Espresso Martini Recipe for Summer (or anytime!)

RiSE coffee box isn’t just about coffee, we are a coffee lifestyle brand bringing you various ways you can involve coffee into your daily life. Coffee is an integral part to most peoples mornings, but the Espresso Martini now brings the caffeinated goodness into your evening cocktails too!

We have two methods for you, one is a traditional Espresso Martini and the other is a great option provided by Mr. Black Spirits, coffee liqueur.

Invented in the ’80s by a mixologist at the Soho Brasserie, when a customer asked cocktail-inventor Dick Bradsell for a drink that would “wake her up, and f*** her up” (excuse our French!)

He combined vodka, coffee, coffee liqueur, sugar syrup, and ice and shoved it all in a martini glass. We’re glad he did. It’s a staple during summer in the RiSE household!

HOW TO MAKE A PERFECT ESPRESSO MARTINI

Ingredients:

• 50ml of vodka

• 25ml of Kahlua / or Tia Maria

• 50ml of espresso. A shot of triple-strength cafeitiere coffee or filter coffee are good options if you don’t own an espresso machine

• Sugar syrup to taste

• Lots & lots of ice!

Method:

1. Fill half your shaker with ice

2. Depending on how sweet your tooth is, add a shot of sugar syrup into a double shot of espresso.

3. Pour 50ml vodka, 25ml Kahlua and 50ml of coffee over the ice

4. Shake shake shake!!!

5. Pour, and enjoy! If you want to feel like a real bartender, drop a couple of coffee beans onto the crema.

Tools:

• A martini glass

• A cocktail shaker (act like a pro!)

MR. BLACK’S VERSION…FOR THE ULTIMATE ESPRESSO MARTINI 

Ingredients:

• 2 parts (60ml) Mr Black

• 1 part (30ml) Espresso or Coffee

Method:

1. Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice
2. Hard shake
3. Strain into coupette