Mudslide cocktail recipe

This is one seriously delicious dessert-like cocktail. Oozing with flavours of chocolate, coffee and cream, the Mudslide is a favourite among sweet-tooths. Joining other decadent creamy cocktails like the Toblerone and Chocolatini, the Mudslide is the perfect indulgence at home on the couch, or it can be served to dinner guests as a liquid dessert.

When it comes to its history, The Wreck Bar & Grill at Rum Point Club on Grand Cayman Island considers itself the home of the Mudslide, with their website proudly claiming it as their own. As the story goes, a guest approached the bar in the 1970s and asked for a White Russian. The bartender didn’t have any cream, so they suggested Baileys instead, and the Mudslide was born. It is now served all over the world, with many slightly different variations of the recipe floating around, but the base of vodka, coffee liqueur and Irish cream liqueur has always stayed the same.

Because there’s so much going on in this cocktail, the taste of the vodka is mostly obscured. This means there’s no need to reach for the top shelf; using an inexpensive vodka in your Mudslide is fine, so be sure to save the good stuff for your next Martini. You could also try different vodka variations, like vanilla or raspberry vodka to impart more flavour and sweetness.

Not a coffee person? While there are only very small amounts of caffeine in coffee liqueur, if you don’t want to take the risk of it messing with your sleep, or simply don’t like the taste of coffee, you could try a hazelnut liqueur instead, which always pairs well with chocolate. Liquid Ferrero Rocher cocktail, anyone?! Try adding ice-cream instead of double cream if you'd like a frozen, slushy-like cocktail that's even more decadent than the original – just be sure to let your blender run for longer to ensure all the ingredients are fully mixed.