Irish Cream Coffee
Also Baileys coffee
Hot coffee made sweet and creamy with Irish cream liqueur, a simpler cousin of Irish coffee.
With spiritsServed hot
- Volume
- 210ml7.1 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 60mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.1
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Hot coffee150 ml71%
- Spirit40 ml19%
- Cream20 ml10%
- Volume
- 210ml
- Caffeine
- 60mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Hot coffee with a measure of Irish cream liqueur, sometimes topped with whipped cream; no sugar needed.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 210 ml irish cream coffee
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 150 ml.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-29
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
1| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| Irish coffee | Ireland | Whiskey and sugar under floated cream instead. |
History
Popular accountNo allowed-source record; recorded here as a popular account.
Named for Irish cream liqueur; origin undocumented.
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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