Maleficent’s Orchard cocktail
- 2oz Calvados
- ½oz Benedictine
- ¼oz green Chartreuse
- ¼oz crème de cacao
- 2 dashes citrus bitters
Stir and serve up with a cherry.
Based on a Widow’s Kiss
Rye variant
sub rye whiskey for ½oz-1oz of the calvados.
Balanced variant
Closer to the original Widow’s Kiss (proportions and choice of bitters):
- 1½oz Calvados
- ¾oz Benedictine
- ⅜oz green chartreuse
- ⅜oz crème de cacao
- 2 dashes angostura bitters
Rich and complex.
Coffee variant
Closer to the original Widow’s Kiss (proportions and choice of bitters):
- 1½oz Calvados
- ¾oz Benedictine
- ⅜oz green chartreuse
- ⅜oz Mr Black Coffee Amaro
- 2 dashes citrus bitters
Rich and complex, balanced, coffee arrives as a bittersweet flavour but not too obvious or dominant.