Irish Coffee

For a holiday that has come to involve so much alcohol, St. Patrick’s Day is badly in need of a good drink. Beer, even tinted green, is too workaday. Stout is too stolid. Sweet liqueurs like Irish Mist and Baileys Irish Cream are just too everything.

But Irish coffee — there’s something worth a toast: the boggy funk of whiskey rising through an equatorial brew to meet a cool cloud of whipped cream.

Ingredients

• ½ cup heavy cream, cold
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Vanilla extract, if desired
• 1 ½ ounces Irish whiskey
• 6 ounces hot, fresh coffee.

• Nutritional Information

  • Nutritional analysis per serving (1 serving)

    546 calories; 44 grams fat; 27 grams saturated fat; 12 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 8 grams carbohydrates; 8 grams sugars; 2 grams protein; 163 milligrams cholesterol; 49 milligrams sodium

  Note: Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients. Amount is based on available data.
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1 drink

Preparation

1. Whip the heavy cream. Add 1/2 teaspoon sugar and a dash of vanilla, if desired, just before the cream starts to form soft peaks. Whip until firm.
2. Pour the remaining 1/2 teaspoon sugar into a tall ceramic cup.
3. Add the whiskey, then pour in the coffee to about an inch below the brim.
4. Apply a generous dollop of whipped cream to the top.

• Adapted from James F. Farrell

10 minutes