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Hold on to your diets everyone, today is National Fudge Day! Fudge as we know it today, may have evolved out of the Scottish confection called “tablet, but prior to its mention in an 1886 letter from Vassar college (apparently it was being sold in a Baltimore grocery store for 40 cents a pound), little is known about the exact origins. By 1888, melyn Battersby Hartridge at Vassar obtained the recipe from her roommate’s Baltimorean cousin and proceeded to make thirty pounds of it for a fund raiser. It was such a hit that the recipe was soon being passed around all the women’s colleges.
Fudge Slide
recipe adapted from drinksmixer.com
- 1 oz chocolate vodka
- 1 oz coffee liqueur
- 1 oz Irish cream
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: None
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Double Fudge Martini
recipe adapted from 1001cocktails.com
- 1 1/2 oz vodka
- 1/2 oz coffee liqueur
- 1/2 tsp espresso ground coffee
- 1 1/2 oz chocolate syrup
- 1/3 oz butterscotch schnapps
- 1 1/2 – 2 oz cream
Glass: Cocktail
Garnish: 1 tsp grated chocolate
Shake the vodka, coffee liqueur, espresso coffee and chocolate syrup with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. In a fresh shaker, shake cream and butterscotch schnapps until thickened and float on top of the chocolate mix. Garnish with grated chocolate, and serve.
