertjie recipe.
Makes approximately 860 ml
Ingredients:
- One 375 ml bottle Vodka (you can reduce it to 300 ml if you prefer less kick)
- One 395 gram (300ml) tin of condensed milk (use up to two cans to make it thicker and sweeter)
- Half of a 375 ml tin evaporated milk
- Ground cinnamon to serve
Method:
- Mix well, using a food processer or whisk, and bottle, or simply pour the ingredients into a 1-litle bottle and shake well.
- Keep in the fridge. Shake well before pouring into shooter or shot glasses.
- Sprinkle each melktertjie with ground cinnamon and serve chilled.
Comments
This looks great and it is so easy to make. I will definitely be giving this a try. Thanks for the recipe.
You're welcome Arnold. It is such a fun recipe that we really looked forward to publishing it :-)
This sounds fantastic! Great spin on an old favourite.
That's true Marisa. We should hunt down similar recipes, don't you think?
I can imagine the pandemonium if I serve this milktart at the next Bible Study.....ha-ha!!!!
Love the little tot glasses...
Sounds like total consternation Nina, but perhaps you can distract them by serving Cape Brandy Pudding first? ;-)
This is a great drink, but I make mine without the extra milk. One tin condenced milk and 5 tots vodka. yummy. Over ice cream it is even better.
... would you call it "spiked melktert icecream"? My taste buds are predicting good times ahead!
I wonder if it will make a difference if I use cane instead of vodka. I get chronic heartburn with Vodka.
maybe I should just try it
Hi Howie, Vodka works well because it's got a neutral taste, compared to brandy, for instance. I have no idea what cane tastes like, so you will have to try it and let us know please :-)
Wow - that certainly is original. Nice recipe!
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I can't believe I haven't come across this one before! Can't wait to make them for the next family gathering.
Adele, I'll admit that I didn't know about it until very recently either - perhaps because I'm not much of a cocktail-lover. The first I heard of it was when Marietjie, who discovered it on a chat group ages ago, suggested that we add melktertjies to Rainbow Cooking. I'm a convert now, and we've been trying out a few other recipes. Watch this space :-)
To make it nicer you can grate in a peppermint crisp slab. Believe me you WILL love it
We tried a slight variation of your suggestion, Amber, and we agree with you! Take a look at the Peppermint Crispie recipe :-)
Its also great if you replace the Vodka with Brandy! It gives a stronger flavour! and much more South African! We leave ours in the freezer which makes them nice and thick too.
We'll give that a try Zak, thanks!
hi, thanks for the recipe. My daughter visited a friend in Parys (SA) and came back with a bottle of melkterjies. We all loved it. I'm making it for a wedding, part of a "pudding platter" for each table. Put cinnamon and sugar round the top of the tot glass.
Thanks Marlicia :-) We realy love the variations you guys are coming up with!
I somehow think melktertjies is going to become as engrained into our food culture as Dom Pedros did. And that would be a good thing.
I want to make a few little gift bottles of this AWSUM mix as Xmas prezzies for friends - How long is it OK to drink for if its bottled?? Does it go off?? PS - I love the peppermint crisp idea on top :)
I don't really know Taryn. It is reasonably well preserved, given the sugar and alcohol content, and ours is fine after a week in the fridge.
How long can I store melktertjies in the fridge?
A week or two I think, but I don't really know - ours are usually finished within a week ;-)
We use Cape velvet instead of ideal milk, extra smooth and extra kick!!!
My cousin and I made these for my little sisters grad party and even the Canadians loved them, very very good!
Awesome :-)
You should try add Coffee or Amarula cream to this, or even Coffee liqueur
So it was my first attempt at making shooters and I wasn't really sure what to expect. I tweaked the recipe from the get go (we did crushed candy cane instead of cinnamon, and then gave each one a mini candy cane stir stick, and I'm certain my ratios were off), and so I think I may have deserved what was coming to me, but my friend and I tried to make them tonight and they didn't turn out too well. I think the recipe was fine, it was just my first experience with milk (of any kind) and alcohol. I'm calling it a learning experience.
Thanks for giving us something new to try nonetheless!
I am going to use this at a christmas party as a south african version of egg nogg - without the egg of course. Its gonna be a very merry christmas!
And merry will be the word, Kate ;-)