B-52
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Three liqueurs that refuse to mix if you pour them carefully, in bands of brown, cream and amber. It is the shot that impresses whoever watches you make it, and the only trick is density.
Ingredients
- 20 ml coffee liqueur (Kahlúa)
- 20 ml Irish cream (Baileys)
- 20 ml orange liqueur (Grand Marnier or Cointreau)
Preparation
- Pour the coffee liqueur into the shot glass. It goes first because it is the densest, and that is the whole secret: heaviest to lightest.
- Rest the back of a teaspoon just above it, touching the side of the glass, and pour the Irish cream very slowly over it. The spoon spreads the stream so it lands gently and sits on top instead of sinking.
- Repeat with the orange liqueur, the lightest, which ends up on top. Rush it and it mixes: here, going slowly is not advice, it is the technique.
- Serve it straight away. The layers blur on their own within minutes, so it is not something you make in advance.
