This spiced Irish coffee is a delicious fall coffee drink. It's warm and comforting and invigorating and exciting at the same time. In this version of the classic cocktail, you whip cream with pumpkin spice and top the Irish coffee with it. The spice adds delicious fall flavors to every sip!
The original Irish coffee recipe:
A traditional Irish coffee is a mix of hot coffee, Irish whiskey and sugar, topped with whipped cream. The cream forms a "lid" that keeps the drink warm and adds creaminess when you drink the cocktail through it.
How to make it a spiced Irish coffee:
For the recipe here you top the cocktail with pumpkin spice-flavored whipped cream. That infuses each sip with delicious fall flavors.
Recipe ingredients and notes:
Please make sure to use very finely powdered pumpkin spice for this recipe. If the spices are ground too coarsely you will end up with tiny pieces of them in your whipped cream.
How to drink Irish coffee:
- Make the topping by adding heavy cream, sugar and spice into a mixing bowl and whipping it to stiff peaks.
- To serve, divide coffee, sugar and whiskey between two cups, then pipe or spoon the pumpkin spice whipped cream on.
- For a great fall treat to go along with this drink I recommend a slice of this chai-spiced rum raisin bundt cake.
Full Recipe
Spiced Irish Coffee
Ingredients:
Equipment:
Method:
- Whip all ingredients to stiff peaks.½ cup heavy cream, 1 ½ teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice*
- Divide all ingredients between two glasses.1 ½ cups freshly brewed hot coffee, 1 tablespoon sugar, 4 tablespoons Irish whiskey
- Pipe the whipped cream onto each drink.
- Sprinkle with pumpkin spice.
Recipe notes:
Nutrition (estimate only):
More delicious fall and Holiday drinks:
- Spiced Eggnog45 Minutes
- Bourbon Milk Punch10 Minutes
- Chai-Spiced White Russian12 Hours 10 Minutes
Alex D says
Awesome recipe Nicole! Is it possible to used a whipped cream dispenser in place of the hand whipping?
Nicole B. says
That's a good question, Alex! I have a whipped cream dispenser (the brand I have is ChefMaster) and I just looked in the manual to see if it said anything about solids. I didn't see ground spices specifically mentioned in there, but my manual says to only use "strained liquid ingredients." So, honestly, I wouldn't take the chance and put ground spices in there since the particles might plug up something or do other damage. But what you could do is infuse the cream with pumpkin spice ingredients (a cinnamon stick, whole cloves, etc.), then strain them out and use the infused cream in the dispenser.