Carajillo
A Spanish-Mexican coffee cocktail combining espresso with Licor 43.
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Ingredients
- Licor 431.5 oz (45 ml)
- Espresso1.5 oz (45 ml)
How to make it
- Pour Licor 43 over ice in a rocks glass.
- Top with fresh hot or cold espresso.
- Stir gently.
Glass: Rocks
May contain: Caffeine. Always check your own bottles.
History
The Carajillo is a Spanish coffee-and-spirit drink whose name is said to date to colonial Cuba, where soldiers fortified their coffee with rum for 'courage' (coraje). In Mexico it is now most often made with the vanilla liqueur Licor 43 poured over ice.
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