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Spiced Irish Coffee

Updated: Apr 24, 2024 · Published: Jul 10, 2020 by Nicole B. · 2 Comments

5 from 1 vote
Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
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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!

Spiced Irish coffee in a glass with fall leaves.

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.

Coffee, pumpkin spice, Irish whiskey, sugar and heavy 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 in a glass with fall leaves.
Author: The Spice Train

Spiced Irish Coffee

5 from 1 vote
This spiced Irish coffee is topped with pumpkin spice-flavored whipped cream and makes a delicious fall drink.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes mins
Total Time: 10 minutes mins
Servings: 2
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American, Irish
Calories: 211
Ingredients Equipment Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients:
  

For the pumpkin spice whipped cream:
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice*
For the Irish coffee:
  • 1 ½ cups freshly brewed hot coffee
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 4 tablespoons Irish whiskey

Equipment:

  • measuring cups and spoons
  • coffee maker
  • mixing bowl
  • standing mixer or handheld mixer
  • piping bag
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Method:
 

For the pumpkin spice whipped cream:
  1. Whip all ingredients to stiff peaks.
    ½ cup heavy cream, 1 ½ teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice*
For the Irish coffee:
  1. Divide all ingredients between two glasses.
    1 ½ cups freshly brewed hot coffee, 1 tablespoon sugar, 4 tablespoons Irish whiskey
  2. Pipe the whipped cream onto each drink.
  3. Sprinkle with pumpkin spice.

Recipe notes:

*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.
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Nutrition (estimate only):

Calories: 211kcalCarbohydrates: 10.5gProtein: 0.9gFat: 11.3gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 15mgPotassium: 116mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 9.1gCalcium: 29mg

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Comments

  1. Alex D says

    October 13, 2021 at 5:26 pm

    Awesome recipe Nicole! Is it possible to used a whipped cream dispenser in place of the hand whipping?

    Reply
    • Nicole B. says

      October 14, 2021 at 2:12 pm

      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.

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