Chocolate Orange Espresso Martini

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Photographed in an UB Retro Coupe Gold 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Ketel One Oranje Vodka
1⁄2 oz Dark crème de cacao liqueur
1⁄2 oz Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
1 oz Espresso coffee (freshly brewed & hot)
2 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water) optional
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of quarter orange wheel slice or dehydrated orange wheel slice.
  3. Prepare garnish of quarter orange slice wheel or dehydrated orange slice wheel.
  4. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  5. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  6. Garnish with quarter orange slice on rim or float dehydrated orange slice.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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27th January 2025 is National Chocolate Cake Day

Review:

As the name suggests, an orange and chocolate flavoured Vodka Espresso.

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History:

In November 2020 I came across a few chocolate and orange riffs on Dick Bradsell's classic Espresso Martini. This is mine.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Chocolate Orange Espresso Martini contains 197 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 18.37% alc./vol. (18.37° proof)
  • 19.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Turbo Panther’s Avatar Turbo Panther
3rd May at 23:15
Used Mango Finlandia, this was very similar to a Carajillo. Easy and tasty afternoon cocktail.
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Andy Pyle’s Avatar Andy Pyle
23rd December 2024 at 18:37
Used Chase Marmalade vodka, didn’t have enough for 2 so added in Ferrand Curacao to regular vodka. Also used some Angostura Orange and Bob’s Chocolate bitters. Really liked it.
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Annechien’s Avatar Annechien
20th October 2024 at 13:41
This was quite the pleasant surprise! I have regular vodka and white crème de cacao but since it got requested I thought I’d give it my best shot. Added orange peels, orange bitters and chocolate bitters to the mix. Increased the crème de cacao slightly because I was afraid it would get too bitter. Served it with some scepticism but I got high praise. Tried a sip myself and immediately moved the recipe to our favourites.
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Ignacy Szczupal’s Avatar Ignacy Szczupal
24th December 2022 at 19:34
One of the few recipes with espresso that’s suits me !

However, even with an orange vodka, 5 ml of an orange curacao is not too much to bring up the orange.
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James Cornell’s Avatar James Cornell
21st November 2022 at 23:43
I used plain vodka and added grand marnier. Awesome!
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Simon Sedgley’s Avatar Simon Sedgley
22nd June at 06:52
Great tip. 2.5ml Grand Marnier worked a treat.
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Gregory Moreton’s Avatar Gregory Moreton
19th December 2021 at 22:58
The drink tastse fabulouse and makes a perfect alternative to a Terrys chocolate orange but the picture is not quite right as the Baileys is cream based and malthough looks good the dehydrated orange may not be right with a milk chocolate drink. I tried it with a grate of Green and Blacks Maya Gold and it is perfect
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28th December 2020 at 16:40
Used Chase Marmalade vodka instead... awesome tipple
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Stuart Holtom’s Avatar Stuart Holtom
24th December 2020 at 14:50
I added 15ml of Triple Sec instead of using orange vodka and it tasted great. Thanks for the inspiration
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
24th December 2020 at 15:08
My pleasure.
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RAHUL Kumar’s Avatar RAHUL Kumar
23rd December 2020 at 19:14
It's such a good drink
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