Irish Cream



Who knew you could make Irish Cream?  It's a cream liqueur that we all have added to our coffee or sipped in front of a crackling fire.  I have forever been a fan and when I started running across recipes that seemed relatively simple...

it was on. 

I found several interesting ones and after getting home this evening began searching out the ingredients.  Not in one recipe...did I have every item.  You have done this and I have many times before: substituted this and that, so if you are shy of something... get creative and the result will be delicious!

Irish Cream

1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

1 1/4 c strong coffee (We used Camellia Coffee

3/4 c high proof whiskey (I used 128.5 proof, the guide recipes called for 2 cups Irish Whiskey)

1 c half and half (I used fat free)

1 c heavy cream

1 t vanilla extract

1/2 t almond extract

Pour all ingredients into a bowl and mix with a hand mixer until fully combined.  Chill.  Serve and enjoy.  Keep in an enclosed container in the refrigerator.

Here I sit sipping the richest most elegant of concoctions.

Happy St. Patricks Day

~CGJ