1 oz Licor 43
.5 oz Orange Liquor
2 oz Orange Juice
1 oz Soymilk
Shake with ice and strain into a large martini glass. Garnish with an orange wedge.
This is a take on the Orange Julio drink that I found in Food & Wine's Cocktails 2006. After making the original a few times I made the following modifications to see how it'd work w/ what I have at my bar. The changes I made were that instead of using 2 oz of orange rum, I used 1.5 oz of rum and .5 oz of orange liquor. I also subbed out .5 oz of cream with 1 oz of soymilk.
The smell on this drink is cream with slight hints of orange with a lot of rummy notes in the inhale. Taste starts off with cream and switches to a bitter pith before settling in orange and vanilla. Rum hits on the aftertaste. Blood oranges leave a long lingering bitter orange note on the tongue.
The modified drink is a lot lighter and more citrus driven than the original. Swapping the cream for soymilk turned this drink from a dessert cocktail (the segment I got it from) to more of a beach / pool drink. The heavily orange taste allow it to hold its own next to fruit drinks like the strawberry daiquiri or pina colada and the soymilk instead of cream keeps you from feeling bloated after having one or two.
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