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Cocoa Butter me Up

Appears in
The Thinking Girl's Guide To Drinking: (Cocktails without Regrets)

By Ariane Resnick

Published 2016

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This couldn’t be a newfangled healthful cocktail book if I didn’t delve deep into fat-washing booze and why you absolutely need to do it for the sake of deliciousness. It is, I kid you not, one of the most scrumptious uses of hard alcohol possible. The rich mouth-feel you impart with fat washing makes any drink go down smoother, so watch out for your consumption speed with these drinks and advise your friends to do the same!
When you fat-wash alcohol, you don’t end up with much of the original fat, so we won’t be overconsuming solid fat by any means. Cocoa butter has great health benefits like reducing wrinkles and preventing baldness. Fat-washing spirits with cocoa butter creates a white chocolate essence, so that’s the flavor we played off of for the bourbon drinks.

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