This cocktail recipe uses more Angostura bitters than you might be used to seeing. If you like bitters, and you like Cointreau, this is a great drink for you.
The recipe below makes a single cocktail

Bitter Cointreau Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz Cointreau
- ¾ oz freshly-squeezed lemon juice
- ½ oz simple syrup
- ½ oz Angostura bitters
- 1 dash of orange blossom water
- 1 egg white
- 1.5 oz club soda
- 1 Twist of lemon, (as garnish)
Instructions
- Chill a glass in the freezer.
- Combine the Cointreau, lemon juice, simple syrup, Angostura bitters, orange blossom water, and the egg white to a dry shaker tin.
- Shake without ice for 60 seconds.
- Add ice and shake for an additional 30 seconds.
- Strain and pour into glass.
- Top cocktail with club soda.
- Garnish with a twist of lemon.