A dessert in a glass: vodka braced by coffee liqueur, Irish cream and a generous pour of heavy cream, shaken to a smooth mocha chill and poured over ice. It drinks like a Black Russian grown into a milkshake — the vodka a quiet backbone beneath roasted coffee and sweet, velvety cream, with an optional dusting of grated chocolate on top.
Garnish: Grated Chocolate
Shaken · Rocks · On the Rocks
add
Combine vodka, coffee liqueur, Irish cream, and heavy cream in a shaker.
shake
Add ice and shake until well-chilled.
strain
Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
garnish
Top with shaved chocolate.
The Mudslide is traced to the Wreck Bar at the Rum Point Club on Grand Cayman in the 1970s, where a bartender setting out to make a White Russian found no cream to be had and poured Baileys in its place. Who stood behind the bar is unsettled — some tellings leave the bartender anonymous, others remember a man called "Old Judd" — so the credit rests with the venue rather than a person. The drink took its name from the muddy shorelines of the island. It is often blended with ice cream into a frozen drink, while the shaken-and-strained build is treated as its classic form.