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Looking to indulge in a decadent dessert drink? Sit back and enjoy the tantalizing carrot cake shot. With each sip you’ll be greeted by the perfect, well-balanced combination of warm spice and sweet carrot cake. It’s the perfect way to satisfy your sweet tooth and get your drink on.
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🥃 What is a Carrot Cake Shot Recipe?
A carrot cake shot is a delightful dessert drink that consists of equal parts of Kahlua, Goldschlager, butterscotch schnapps and Bailey’s Irish cream topped off with a rim of cream cheese frosting. When these ingredients are mixed together they create a flavor profile that tastes just like the spicy sweetness of carrot cake.
This is one of those interesting shots where you can take a variety of different liquors and liqueurs that you may not expect would have a certain flavor when mixed together and create something delicious. Each of the four ingredients provides just the right amount of flavor to create that sweet, spicy carrot flavor of carrot cake.
The creamy sweetness comes from the Bailey’s Irish cream. The warm spiciness comes from the Goldschlager which is a cinnamon schnapps. And somehow the butterscotch schnapps and Kahlua (which is actually a coffee flavored liqueur) add in just the right flavors to give it the taste of carrot cake.
As if the taste alone was not enough reason to whip this recipe right up, here are a few reasons you should try it:
- Drink your dessert. I don’t know about you, but carrot cake is my favorite dessert. So, what’s better than eating it? Savoring the flavors in liquid form.
- Easy to make. This one is not difficult to make it all. You need four relatively simple ingredients. All you have to do is slap a little cream cheese on the room of your glass and shake your ingredients together.
- It looks fancy. This shot, with the decorated rim looks fancy and impressive. It makes a great drink to serve as a centerpiece on the dessert table.
⭐ When to Make This Drink
This shot is perfect to shake up anytime you want to indulge in a dessert inspired treat. Looking for a few instances to serve it up, check these out:
- Dessert drinks
- Birthday parties
- Girls night out or in
- Holiday celebrations
📖 Variations
Although, you don’t have to change anything to make this shop delicious, you may be looking for possible flavor variations or ingredients substitutions. If so, consider a few of these ideas:
- Ramp up the rim. If you like walnuts in your carrot cake, then you can crush some up and add them to the cream cheese frosting rim to really take this decadence over the edge.
- Skip the Kahlua. You can still get a very similar carrot cake flavor without the coffee liqueur added in. Simply do .75 oz of the other three ingredients.
- Layer it. Want an even more unique looking shot? Create a layered shot by putting the cinnamon whiskey in the bottom, the butterscotch schnapps in the middle and the Irish cream on top.
🥄 Equipment
📋 Ingredients
- .5 oz Kahlua
- .5 oz Goldschlager
- .5 oz Butterscotch schnapps
- .5 oz Baileys
- (optional) rim with cream cheese frosting
- Ice
👩🏻🍳 Instructions
Step one
Get your shot started by gathering together everything you’ll need. This should include cream cheese frosting, Irish cream, butterscotch schnapps, Kahlua, Goldschlager, jigger, knife, ice, shot glass, Hawthorne strainer and cocktail shaker.
Step two
Get everything ready. Make sure that you have added ice to your cocktail shaker. And then prep the rim of the shot glass.
Take your butter knife and use it to spread a thin layer of cream cheese frosting on the rim of your shot glass.
Step three
Take the goldschlager and measure out 0.5 oz with the jigger. Then, add that to the cocktail shaker.
Step four
Take the butterscotch schnapps and measure out .5 oz with the jigger. Then, add that to the shaker.
Step Five
Take the Kahlua and measure out .5 oz with the jigger. Then, add that to the shaker.
Step Six
Take the Irish cream and measure out 0.5 oz with a jigger. Then, add that to the shaker.
Step Seven
Secure the lid of the cocktail shaker on. Then, shake for around 15 to 20 seconds so that the shaker becomes cold.
Step Eight
Pop the top off the shaker. Then, pour your shot from the shaker into the shot glass.
Recipe
Carrot Cake Shot
Equipment
- jigger
- cocktail shaker
- Hawthorne strainer
- shot glass
Ingredients
- .5 oz Kahlua
- .5 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
- .5 oz Goldschlager
- .5 oz Bailey's
- Cream Cheese Frosting (optional rim garnish)
Instructions
- Fill the cocktail shaker up to the top with ice.
- Measure out .5 oz of Kahlua with the jigger. Dump the Kahlua into the shaker.
- Measure out .5 oz of Butterscotch Schnapps with the jigger. Dump the Butterscotch Schnapps into the shaker.
- Measure out .5 oz of Goldschlager with the jigger. Dump the Goldschlager into the shaker.
- Measure out .5 oz of Bailey's with the jigger. Dump the Bailey's into the shaker.
- Stick the shaker lid on the shaker.
- Shake it up for around 15 – 20 seconds; or until the shaker gets cold.
- If you want to add a rim to the shot glass, now is the time. Grab a butter knife and spread a thin layer of cream cheese frosting on the rim of the shot glass.
- Remove the shaker lid, pop the strainer over the shaker.
- Pour your shot from the cocktail shaker into the shot glass.
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