Message 16565 of 20656 in Recipe Exchange

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I've been trying, off and on, for some time to come up with a light, not 
overly sweet drink reminiscent of those chocolate orange balls.  I like 
martinis and manhattans and I'm not so much into the sweet drinks.

But.....I came up with this tonight:

2 oz gin
splash of crème de cacao
splash of cointreau
dash of grand mariner
Shake and strain into a cocktail glass
squeeze of orange wedge to the glass (I threw the wedge in for good measure)

Two questions: one, anyone made or heard of this before and two, it was tasty 
and I'll actually make this one again but I felt that it was still lacking 
something.  Suggestions would be welcome.