Cocktails with Cocoa bitters
Cocoa bitters are concentrated aromatic bitters flavored with cacao, dashed into drinks to season them — essentially the same thing as chocolate bitters.
ABV43%High, but negligible in the glass, since it’s added only in dashes.
Substitutes for Cocoa bitters
Chocolate bitters are effectively interchangeable. A mole-style bitters also works if a little chili and spice is welcome.
Often confused with
Chocolate bitters
Two names for one product. Nothing changes but the label. Dash for dash it is interchangeable and nothing in the build needs adjusting.
Mole bitters
Cacao with chili and warm spice on top. It covers the chocolate and brings a slow heat, so use one dash where the recipe asked for two and taste before the third.
Storage
Cocoa solids do not fully dissolve, so this bottle settles. Roll it gently before dashing rather than shaking it, which aerates the extract and makes the dasher spit. Otherwise it is stable and keeps for years.
