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Italian Fascination

Creamy (e.g. Dirty banana) · Herbal

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Ingredients

1 oz Galliano liqueur
1/2 oz Coffee liqueur
1/4 oz Triple sec
1 1/4 oz Whipping cream

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and coffee beans.

Method

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

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.
  2. 6 Garnish with 3 coffee beans floated in a petal formation in the centre of the cocktail's foamy head.

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Flavour profile

16.5% alc./vol. · 1.1 standard drinks · 238 calories

History

Cream softens Galliano's peppermint-led, herbal and spirituous notes, adding coffee and orange.

Donato "Duke" Antone, credited with the creation of the Harvey Wallbanger, is also said to have invented the Italian Fascination in the 1950s or 1960s. This cocktail made an appearance in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide and Mark Torre's 1984 The Bartender's Cherry. Stanley M. Jones' Jones' Complete Barguide lists the Italian Fascination as follows: ITALIAN FASCINATION Cocktail Glass Shake 1 oz Galliano ½ oz Kahlua ¼ oz triple sec 1 oz cream Mark Torre's The Bartender's Cherry provides a different recipe for the same drink: ITALIAN FASCINATION ⅓ shot Galliano® ⅓ shot Triple Sec ⅔ shot Absolut® /Vodka Fill with Half & Half Shake Sour/Highball Glass

Created by Donato ‘Duke’ Antone