
Okay, okay, I may be late on this topic since it is after St. Patrick’s Day, but this is one Irish coffee recipe you’ll want to include in your next family cookbook. For this year’s “wearin’ o’ the green” celebration, I enjoyed a wonderful Irish coffee made from a distant cousin’s recipe (who is a fabulous bartender and cook).
This Irish coffee recipe is easy and can be adjusted to taste. It can also be made with regular or sugar-free coffee flavorings for those who wish to avoid the alcohol, sugar and calories:
Janet’s Irish Up
1 teaspoon brown sugar (or to taste; eliminate if using flavored coffee syrups)
5 ounces piping hot coffee
1½ ounces Irish whiskey
½ ounce Kahlua® coffee liqueur
½ ounce Bailey’s® Irish Cream liqueur
Fresh sweetened whipped cream
Add a teaspoon of brown sugar to the bottom of an Irish coffee glass. Stir in enough hot coffee (approximately one ounce) to dissolve the sugar while stirring. Add the Irish whiskey, and the rest of the hot coffee. Then gently pour the Kahlua on top of the coffee using the back of a spoon, followed by the Bailey’s (same technique).
This is a strong Irish coffee! The Kahlua and Bailey’s will find their own density and layer in the coffee dark to light the longer it sits. Top the Irish coffee with as much whipped cream as you want (canned topping may be used, but this Irish coffee recipe is better with at least a half inch of fresh sweetened whipped cream). If desired, garnish with a pinch of powdered cocoa and a green shamrock swizzle stick.
As the old Guinness commercials used to say, “You drink the black part through the white part.”
Spectacular.
Happy Cookbooking,
Matilda
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