Chico Byrne

You’ll love this easy chocolate chilli martini. It is luscious, smooth and hot at the same time. Clear liquid hides an intense chocolate surprise. With only three main ingredients you can whip these up to impress your friends in bulk and at speed.

Our spectacularly simple Chico Byrne is named for our friend, Sarah Byrne, because during testing the chocolate chilli martini was her favourite, by far.

Chico Byrne is a chocolate cocktail that is dairy free so your vegan friends will be happy, too.

Recipients: People who love chocolate, chilli and sweet, flavoured martinis. Chocolate lovers who are dairy free.

 

INGREDIENTS

30ml white crème de cacao

30ml vodka

Either a pinch of cayenne pepper or small piece of fresh, hot chilli

Cacao or drinking chocolate

Ice

 

EQUIPMENT

Saucer

Shallow cocktail glass like a martini glass or champagne coupe

Cocktail shaker

 

METHOD

1. Pour a thin layer of cacao onto a saucer.

2. Moisten the rim of your glass with a little crème de cacao and carefully put your glass upside down into the saucer to coat the rim of the glass with cacao.

3. Put a good scoop of ice into your shaker

4. Put a pinch of cayenne pepper into your shaker. Or if using fresh chilli chop it into small pieces and drop into your shaker.

5. Pour 30ml vodka and 30ml white crème de cacao over the ice.

6. Shake until your shaker is coated in icy condensation.

7. Strain into your glass carefully to avoid messing up your fine cacao rim.

 

 

 

ANECDOTE

We first tried a chocolate chilli martini at a restaurant in Bali, called Bambu. Dinner blew us away and so did their cocktails. If you’re ever in Seminyak, you must go.

Their recipe was amazing because it was finely tuned using their home made chilli infusion among other specialty ingredients. It took me a while to believe that our approximation that hit the sweet spot of balance between sweet chocolate, savoury vodka plus residual heat, is the most simple. But it is the best. Just ask Sarah. She’s been testing it for a couple of years, now and it’s still her favourite.

 

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