# Cointreau

A clear French orange liqueur distilled with sweet and bitter orange peels, combining vivid citrus with floral and spicy notes.

Parent category: [Triple sec](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/triple-sec.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Cocktails

- [Apple Cart](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/apple-cart.md): A Calvados Sidecar with crisp apple brandy, concentrated orange, and fresh lemon.
- [Breakfast Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/breakfast-martini.md): Fine-cut orange marmalade gives a taut gin sour fragrant peel oils, pithy bitterness, and a texture that no orange liqueur alone can supply.
- [Claridge Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/claridge-cocktail.md): Gin and dry vermouth share the frame with apricot brandy and Cointreau in Léon’s 1922 Parisian fruit-Martini branch.
- [Corpse Reviver No. 2](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/corpse-reviver-no-2.md): An equal-parts gin sour combining Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, lemon, and a bracing dash of absinthe.
- [Kamikaze](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/kamikaze.md): A brisk vodka sour sharpened with fresh lime and the dry orange intensity of Cointreau.
- [Lucien Gaudin](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/lucien-gaudin.md): A lean, orange-scented gin cocktail whose dry vermouth and Cointreau sharpen Campari's bittersweet centre.
- [Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/margarita.md): A bright tequila sour balancing fresh lime with the concentrated orange of Cointreau and a savoury salt rim.
- [Mezcal Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mezcal-margarita.md): A bright, smoky Margarita balancing joven mezcal with Cointreau, fresh lime, and optional agave.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.
- [Spicy Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/spicy-margarita.md): A fresh Margarita sharpened with jalapeño heat and the green, citrusy lift of coriander leaf.
- [Spicy Mezcal Margarita](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/spicy-mezcal-margarita.md): A dry mezcal Margarita with fresh lime, orange liqueur, and a direct green-chilli heat.
- [Test Pilot](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/test-pilot.md): Donn Beach's compact rum drink layers Jamaican and light rum with lime, falernum, orange, bitters, and a trace of anise.
- [The Joy Division](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/the-joy-division.md): A dry gin Martini brightened with Cointreau and a restrained measure of absinthe.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cointreau
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/cointreau-49fed0ea.webp
- Source: https://www.cointreau.com/int/en/products/cointreau-lunique