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Coffee With a Kick: Alcoholic Coffee Recipes

In a previous article, we gave you some summertime recipes for iced coffee. That was neat and all, but you want something with a little more bite. Here are a few alcoholic recipes collected from around the Web to help you take off the edge.

Cafe Seattle

·      Hot Coffee

·      3/4 shot Bailey's Irish Cream

·      3/4 shot Absolut Vodka

·      1 oz Hershey’s Chocolate syrup Coffee

·      Whipped cream (Should you so desire)

Put Irish Cream, vodka, and chocolate syrup into a coffee mug. Add coffee to fill, top with whipped cream.

Irish Coffee

·      Hot Coffee

·      1.5 oz Irish Whiskey

·      1 tsp brown sugar

·      Heavy cream

Combine whiskey and sugar in a large mug (preferably an Irish coffee cup, but who has one of those?). Top off with hot coffee and stir to dissolve sugar. Top off with heavy cream.

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Irish Coffee Variation

·      Hot Coffee

·      2 oz Bailey's Irish Cream

·      2 oz half-and-half

·      1 tsp sugar

Mix coffee and Irish Cream and half & half. Add sugar and stir. Serve hot, (again, in an Irish coffee cup, if you have one).

Hot Dick

·      Espresso

·      2 oz Bailey's Irish Cream

·      2 oz Grand Marnier

·      4 oz hot Espresso

·      Whipped Cream

Pour Bailey's and Grand Marnier into mug, and then add espresso (hot off the machine). Top with whipped cream.

Jamaican Coffee

·      1/6 glass Rum

·      1/6 glass Coffee (Strong)

·      1/2 glass cold Water

·      Whipped cream

Stir the rum, coffee, and water together and top with the whipped cream. Sprinkle with a pinch of well ground coffee.

Tennessee Mud

·      8 oz Coffee

·      4 oz Jack Daniels

·      4 oz Amaretto

·      Whipped cream

Mix Coffee, Jack Daniels, and Amaretto. Top with whipped cream.

Joyful Bull

·      Coffee

·      1 shot Tequila

·      1 shot Kahlua

·      1 splash Tia Maria coffee liqueur

·      Whipped cream

Fill mug 2/3 full with coffee. Add Tequila, Kahlua and Tia Maria. Stir. You may stir in Half 'n Half instead of topping with whipped cream. Garnish with cherry or mint.

Cafe Savoy

·      Coffee

·      Milk (optional)

·      1/2 oz Triple sec liqueur

·      1/2 oz Brandy

Fill mug almost to top with coffee. Stir in milk, triple sec, and brandy.

An Irish Kiss

·      Hot Coffee

·      3/4 oz Bailey's Irish Cream

·      3/4 oz Coffee liqueur (Kahlua)

·      Whipped cream

Pour Baileys and Kahlua into Irish coffee glass, fill glass with hot coffee, and top with whipped cream.

Portland Coffee

·      1/2 Cup of Coffee

·      1 shot Bacardi 151 proof rum

·      1 shot Kahlua

·      2 splashes Triple sec

·      3 dashes Cinnamon

·      3 dashes Nutmeg

·      1/4 cup Sugar

·      Whipped cream

Put sugar in a plate. Put 1 splash of Triple Sec in a bowl. First, dip the rim of coffee cup in the bowl of Triple Sec, then in sugar. Add 1 shot each of Rum and Kahlua, & 1 splash of Triple Sec. Light with a match (this crystallizes the sugar on rim). Add cinnamon and nutmeg. Add coffee (this should put the fire out) until cup is 3/4 full. Top with whipped cream.

There are so many recipes on the Web that we had to limit how many recipes we included. So, be on the lookout for a Part 2! Alternatively, if you have a favorite recipe, feel free to post it in the comments section.

, Glendale Coffee Examiner

Xavier Frost is a coffee connoisseur, originally from Southern California and now residing in Litchfield Park. Whether Xavier has a cup of trendy corporate coffee, hole-in-the-wall coffee house coffee, or his own unique brews, it's rare to catch him without it! Contact Xavier.

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