Name: Chocolate Sidecar
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Dark crème de cacao; 22.5 ml Tawny port; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Chocolate Sidecar
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Cognac (brandy)
³⁄₄ oz	Dark crème de cacao liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Port
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)

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Prepare:

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

How to make:

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

Garnish:

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

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Tawny port - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A riff on a Sidecar with chocolate, port wine and sugary richness balanced by lime juice.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2005 by Wayne Collins for Maxxium UK.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Chocolate Sidecar contains 192 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
13.9% alc./vol. (27.79° proof)
13.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Josh Harpoon

3rd January at 20:36

Just like Avery said, more port than chocolate. More brown coloured than black as seen above. A nice cocktail.

Josh Harpoon

24th January at 21:41

a new attempt today has a better balance between port and chocolate, very nice.

Henry Tran

1st May 2025 at 15:02

Very good using 15ml butterscotch liqueur instead of 10ml simple syrup!

Zach Schwartz

2nd July 2024 at 02:33

I used 1/4 oz triple sec instead of the 1/3 oz simple syrup, to make it more sidecar-like and a bit less sweet. I think it’s great with the hint of orange. I also used ruby port because I didn’t have tawny, which gives it a lovely deep red hue. Overall quite a tasty dessert drink.

ian roberts

1st January 2024 at 17:47

Very nice using maple syrup instead of sugar syrup

Marek Vranka

9th December 2023 at 11:38

very good, however, I will try it without sugar and with less lime next time.

Avery Garnett

21st October 2023 at 19:22

Surprisingly a lot less chocolate and a lot more port than you'd think. Even at 10ml of a 1:1 simple it was very sweet - I'd probably halve it if not remove it entirely next time.