Cacao + Ghee- Washed Oaxaca Old Fashioned
Ice dipped in butter? 🧈🤔
#ad21+ Together with my friends at @codigo1530, I made a silky smooth chocolate version of a Oaxaca Old Fashioned using the fat washing process. It all starts with Codigo’s Anejo tequila, to which, we’re going to add cacao nibs and clarified butter (or ghee) and let it rest overnight in the freezer.
This process is called fat washing. The alcohol extracts the flavors from the fat and the cacao nibs, giving us a silky smooth tequila base with notes of chocolate and butter, which plays well with the rich chocolate oaky notes in Codigo’s Anejo.
We’re going to combine this more chocolate in creme de cacao and cocoa bitters, then pour that all over the butter dipped cube to give it more of that buttery aroma. Finish with an optional mist of mezcal then garnish with a cherry.
Would you try this?
Cheers y’all.
ingredients:
2 oz | 45 ml Codigo 1530 Añejo Tequila
½ oz | 15 ml Creme de Cacao
5 Dashes Cocoa Bitters
2 Dashes Saline Atomized Mezcal (Optional)
2 oz | 60g Clarified Butter (Ghee)
2 oz | 60g Cacao Nibs
Maraschino Cherry (Garnish)
instructions:
Combine all ingredients in mixing glass and stir with ice. Pour and strain in a rocks glass over a large Ghee cube. Garnish with a maraschino cherry. Mist with mezcal (optional)
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