Café Brûlot
New Orleans' flaming tableside coffee ritual — brandy, Cointreau, cinnamon, and cloves ignited with orange and lemon peel, then extinguished with strong dark coffee. Theater in a cup.
Served in a Demitasse Cup glass · Garnish: Orange twist, cinnamon stick · Difficulty: hard
Ingredients
- 2 oz Cognac or Brandy
- 0.5 oz Cointreau
- 1 whole Cinnamon Stick
- 4 whole Whole Cloves
- 1 piece Orange Peel (long strip)
- 1 piece Lemon Peel (long strip)
- 4 oz Strong Hot Coffee
- 1 tsp Sugar
Instructions
- In a chafing dish or heatproof bowl, combine cognac, Cointreau, sugar, spices, and citrus peels.
- Warm gently over low flame until the cognac just begins to release steam.
- Carefully ignite — the liquid will burn with a blue flame.
- Slowly ladle the flaming liquid over the citrus peels for 1 minute.
- Pour in hot coffee to extinguish the flame.
- Strain into warmed demitasse cups.