Delicious Chocolate Old Fashioned Recipe

If you’re looking for a decadent twist on an old classic, try out delicious chocolate old fashioned cocktail. This cocktail is a perfect dessert drink or a simple after dinner sipper.

What is a Chocolate Old Fashioned?

A chocolate old fashioned is a combination of whiskey, orange bitters, chocolate bitters and chocolate liqueur. It is essentially a chocolate flavored version of the commonly known old fashioned cocktail. It has a strong whiskey flavor with a little touch of chocolate and citrus on the back end.

Whiskey comes in several different variations including Irish whiskey (which is what we’re going to use in this recipe), bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, and Canadian whiskey to name a few.

Whiskey even comes and some flavor variations such as chocolate whiskey and peanut butter whiskey. For the purposes of this cocktail any whiskey works well. We prefer the sweeter smoother Irish whiskey or a chocolate whiskey.

What are bitters?

Bitters are essentially a flavoring extract. They’re made by extracting the flavor out of things like fruits or spices and mixing it with water and alcohol.

Variations

This cocktail doesn’t have a standard recipe, so you may find several variations of how to make this cocktail. Some of these include:

• using chocolate whiskey instead of plain whiskey.
• using a chocolate honey syrup instead of a chocolate liqueur.
• Adding your bitters straight onto a sugar cube for the sweet flavor.
• You can even use a peanut butter whiskey to have a peanut butter chocolate old fashioned.

Other chocolate flavored cocktails are: Chocolate Martini, Chocolate cake shot or the girl scout cookie shot

How to make this drink:

This cocktail is super easy to serve up. You simply add your ingredients to the Shaker and shake well. You should be able to whip this one up in 2 minutes or less.

Equipment:

• Rocks/Scotch/Bourbon glass
• jigger
• Hawthorne strainer
• cocktail shaker

Ingredients:

• 2 dashes orange bitters
• 2 dashes chocolate bitter
• 1.5 oz whiskey
• .5 oz chocolate liqueur
• Orange slice or twist
• Ice

Instructions:

Step one

Grab together your chocolates bitters, orange bitters, whiskey, chocolate liqueur, orange, cocktail shaker, strainer, jigger and rocks glass.

Step two

If you’re choosing to add an orange garnish then you’ll want to make that next. Cut a slice from your orange. Then cut a small notch and a peel and stick it on the rim of your glass.

Step three

Then go ahead and fill up both your rock’s class and your cocktail shaker to the tops with ice.

Step four

Now we’re going to get your ingredients measured out. Take your jigger and your whiskey. Measure 1.5 oz of whiskey. Then toss that into your cocktail shaker.

Step Five

Take your jigger and your chocolate liqueur. Measure 5 oz of chocolate liqueur. Then toss that into your cocktail shaker with your whiskey.

Step Six

Now, add two dashes of orange bitters. And then two dashes of chocolate bitters both into your cocktail shaker.

Step seven

Now we need to get everything stirred together. Slap the top on your cocktail shaker and give it a shake. This should take around 20 seconds or so. You are shaker should be cold and icy on the outside when you are finished.

Step Eight

Pop the lid off your Shaker and replace it with your strainer. Then strain your liquid into your rock’s glass.

Your drink is ready for sipping. Enjoy!