Creamy Cocktails

30 recipes, including Wine Sour, White Russian, New York Sour.

30 Creamy cocktails, with ingredients and how to make them.

  • Wine Sour — A technical drink that showcases the body of the wine, with a velvety texture.
  • White Russian — Split-vodka technique with a deliberately half-mixed look.
  • New York Sour — A whiskey sour with egg white and a floating layer of dry red wine.
  • Aperol Sour — An Aperol sour with egg white and drops of bitters on the foam.
  • Gin Mint Sour — A gin sour with muddled mint, egg white, and a double strain.
  • Coffee & Dulce de Leche (Dom Cabra) — A creamy drink of coffee liqueur and dulce de leche liqueur.
  • Pé de Moleque Sour — A whiskey sour with pé de moleque (Brazilian peanut brittle) syrup and salt, aerated in two stages for foam without egg white.
  • Vodka Banoffe Bliss — A creamy take on banoffee pie, with caramel vodka, banana liqueur, and vanilla.
  • Caramel Espresso Martini — A modern Espresso Martini riff that balances bitter coffee with sweet caramel.
  • Revólver — A short, intense cocktail pairing whisky and coffee liqueur, with a dense foam and navel orange aromatics.
  • Campari Sour — A full-bodied Campari sour with a dry shake, egg white, and drops of Angostura on the foam.
  • Campari & Beer — Campari, lime, and beer, finished with a beer foam whipped with a blender.
  • Cabra Moca — Equal parts coffee liqueur and chocolate liqueur, shaken to bring their densities together.
  • Raspberry Jam Sour — A gin sour with raspberry jam and egg white: the jam sweetens and adds body, the egg white brings the foam.
  • Negroni Sour — The equal-parts Italian classic, shaken with lime, syrup, and egg white.
  • Jabuti — A jabuticaba liqueur sour with lime, orange juice, and egg white — the native Brazilian fruit becomes the base.
  • Espresso Martini — Dick Bradsell's classic: vodka, coffee liqueur, and espresso shaken until crowned with foam.
  • Porn Star Martini — Homemade take with caramel vodka, passion fruit pulp, and egg white, served with a shot of sparkling wine on the side.
  • Piña Colada — Puerto Rican blender classic: white rum, cream of coconut, and ripe pineapple.
  • Whiskey Sour — Classic sour of bourbon, lemon, and syrup — egg white is optional, for foam.
  • Amaretto Sour — Modern sour of almond liqueur and bourbon, dry shaken with egg white for foam.
  • Irish Coffee — Hot classic of Irish whiskey, brewed coffee, and cream floating on top.
  • Port Light — Bourbon tiki drink with lemon, honey syrup, passion fruit, and egg white, over crushed ice.
  • Toblerone — Creamy cocktail of coffee, hazelnut, and Irish cream — a liquid dessert inspired by the Swiss chocolate.
  • Grasshopper — IBA dessert classic: white crème de cacao, green crème de menthe, and cream, shaken and served up.
  • Better Than Sex — Shaken dessert of amaretto, cacao, Irish cream, and coffee liqueur, lengthened with milk in a rocks glass.
  • Amaretto Limoncello Sour — Bourbon sour with amaretto and limoncello, egg white for foam and bitters on top.
  • Coffee with Whisky — White Russian shaken with bourbon in place of vodka, coffee liqueur, and cream.
  • Ouro de Tolo — Cynar sour with honey syrup, lime, and basil, egg white for foam in a rocks glass.
  • Velvet Pear Sour — Pear-infused gin sour with lemon and egg white, dry-shaken and double-strained into a coupe.

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