As appetizer or after dinner drink. Served with hot and cold dishes. Or added to foods and drinks, teas and coffees.
Here in Denmark it's a very old tradition - and also a popular hobby - to make your own flavoured schnapps. Because it's fun, fascinating and highly rewarding.
For years I have collected hundreds of Danish schnapps recipes. Some are new. Others very old, handed down from generation to generation.
I can't say I have tried them all. But here on my website you will find more than sixty of my favourite recipes.
Plus a great deal of useful information and articles to help you get the most out of your schnapps making - and enjoyment.
Useful Information About Flavoured Schnapps
Lots of useful information and guidelines. Learn about alcohol bases for flavoured schnapps, natural plant flavours, infusions, steeping periods, schnapps blending, sweetening, and more.
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Schnapps Recipes
Now more than sixty of my favourite schnapps recipes. All based on vodka and different plant material like fruits, berries, herbs and spices. The recipes are very informative and easy to follow.
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Almond Schnapps - Recipe
Almond schnapps - based on vodka and almond seeds - is highly enjoyable and very popular. Smooth and sweetish with wonderful flavours. Blends very well with apricot, ginger or peach schnapps. Serve
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Apple Schnapps - Recipe
Apple schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, aromatic apples - has a fresh, fruity taste with wonderful flavours of vanilla and almonds. Enjoy on its own - or serve with pie, cake, fruit salad, cheese,
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Apricot Schnapps - Recipe
Apricot schnapps - based on vodka, fully ripe apricots and stones (pits) - is very delicious. Sweet, fruity and flavourful. Blends well with lime schnapps and chili schnapps. Serve with chicken...
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Basil Schnapps - Recipe
Basil schnapps is very delicious and highly aromatic. Serve with fish, chicken and pasta. Or add to sauces, soups and stews where you would normally use basil. Sweeten it to make a wonderful liqueur.
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Blackberry Schnapps - Recipe
Blackberry schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, wild blackberries - is a very delicious drink. Rich, fruity and sweet. Enjoy on its own, or serve with all types of cheese, cheese cakes, desserts...
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Black Currant Schnapps - Recipe
Black currant schnapps - based on vodka and fresh black currants - has a rich, fruity taste and a deep red colour. Enjoy on its own, or serve with cheese cake, ice cream and desserts. Or use it in
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Black Pepper Schnapps - Recipe
Black pepper schnapps is hot, spicy and warming. The taste is very good. Great to sip when you are down with flu or cold, as it helps you feel much better. Mixes well with other flavoured schnappses.
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Blueberry Schnapps - Recipe
Blueberry schnapps - based on vodka and wild blueberries - has a beautiful blue-red colour. It´s fruity, sweet and rich. Excellent as after-dinner drink. Serve with cheese, cheesecake, ice cream...
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Caraway Schnapps - Recipe
Caraway schnapps - based on vodka and caraway seeds - is a very aromatic, mild and smooth schnapps. It has a light golden colour and unique flavours. Serve with cheese, crayfish, marinated heering,
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Cardamom Schnapps - Recipe
Cardamom schnapps is a very aromatic schnapps with a sweet, characteristic, light pungent and warming taste. Excellent as after-dinner drink or added to coffee. Blends very well with other schnappses.
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Cherry Schnapps - Recipe
Cherry schnapps based on black, wild cherries has a beautiful colour and a rich, wonderful taste with hint of almond. Serve with desserts or add to cherry sauce and jam. Delicious after-dinner drink.
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Chili Schnapps - Recipes
Chili schnapps is hot, spicy and wonderful. However - heat and taste all depends on the kind of chili pepper and alcohol (vodka, tequila, sherry) you use. Blends extremely well with Lemon Schnapps.
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Cinnamon Schnapps - Recipe
Cinnamon schnapps - based on vodka and Ceylon Cinnamon sticks - is strong, intense, sweet, spicy and very aromatic. Blends well with other schnappses. Fantastic when added to hot chocolate or used...
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Clove Schnapps - Recipe
Clove schnapps is a strong-flavoured, very spicy, aromatic and warming schnapps with a golden colour. It's mainly used to blend with other schnappses, or used in various dishes and mulled wine.
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Coriander Schnapps - Recipe
Coriander schnapps is spicy and aromatic. It's mainly used to blend with other schnappses, or used in marinades, pickles, soups, curries, ratatouille, fish and meat dishes, stews, and sauces.
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Crabapple Schnapps - Recipe
Crabapple schnapps - based on vodka and fully ripe crabapples - has a unique sweet-acid taste and wonderful flavours. Excellent as appetizer. Blends very well with peppermint schnapps, thyme...
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Cranberry Schnapps - Recipe
Cranberry schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, wild cranberries - has a wonderful taste and aroma. Enjoy on its own, or serve with turkey and other poultry. Very good as after-dinner drink.
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Crowberry Schnapps - Recipe
Crowberry schnapps - based on vodka and black crowberries - is one of the finest berry schnappses you can make. Has a strong and wonderful cherry-like taste. The colour is deep red. Excellent as...
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Dandelion Schnapps - Recipes
Dandelion schnapps made from the flower heads has a fresh and very aromatic taste. Made from the roots you get another kind of schnapps - dry and spicy with a pleasant bitter taste.
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Dill Schnapps - Recipe
Dill schnapps is a strong and very enjoyable schnapps. It goes extremely well with crayfish, gravlax, salmon, herring and cheese. Add it to sauces, stews, etc. where you would normally use dill.
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Elderberry Schnapps - Recipe
Elderberry schnapps tastes almost like a good port wine. It's round and fruity with hints of almond, vanilla, and chocolate. Elderberry schnapps blends very well with lemon schnapps or apple schnapps.
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Garlic Schnapps - Recipe
Garlic schnapps is mostly used in cooking and herbal schnapps blends. It has a yellow colour and the characteristic taste of garlic. Works very well in herbal schnapps blends, soups, sauces, stews,
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Ginger Schnapps - Recipe
Ginger schnapps - based on vodka and fresh ginger roots - is a spicy, slightly sweet and very tasty schnapps. Soothing and warming on a cold winter day. Serve with oriental foods, sushi, seafoods...
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Hawthorn Schnapps - Recipe
Hawthorn schnapps - based on vodka and hawthorn berries - has a unique sweet-acid taste and wonderful flavours. Excellent as appetizer or in combination with crabapple schnapps. Serve with wild duck
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Heather Honey Schnapps - Recipe
Heather honey schnapps has a light to dark golden colour and a rich, aromatic and characteristic taste and aroma. Serve with ham, chicken, lamb, seafood, fruit salad, ice cream or cheese cake.
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Horseradish Schnapps - Recipe
Horseradish schnapps - based on fresh horseradish root - is strong in flavours and highly aromatic. A very enjoyable and warming schnapps. Enjoy as appetizer. Or add a little schnapps to sauces...
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Juniper Schnapps - Recipe
Juniper schnapps has a beautiful bright yellow colour and a sweet, spicy and very enjoyable taste. Serve with smoked ham, poultry and other meat. Or add it to sauces. Excellent as appetizer.
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Lemon Schnapps - Recipe
Lemon schnapps has a fine golden colour and a fresh, enjoyable and aromatic taste. Goes very well with gravlax, sea trouts, lamb, chicken, and many other dishes. Blends well with other schnappses.
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Lemon Balm Schnapps - Recipe
Lemon Balm schnapps has a fresh taste and lemon-like fragrance. Blends very well with peppermint schnapps. Serve with fish and meat. Or use it in tea or dishes where you would normally use lemon balm.
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Lemon Thyme Schnapps - Recipe
Lemon thyme schnapps is a very fine, round and soft schnapps. Serve it with fish, chicken, lamb, soup and vegetables. Or add it to any sauce or dish where you would normally use lemon thyme.
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Lime Schnapps - Recipe
Lime schnapps is a very enjoyable schnapps with a fresh, aromatic taste. Goes very well with gravlax, sea trouts, lamb, chicken, etc. Add a sugar syrup and you get a wonderful lime liqueur.
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Linden Schnapps - Recipe
Linden schnapps has a fresh, fruity taste with notes of green apples and gooseberry. It's highly aromatic with a wonderful aroma. Serve with light foods, desserts, cakes, cheese and cheesecakes.
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Maple Schnapps - Recipe
Maple schnapps is a very elegant, almost wine-like schnapps, with rich, round taste and flavours. Very good as aperitif or after-dinner drink, or added to white wine or dry sparkling wine. Serve with
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Oak Schnapps - Recipe
Oak schnapps is a wonderful schnapps with a delightful whisky-like taste and rich flavours. It has a beautiful dark reddish brown colour. Enjoy on its own , or serve with chocolate, chocolate desserts
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Orange Schnapps - Recipe
Orange schnapps is mostly used to blend with other schnappses and liqueurs. With its bitter-sweet-acid taste you can use it to either enhance their flavours or create new schnapps combinations.
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Peach Schnapps - Recipe
Peach schnapps - based on vodka and fresh peaches - is sweet, fruity and aromatic. Blends very well with peppermint schnapps. Serve with pork and veal, desserts, ice creams or fruit salads.
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Pear Schnapps - Recipe
Pear schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, aromatic pears - has a fresh, fruity taste with fine flavours. Enjoy on its own, or serve with ice cream, fruit salad, cheese, cheese cake. Blends very well..
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Peppermint Schnapps - Recipe
Peppermint schnapps - based on vodka and fresh peppermint leaves - is fresh, mild and very delicate. Blends very well with peach schnapps. Serve with lamb, cheese, cheese cake and many desserts.
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Plum Schnapps - Recipe
Plum schnapps has a rich and wonderful liqueur like taste, fine fruity flavours, and a great after-taste. Can be served with a variety of foods or added to dishes, where you would normally use plums.
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Pomegranate Schnapps - Recipe
Pomegranate schnapps - based on vodka and the juicy seed pulps from fully ripe pomegranates - is delicious and really outstanding. Fruity, sweet-acid taste. Wonderful fragrance and flavours. Serve...
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Raisin Schnapps - Recipe
Raisin schnapps is a sweet, aromatic schnapps with fine taste and flavours of grapes. The colour is light to dark golden. Can be served with a variety of dishes. Blends well with other schnappses.
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Raspberry Schnapps - Recipe
Raspberry schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, wild raspberries - has a magnificent colour and taste. Enjoy on its own, or serve with desserts and cheese cakes. Or use it in jams, marmalades, sauces
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Rose Schnapps - Recipe
Rose schnapps - based on vodka and fragrant rose buds - is very delicious. Enjoy on its own as aperitif - or add a drop or two to a glass of dry sparkling wine. Wonderful on a warm summer day.
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Rose Hip Schnapps - Recipe
Rose Hip schnapps - based on wild, black rose hips - is a highly enjoyable schnapps. It has a sweet-acid taste with wonderful, aromatic flavours. Enjoy on its own - or serve with cheese, cheese cake,
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Rosemary Schnapps - Recipe
Rosemary schnapps is strong, spicy, and highly aromatic. Blends very well with basil, thyme, or peppermint schnapps. Excellent when used to flambé meat and fish dishes, or added to any dish where...
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Rowan Schnapps - Recipe
Rowan schnapps has a fine sweet-acid taste with notes of crab apple, rose hip and strawberry. The colour is pale red. Serve with venison meat, pork and poultry. Excellent as appetizer.
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Saint John's Wort Schnapps - Recipe
Saint John's Wort schnapps has a deep red colour, and a wonderful taste of strawberry, vanilla and dark spices. A very fine schnapps. Serve with mussels, shrimps, lobsters, cheese or cheese cakes.
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Sea Buckthorn Schnapps - Recipe
Sea Buckthorn schnapps has a very special, sweet-acid taste and a beautiful golden colour. Serve with a variety of foods. Excellent as after-dinner drink. Or made into a fine Sea Buckthorn Liqueur.
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Sea Wormwood Schnapps - Recipe
Sea Wormwood schnapps is a very old, traditional and popular schnapps here in Denmark. It has a pleasant bitter, aromatic and characteristic taste and unique flavours. The colour is pale green.
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Sloe Schnapps - Recipe
Sloe schnapps is a very rich schnapps. Fruity and sweet with taste of cherry, vanilla and almond. Has a beautiful deep red colour. Serve it with all types of cheese. Excellent after-dinner drink.
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Southernwood Schnapps - Recipe
Southernwood schnapps is a highly popular schnapps here in Denmark. It has a mild, very aromatic and slightly bitter taste and a wonderful flavour. Goes extremely well with seafoods and lamb.
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Star Anise Schnapps - Recipe
Star anise schnapps is soft, sweetish and very aromatic with a fine taste of liquorice. Colour is light brown. Excellent as appetizer - or served with fish, chicken, beef, pork, duck, soup or stew.
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Stinging Nettle Schnapps - Recipe
Stinging Nettle Schnapps - based on vodka and young stinging nettle plants - has a pleasant bitter, aromatic and characteristic taste. Blends very well with honey, rosemary or thyme schnapps. Serve
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Strawberry Schnapps - Recipe
Strawberry schnapps - based on vodka and fresh, wild strawberries - is very tasty and aromatic. Enjoy on its own, or serve with cheese cake, ice cream and desserts. Or use it in jams, fruit sauces
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Sweet Cicely Schnapps - Recipes
Sweet Cicely schnapps is spicy, highly aromatic with taste and flavours of anise and liquorice. Tastes almost like the Greek Ouzo. Very good as appetizer. Serve with a number of foods, or use it in
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Sweet Gale Schnapps - Recipe
Sweet Gale schnapps is one of the most popular schnappses in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries. Enjoy it on its own - or serve with seafood, soups, stews or cold dishes (smorgasbord).
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Sweet Woodruff Schnapps - Recipe
Sweet Woodruff schnapps has a verdigris green colour and a sweet, aromatic and enjoyable flavour and taste of woods and flowers. Very good as appetizer.
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Tarragon Schnapps - Recipe
Tarragon schnapps is sweet, spicy, and highly aromatic with fine notes of liquorice or anise. It has a beautiful golden colour. Very good as appetizer. Serve with a number of foods, or use it in
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Thyme Schnapps - Recipe
Thyme schnapps is sweet, round and soft. It has a dark golden colour. Serve it with fish, chicken, lamb, soup and vegetables. Or add it to any sauce or dish where you would normally use thyme.
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Tormentil Schnapps - Recipe
Tormentil schnapps - based on vodka and fresh tormentil rootstocks - has a magnificent red-brown colour and a delightful bitter and aromatic taste. Enjoy on its own or serve with more heavy food.
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Vanilla Schnapps - Recipe
Vanilla schnapps - based on vodka and quality vanilla pods - is a sweet and very delicious schnapps with rich flavours and aromas. Serve with ice cream, cheese, cheese cake, chocolate, dessert
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Walnut Schnapps - Recipe
Walnut schnapps - based on vodka and green, unripe walnuts - is very special and commonly regarded as the most superior of all flavoured schnappses.
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Willow Schnapps - Recipe
Willow schnapps is a very charming and enjoyable drink with nutty taste and flavours, and notes of honey, camphor, and cardamom. The colour is deep brown. Willow schnapps blends very well with...
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