Moo'lata

Serve in a Martini glass...
2	fl oz	Dewar's 12 Year Old Scotch whisky
¼	fl oz	Gabriel Boudier Dark Creme de Cacao
¼	fl oz	Creme de cacao liqueur (white)
½	fl oz	Freshly squeezed lime juice
¼	fl oz	Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)

Display recipe in:

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Lime wedge

Comment:

Scotch soured with lime (works better than lemon) and sweetened with a touch of chocolate liqueur.

About:

Created in January 2011 by Yours truly (Simon Difford) at the Cabinet Room, London, England after mistakenly taking a bottle of Scotch from the speed well to make a Mulata Daiquiri. It proved a tasty mistake.

Previous Cocktail

Mizuwari
Fill glass with ice and STIR until water formed in base of glass. Add more ice and continue stirring to cool glass. STRAIN water from glass, pour whisky into glass and top ice to...

Next Cocktail

Prospector
STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Shaking not only mixes a drink, it also chills, dilutes and aerates it. Along with stirring shaking is the most common technique employed to mix cocktails.

How to strain a cocktail

When straining a shaken drink, a Hawthorn strainer tends to be used, but when straining a stirred drink it is traditional to use a Julep strainer. Both designs of strainer allow...

Blended Scotch Whisky

Blended Scotch Whisky, or 'Scotch' for short is by far the world's most popular whisky and accounts for well over 85% of all Scottish whisky. Although 'malt whisky' was the...

Chocolate & crème de cacao liqueurs

Chocolate, in all its forms, from an intense dark block to sweet melted fondue, has had a spell over our taste buds since the Olmec people in Mesoamerica learnt how to cultivate...

Liqueurs & cordials

Liqueurs and alcoholic cordials are sweetened alcoholic drinks made by mixing or redistilling spirits with flavourings and colourings. Within the EEC a ‘liqueur’ must have an...

Difford's Cocktail Hall of Fame - the all-time best known cocktails

Of the nearly 4,000 cocktails on our database the following 73 stand out as the most eminent. We have particularly selected drinks which:

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Welcome to
Receive updates packed with drinks, bars and cocktails content
Please confirm you are over 21 years old and enter your email
No thanks, continue to diffordsguide.com