Name: Golden Cadillac
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml White crème de cacao; 15 ml Galliano liqueur; 45 ml Orange juice; 30 ml Cream; 2 dash Orange bitters

Golden Cadillac
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Ingredients:
1 oz	White crème de cacao liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Galliano L'Autentico liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1 oz	Single cream/half-and-half
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of grated nutmeg.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with dusting of nutmeg grated over cocktail.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Single cream/half-and-half - Dairy

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This shaken recipe includes orange juice (classically, it doesn't), giving the otherwise anaemic-looking cocktail its namesake golden hue. Adding orange bitters helps balance and boosts orange flavour.

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History:

To quote the bar's own website (poorredsbbq.com), "Poor Red's is world-famous for its Golden Cadillacs. Cadillacs are a blended drink of Galliano liqueur, half and half, white créme de cacao and ice, most delicious! We are the largest consumer of Galliano in the world. Also famous for our award-winning barbecued ribs."

Poor Reds say, " In 1952, a newly engaged couple came to Poor Red's to celebrate their engagement. They asked bartender Frank Klein to create their own special cocktail that would match their newly purchased gold-colored Cadillac. The bartender served the drink in a champagne coupe glass to signify its celebratory nature meant for her and a sidecar glass for him. When you order one Gold Cadillac, you get two glasses.

Galliano noticed the popularity of the Gold Cadillac when their Northern California sales began to increase so they ran an advertising campaign for this drink from 1964 to 1967. The drink became famous around the world."

On Poor Red's bar menu, they call their signature cocktail simply "Gold Cadillac", as does John J. Poister's 1989 The New American Bartender's Guide. However, other vintage cocktail tomes, e.g. Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide, list it as a "Golden Cadillac", and it is by this name that this cocktail is now better known.

GOLDEN CADILLAC
Cocktail Glass
Shake
2 oz cream
1 oz Galliano
3/4 oz creme de cacao, light
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

GOLD CADILLAC
2 oz. Galliano
1 oz. white crème de cacao
1 oz. cream
Mix all ingredients with cracked ice in a blender for 10 seconds and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
John J. Poister, The New American Bartender's Guide, 1989

Nutrition:

One serving of Golden Cadillac contains 212 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
8.55% alc./vol. (8.55° proof)
10.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Henry Tran

31st August 2024 at 20:08

I prefer the version that skips orange juice and better. So basically equal amount of each.

Niccolò Murtas

20th February 2024 at 13:22

I don't know why should i spend 7 euros to have crepes delivered when you basically have the most delicious sweet treat home, with half of it being just orange juice. Nothing "high-class" but nonetheless very useful.