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Coconut Margarita

Name: Coconut Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Reposado tequila; 22.5 ml Coconut liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 5 ml White crème de cacao; 5 drop Vanilla bitters; 5 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (5)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Reposado tequila (100% agave)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Malibu Original coconut rum liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur
5 drop	Vanilla bitters
5 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
RIM glass with desiccated coconut (moisten outside edge with lime juice and dip into dedicated coconut).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Serve naked, without garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Coconut Margarita contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.53% alc./vol. (37.05° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in September 2025 by yours truly.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

This Margarita works much better with the vanilla notes from a good reposado tequila and is a lesser cocktail when made with blanco. The white cacao liqueur and vanilla bitters are more than just niceties; they bring the other ingredients in the cocktail together.

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Malibu Original 1000ml - makes 44 cocktails
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Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$31.99 $0.21 per cocktail

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Duncan McDonald Premium Member 1y

Found it a tad sour for my taste. Added a little sugar syrup and it was beautiful

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