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Chocolate Sidecar

After dinner/digestif

4.0 48 ratings

Ingredients

3/4 oz Cognac (brandy)
3/4 oz Brown/dark cacao liqueur
3/4 oz Tawny port
3/4 oz Lime juice
1/3 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 RIM glass with cocoa powder and sugar (moisten outside of rim with sugar syrup and dip into cocoa powder and sugar mix).

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Flavour profile

13.9% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 192 calories

History

A Sidecar variation with chocolate, port wine, and richness balanced by lime.

This recipe is adapted from a version created in 2005 by Wayne Collins for Maxxium UK.

Created by Wayne Collins