Cocktails with Brown crème de cacao
Brown crème de cacao is a sweet, dark-brown chocolate liqueur made from cocoa beans, the richer-colored counterpart to the white version.
ABV20–25%
Substitutes for Brown crème de cacao
Cocoa is the flavor and color is the only real variable inside the category, so the question is whether the drink is meant to look dark. Outside it nothing tastes of cocoa the same way.
On the label
- “crème de”
- Nothing to do with cream. EU rules set a minimum of 250 grams of sugar per liter for anything sold as crème de, and it is that sugar, not dairy, that gives the syrupy weight.
- white vs brown
- Same liqueur, different coloring. The clear version exists so the drink keeps its own color and clarity; the flavor is the same either way.
Often confused with
Strip the bean pigment out and you have this. They taste alike, so the only question is whether the drink should come out pale or brown.
