Maleficent’s Orchard cocktail

  • 2oz Calvados
  • ½oz Benedictine
  • ¼oz green Chartreuse
  • ¼oz crème de cacao
  • 2 dashes citrus bitters

Stir and serve up with a cherry.

Based on a Widow’s Kiss

Rye variant

sub rye whiskey for ½oz-1oz of the calvados.

Balanced variant

Closer to the original Widow’s Kiss (proportions and choice of bitters):

  • 1½oz Calvados
  • ¾oz Benedictine
  • ⅜oz green chartreuse
  • ⅜oz crème de cacao
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters

Rich and complex.

Coffee variant

Closer to the original Widow’s Kiss (proportions and choice of bitters):

  • 1½oz Calvados
  • ¾oz Benedictine
  • ⅜oz green chartreuse
  • ⅜oz Mr Black Coffee Amaro
  • 2 dashes citrus bitters

Rich and complex, balanced, coffee arrives as a bittersweet flavour but not too obvious or dominant.