Twix Shot
Butterscotch schnapps, chocolate, and Irish cream — recreating the Twix bar (UK Raider 1967, renamed for the US in 1979), the late 1990s candy bar shooter genre.
- ½ ozbutterscotch schnapps
- ½ ozirish cream liqueur
- ½ ozcoffee liqueur
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The Twix Shot belongs to the candy bar-inspired shooter genre that swept American bar culture in the late 1990s. The Twix chocolate bar — created by Mars and first sold in the UK in 1967 as the Raider before being renamed Twix for the American market in 1979 — is defined by its combination of biscuit, caramel, and milk chocolate layers. Bartenders during the late 1990s and early 2000s embraced the challenge of recreating these layered confections using the growing range of flavored schnapps and liqueurs available commercially. Butterscotch schnapps approximated the caramel layer, chocolate or coffee liqueur provided the chocolate element, and Irish cream liqueur added the dairy richness needed to mimic the biscuit and cream foundation. The result was a sweet, layered shooter that appealed to patrons who appreciated both the candy bar's flavors and the theatrical presentation of a perfectly stratified shot.
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