At The Bottle Is a Wonderland our main focus is making the reader happy. When we receive a reader request we make every effort to honor it as long as it fits in with what we already have planned. We recently received this request:
“I want you to try a Golden Cadillac and let me know if it's as awful as I remember”
You would have to be a callous jerk to ignore such a well-reasoned and thoughtful request. It really tugged at our heart strings. Not to mention that the Golden Cadillac contains cream and fits right in with our Week of Cream.
Besides cream, the Golden Cadillac also has crème de cocoa (white), and Galliano. When I saw those ingredients I thought to myself, “Self, this is going to taste good.” The chocolate flavor of the crème de cocoa would mix nicely with the cream and the banana flavor of the Galliano. Or does Galliano taste like lemon? I knew it was yellow so it had to be one of those so either way it would complement chocolate and cream. It turns out that the yellow is some kind of trick because Galliano’s primary flavor component is anise. Anise is what you would think of as licorice flavor. When I learned this I thought to myself, “Self, this is going to taste bad.”
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| Off-White Cadillac |
Besides cream, the Golden Cadillac also has crème de cocoa (white), and Galliano. When I saw those ingredients I thought to myself, “Self, this is going to taste good.” The chocolate flavor of the crème de cocoa would mix nicely with the cream and the banana flavor of the Galliano. Or does Galliano taste like lemon? I knew it was yellow so it had to be one of those so either way it would complement chocolate and cream. It turns out that the yellow is some kind of trick because Galliano’s primary flavor component is anise. Anise is what you would think of as licorice flavor. When I learned this I thought to myself, “Self, this is going to taste bad.”
We headed to the store and picked up some Galliano, which comes in its famous stupid skinny bottle. As far as I can tell, the main reason the bottle is so skinny is to disguise that you are paying $21 for a 375 ml bottle of hooch by making it the same height as a 750 ml bottle. You could get a half gallon of Aristocrat Vodka for $21 and have enough left over for a $5 footlong. Since we are going to need Galliano for many other drinks on our journey, we coughed up the cash (see right sidebar). As is our custom, Mrs. Bottle and I sampled the Galliano straight before mixing it. It definitely had a strong anise component, but it wasn’t as strong as Sambuca. Mrs. Bottle thought it tasted like medicine and I couldn’t fully disagree. I like licorice, though, and didn’t find the flavor unpleasant. It was certainly better than Robitussin.
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| Used in a Purple Cadillac |
We tossed the ingredients into the Magic Bullet (a TBIAW first) and combined them with some crushed ice. After blending, we strained into a chilled champagne flute. That is actually a lot tougher than it sounds. It required dexterity and a funnel. We both thought the drink smelled atrocious. We were still hopeful that, much like Spaghetti-O’s, the Golden Cadillac would smell bad but taste delicious. It was not delicious. It wasn’t horrible, but we just didn’t think the chocolate and anise flavors complemented each other well. We were hoping it would be a little better. After all, it was invented at a barbecue stand and most are known for their mixed drinks.
To definitively answer the question, “is the Golden Cadillac as awful as I remember?” we say, “How the hell would we know?”
Overall Rating for the Golden Cadillac
Taste: 2
Ease of Preparation: 2
Presentation: 4 – Mostly because the champagne flute classes it up
Drinks until blackout: 6 – At around 21% alcohol it would take a few.
Ingredients:
1 oz. Galliano
2 oz. Crème de Cocoa
1 oz. Light Cream
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