Pousse Café Cocktail
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The Pousse café cocktail isn't 1 cocktail, it's more a group of cocktails. Essentially, they're layered cocktails and there are many different types. Here's one example.
Ingredients:
Serve in a Pousse Café glass
- 1/4 shot grenadine
- 1/4 shot dark crème de cacao
- 1/4 shot maraschino liqueur
- 1/4 shot orange curaçao
- 1/4 shot green crème de menthe
- 1/4 shot parfait amour
- 1/2 shot cognac
Garnish: No garnish.
How to Make
- Carefully layer each ingredient on top of each in the order given above.
About
Here’s a group of cocktails that you may or may not be making very often… The pousse-café literally means push coffee in French. It doesn’t translate very well into English because basically, it’s a category of layered drinks. Although the recipe I’ve listed below is the classic pousse-cafe recipe, there are several variations.
The B-52 shot that you’ll see in shooter section is example of a pousse café.
Most of the time, pousse cafés look great but they don’t taste very nice. The recipe below is an example of a beautifully layered pousse cafe, that doesn’t taste… you get the point.
