Cocktail drink: White Russian

Ingredients:
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1 oz Light Cream
- 1 oz Kahlua



Directions:
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Description:
A White Russian is a sweet cocktail made from vodka, Kahlúa or other coffee liqueur such as Tia Maria, and milk or cream, in an old-fashioned glass with ice.

Typical portions are one part vodka to one part coffee liqueur with a splash of cream. Keeping the vodka chilled in a freezer (remaining liquid due to the alcohol content) helps keep the drink cold, allowing less ice to be used. Adding an extra shot of vodka can give the drink more kick without deadening the coffee taste, though more liqueur can be added, of course. Since Kahlúa is very syrupy and moderately flavored of Mexican coffee, using alternative coffee liqueurs or a mixture of coffee liqueurs is a good way to customize a White Russian to fit the taste of the drinker, or to create a distinctive White Russian recipe for a particular bar. Using cream instead of milk produces a smoother, richer beverage, somewhat masking the bite of poor quality alcohol, though the drink is still smoother with well distilled vodka. The cream can also be shaken alone with ice until it begins to thicken, then poured over coffee liqueur, vodka, and ice in order to make the drink richer.

The drink is usually mixed by first pouring vodka into the ice-filled glass, then coffee liqueur, then cream. It can then be served immediately with a straw included for the drinker to mix it. It can also be lightly shaken in a cocktail shaker (one or two shakes is enough) or stirred in its own glass by the bartender. Home drinkers sometimes tap the ice with their fingers to mix the drink.

The drink is not traditionally Russian, but is so named due to vodka being a key ingredient. The "White Russians" were a anti-Bolshevik group from the Russian Civil War.