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

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

2/3 fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

2/3 fl oz

Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur

1/3 fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

RIM GLASS with cocoa powder (moisten outside rim with orange juice and dip into cocoa powder).

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Crossbow contains 201 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
24.41% alc./vol. (48.82° proof)
24.9 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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BRUSH 3w

A surprisingly boozy dessert drink. Heavily reminds me of Lindt's orange chocolate.

Ares 1y

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 Premium Member 2y

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 Premium Member 3y

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

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

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

Chris Lamb Premium Member 3y

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

Jeremy Harrold 5y

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!