Chocolate Old Fashioned

Stir this decadent cocktail together for your Valentine, or for smooth sipping on a winter night. Dunrobin Distilleries in Vankleek Hill makes excellent, warmly spicy Chocolate Bitters.

By Charlene Rooke

1½ oz dark rum or brandy
1 tbsp (15 mL) maple syrup 
2 dashes chocolate bitters 
Dark chocolate shavings or curls, for garnish
Orange wheel, for garnish

1. Add rum or brandy, syrup and bitters to a mixing glass with ice and stir for up to 1 minute, until drink is thoroughly chilled. 
2. Add a large cube or sphere of ice to a rocks glass. Strain cocktail into glass. 
3. Grate (using a microplane, if you like) or shave dark chocolate over surface of ice. Garnish with orange. 

Makes 1 cocktail