This Authentic Irish Coffee recipe is made with just 4 ingredients – Irish whisky, espresso, brown sugar, and heavy whipping cream. A recipe straight from Galway!
1. Pour hot water into a glass and add a metal teaspoon. This heats the glass and spoon. Let sit for a minute and then remove the spoon and toss the water out.
5. Meanwhile use a shaker with ice and shake vigorously. Or my preferred method is to add cold whipping cream to a bowl and then sit that bowl inside a larger soup bowl and add ice to surround it. This chills the cream inside the bowl further. Use a hand mixer or whisk to beat the cream until it is frothy and thickened only enough to coat the back of a spoon without it slipping off. You don't want it to be fully whipped into whipped cream with peaks. That is too much. Just a light thick froth.
6. Pour the frothed cream over the back of a spoon onto the top of the coffee to float a thick layer. Serve hot plain or with a sprinkle of cinnamon or cocoa.