Photo by Colin Price
This rather unsubtle, postwar favorite was restored to relevancy by the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, in which Jeff Bridges’s sublimely unfazed Dude drinks them religiously. It’s a good drink if you’re not inclined toward a lot of thinking at the moment (which was just about any moment for the Dude). The vodka ensures it doesn’t approach the flavor complexity of a Brandy Alexander. But if vodka and cream and coffee are among your favorite things, this may be your jam.
Recipe information
Yield
Makes 1 cocktail
Ingredients
1½ oz. vodka
¾ oz. Kahlúa
¾ oz. heavy cream
Preparation
Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until chilled and well integrated, about 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled Old-Fashioned glass.
Excerpted from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon © 2017 by Robert Simonson. Photography © 2017 by Colin Price. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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