Café Liégeois
Also café viennois (dessert)
A French dessert of cold sweetened coffee, coffee ice cream and whipped cream in a tall glass. More sundae than beverage.
ColdServed coldFrom France
- Volume
- 240ml8.1 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 40mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.4
The build
Watch it made, step by step- lightly sweetened cold…100 ml42%
- Coffee ice cream100 ml42%
- Cream40 ml17%
- Volume
- 240ml
- Caffeine
- 40mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
A dessert glass of cold coffee, coffee ice cream and Chantilly cream, eaten with a spoon.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 240 ml café liégeois
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 100 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
2| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| affogato | Italy | Hot espresso over gelato. |
| Eiskaffee | Germany | Cold coffee with vanilla ice cream. |
History
Popular accountWikidata records France as country of origin and classes it as a dessert. The renaming from café viennois in 1914 is a popular account.
French dessert drink, renamed from 'café viennois' during the First World War after the defence of Liège.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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