Donegal Oatmeal Cream
Here’s a dessert based on that hardiest of homegrown Irish grains, the oat. Don’t try this with rolled oats! You need the cracked whole oat grain or groat, sometimes called...
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GIF Irish Coffee Cake: applying the coffee / whiskey syrup
Distributing the syrup evenly to the layers…. Spoon it on slowly and spread it around, as in the image. This will need to be done at least two or three...
Apple Barley Pudding
This recipe harks back to a time when cooks were intent on making the best of what they had on hand, and didn’t have recourse to glossy supermarkets full of...
Irish Coffee Cake
The reputation of the drink chef Joe Sheridan invented one cold and rainy evening in 1943 at the old seaplane base at Foynes, County Clare began to spread far and...
Hot Whiskey Cake
In Ireland, when the cold weather sets in — and it’s usually wet as well — a lot of people, when they turn up at their local pub, really want...
Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee
Irish coffee was invented in 1943 by Joe Sheridan, the chef at the old flying-boat base at Foynes, County Clare, near the present site of Shannon Airport. Sheridan invented this...
About our Irish Coffee recipes
There are lots of arguments and theories about this famous Irish hot drink, but at this point the historical evidence suggests most strongly that Irish coffee was invented in 1943...
Irish Coffee Cupcakes
This recipe is a lot like the one for our Irish Coffee Cake, in which layers of a coffee/chocolate sponge cake are soaked with a coffee and whiskey syrup, then...
Carrigaline Whiskey and Ginger Pie
Though Ireland has a fair number of purists who’d never dream of putting anything but water in whiskey, there are different views on the subject, and alternative additives. One very...
Carrageen Moss Blancmange
This delicate and subtle dessert would once have been thought of as the kind of treat best suited to invalids and people recovering from stomach troubles. But the same lightness...