Name: Barbara
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml White crème de cacao; 45 ml Milk

Barbara
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
³⁄₄ oz	Dutch Cacao white crème de cacao
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Milk (whole milk/full 3-4% fat)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of grated nutmeg.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with dusting of nutmeg grated over cocktail.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Milk (whole milk/full 3-4% fat) - Dairy

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Creamy and delicately flavoured. The nutmeg garnish plays as important a role as the cacao liqueur.

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Variant:

White Elephant

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

BARBARA
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1-1/2 oz vodka
3/4 oz creme de cacao, light
1-1/2 oz cream
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Barbara contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.29% alc./vol. (15.29° proof)
17.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Stav Kross

3rd August 2024 at 22:41

This was bad, really watery and not a lot of taste, hope it was the cheap cacao.

Chris Lamb

5th March 2022 at 16:19

See "White Elephant" for a variant without the milk.

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