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Italian Fascination

Name: Italian Fascination
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Galliano liqueur; 15 ml Coffee liqueur; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 37.5 ml Whipping cream

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Galliano L'Autentico liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Galliano Espresso Coffee liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
1 1/4 fl oz	Whipping cream

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and coffee beans.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
Garnish with 3 coffee beans floated in a petal formation in the centre of the cocktail's foamy head.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Italian Fascination contains 238 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
16.5% alc./vol. (32.99° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Whipping cream — Dairy

History

Created in the 1950s/60s by Donato "Duke" Antone, also credited with creating the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail. The Italian Fascination appears in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide and Mark Torre's 1984 The Bartender's Cherry.

ITALIAN FASCINATION
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1 oz Galliano
½ oz Kahlua
¼ oz triple sec
1 oz cream
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

ITALIAN FASCINATION
⅓ shot Galliano®
⅓ shot Triple Sec
⅔ shot Absolut® /Vodka
Fill with Half & Half
Shake
Sour/Highball Glass
Mark Torre, The Bartender's Cherry (Second Edition), 1984

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