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Classic White Russian Cocktail

December 28, 2016

An easy recipe for the classic white russian cocktail with just 3 ingredients: vodka, coffee liquer and milk. Perfect to serve at a party!

If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the last week doing some serious festive indulging. Stuffing, roast potatoes, cheeseboards, chocolate and more than one or two Bailey’s! You might be feeling like even a classic white russian can’t tempt you right now.

I felt the same after sitting down to type this whilst in the midst of an extreme sugar coma. We’ve still got hogmanay (or NYE for my non-Scottish friends) to go though, so there’s plenty time left for cocktails!

An easy recipe for the classic white russian cocktail with just 3 ingredients: vodka, coffee liquer and milk. Perfect to serve at a party!

If you’ve ever had a white russian before, you won’t need a recipe to tell you how to make it. It’s one of my favourite cocktails though, so I wanted to share how I like to make it.

White russians are particularly good in winter, I think. They’re also super simple to make, so perfect for serving at a festive party!

An easy recipe for the classic white russian cocktail with just 3 ingredients: vodka, coffee liquer and milk. Perfect to serve at a party!

In all honesty, it’s a bit of a stretch to call this a classic white russian. Traditional recipes usually call for cream, but I find that just a bit too rich. I always go with whole milk which I find is still creamy but a little lighter.

If you’ve seen The Big Lebowski you might even recall that in one scene ‘The Dude’ uses powdered milk. I wouldn’t recommend straying that far from the original though…

An easy recipe for the classic white russian cocktail with just 3 ingredients: vodka, coffee liquer and milk. Perfect to serve at a party!

In researching this I’ve discovered that there doesn’t really seem to be any one classic recipe. Some call for more coffee liquer, others prefer just a splash, and the cream/milk quantities vary from a tablespoon to about half of the total ingredients.

The best thing about a simple cocktail like the white russian is that you can easily adjust it for your preferences. There’s only 3 ingredients so it’s easy to experiment with quantities.

And if it takes you drinking 5 cocktails before you’ve perfected it? Well, that’s a sacrifice I’m sure you’ll be willing to make!

An easy recipe for the classic white russian cocktail with just 3 ingredients: vodka, coffee liquer and milk. Perfect to serve at a party!

This is my last post for 2016, so I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the year and has a fantastic New Year’s Eve, however you’ll be spending it!

Classic White Russian Cocktail

Classic White Russian Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 2 parts vodka
  • 1 part kahlua (or other coffee liquer)
  • 2 parts whole milk

Instructions

  1. Fill an old fashioned (short) glass with ice.
  2. Pour over the vodka and kahlua.
  3. Top with whole milk.
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  1. Sandra says

    December 31, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    I love a white russian! Love your blog. Found it via Scottish Bloggers on Facebook. I’m away to drool over all the recipes.

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    • Kirsty says

      December 31, 2016 at 6:02 pm

      Thanks for all your lovely comments Sandra!

      Reply
  2. Carrie says

    November 14, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    Can you use almond milk?

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    • Kirsty says

      November 14, 2018 at 7:49 pm

      I’ve never tried it with almond milk but it’s definitely worth a try!

      Reply

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