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Drink · 6 min · 1 small coupe

Cacao flip

Chocolate liqueur, whole egg, cream. Dry shake, then ice. Nutmeg. Dessert, cold.

The sheet · 1 small coupe · 6 min

medium

Why tonight. Chocolate liqueur, whole egg, cream. Dry shake, then ice. Nutmeg. Dessert, cold.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • creme de cacao
  • eggs
  • cream
  • sugar

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: nutmeg.

Method

  1. A whole egg, not just the white. That is what makes it a flip and it gives a richness a foam cannot.
  2. Dry shake without ice for a full twenty seconds first, so the egg emulsifies before it chills and stiffens.
  3. Then shake hard with ice and double-strain.
  4. Nutmeg grated over the top. It is dessert, and it should be served in something small.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

creme de cacao
Chocolate as a sweetener, and the clear version tastes the same as the brown one.
eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
cream
Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.
sugar
Not just sweetness — it balances acid and bitterness, which is why a sour drink and a tomato sauce both want a little.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

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