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Flat White Martini

Flat White Martini

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Irish cream liqueur
1 oz Vodka
1 oz Espresso coffee (hot)

How to make

Serve in a martini glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare coffee beans for garnish.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with 3 coffee beans floated in a petal formation in the centre of the cocktail's foamy head.

Flavour profile

13.8% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 226 calories

History

Martini drinkers of the gin/vodka and vermouth variety may find this drink too flat and too white. However, for lovers of flat white coffees and cream liqueurs, this Martini variation hits the spot.

Developed in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s, the "flat white" is a coffee drink made with velvety, steamed milk poured over a double espresso shot. While similar to a cappuccino or latte, it is smaller and has a higher coffee-to-milk ratio. As Dick Bradsell's Espresso Martini gained widespread popularity in the first half of the Noughties, marketers at Baileys Irish Cream began to promote this cocktail.