Name: Crossbow
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 20 ml Triple sec; 20 ml White crème de cacao; 10 ml Chilled water

Crossbow
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	White crème de cacao liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Chilled water omit if using wet ice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange juice and chocolate powder rim &/or orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Surprisingly dry, chocolate and orange laced with gin.

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History:

Originally a 3-equal parts cocktail, we discovered in 2005 at Bar Opiume, Singapore.

Nutrition:

One serving of Crossbow contains 201 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
24.41% alc./vol. (24.41° proof)
23.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Ares

16th May at 14:23

Well, I'm actually out of London Dry but this didn't stop me from trying this one. I decided to go for a 2:1:1 ratio so I used 22.5ml for both crème de cacao (Bols) and triple sec (Cointreau), and the gin I used was Roku.

You can't go wrong with chocolate and orange together, and they are definitely the first thing I could taste, but the gin follows right behind and leaves a very pleasant aftertaste that lingers in your mouth.

It's simple and good, has a nightcap cocktail vibe. I suppose the brands you use will make this cocktail very special or very weird, but experimenting is fun, so I'm definitely coming back to this one.

G. M. Genovese

2nd May 2024 at 14:19

I've been out of white creme de cacao for awhile and have no urgent need to get more, so when testing drinks I've been using either of the two dark versions (Cartron, Tempus Fugit) in stock at my home bar. The Cartron was quite good in this and, for whatever reason, this drink seems to have finally revealed to me the subtle differences between the white and dark. They're not quite interchangeable... With the Cartron/dark, 8:3:2 was the best ratio I found.

Chris Lamb

13th November 2022 at 08:15

Surprisingly nice. Out of interest, how does garnishing with orange *juice* work?

Chris Lamb

14th November 2022 at 07:55

Ahh, that makes sense. (I thought it was some kind of orange juice float!)

Simon Difford

13th November 2022 at 09:28

Moisten the outside of the rim with orange juice and then dip into chocolate powered. The orange juice is sticky.

Jeremy Harrold

22nd May 2021 at 01:21

Equal parts version also in Paul Martin’s 1997 book ‘World Encyclopaedia of Cocktails’. Both versions are tasty, the equal parts being richer in taste and mouthfeel with orange pushing through...a bit more 90’s!

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