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Bread and Butter Pudding with Rich Whiskey Sauce

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  • cream
  • fruit
  • whiskey
The climate in Ireland makes you want comfort food every now and then, and this dessert is one of the best kinds. A century or so ago, bread and milk...

IrishDessertLady

January 17, 2018
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Rich Guinness Cake

Cooking Time: 3 hours
  • alcohol
  • cake
  • Guinness
This recipe is adapted from one in Clare Connery’s In an Irish Country Kitchen, and is light (as Irish fruitcakes go) and well balanced in terms of flavor — the...

IrishDessertLady

January 8, 2018
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Baileys Marbled Cheesecake

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  • cake
  • coffee
  • cream
  • Irish ingredients
    The “base” recipe for this rich and luscious cheesecake is derived from the famous cheesecake native to the venerable New York restaurant Lindy’s.  (More about that cheesecake’s history here.) In...

    IrishDessertLady

    November 28, 2017
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    Dean Swift’s Burnt Oranges

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    • fruit
    • historic
      Jonathan Swift once wrote a slogan for a lady orange-seller to shout in the street as advertising — a “cry”, they called it then. It went like this: Come buy...

      IrishDessertLady

      November 27, 2017
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      Irish Coffee Cake

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      • coffee
      • whiskey
        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...

        IrishDessertLady

        November 26, 2017
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        Hot Whiskey Cake

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        • whiskey
          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...

          IrishDessertLady

          November 26, 2017
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          Joe Sheridan’s Original Irish Coffee

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            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...

            IrishDessertLady

            November 25, 2017
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            About our Irish Coffee recipes

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            • cream
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            • Irish ingredients
            • whiskey
            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...

            IrishDessertLady

            November 25, 2017
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            Irish Coffee Cupcakes

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            • cupcake
            • whiskey
              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...

              IrishDessertLady

              November 25, 2017
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              Carrigaline Whiskey and Ginger Pie

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              • pastry
              • pie
              • potatoes
              • whiskey
                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...

                IrishDessertLady

                October 26, 2017
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                Porter Cake

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                • fruit
                • Guinness
                • historic
                • Spices
                  Somewhere along the line in the 1800’s, it occurred to somebody in Ireland that the dark beer called porter would make a good addition to the robust dark flavor of...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  June 6, 2017
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                  Nothing to do with your luggage

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                  Porter was (and is) a style of dark beer which began to be brewed in England and Ireland in the mid-1700’s. It seems to have been an improvement on the...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  June 6, 2017
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                  Creamy Baileys Mousse Pie

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                  When you go looking for Baileys pies (or pudding pies, or mousse pies) on the Web, you’ll find lots of them, but from the Irish point of view there’s a...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  June 5, 2017
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                  Cranachan

                  Cooking Time: 30 mins
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                  • Chilled & frozen
                  • cream
                  • fruit
                  • historic
                  • whiskey
                  Almost all Celtic countries have a dessert that’s a variation on this theme: cream, oatmeal, honey, fruit, sometimes nuts, and the local firewater — in this case, Irish whiskey. Try...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  June 2, 2017
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                  Chocolate Orange Guinness Cake

                  Cooking Time: 2 h 40 m
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                  • cake
                  • chocolate
                  • citrus
                  • fruit
                  • Guinness
                  • Irish ingredients
                  Balancing the basic dark bitterness of Guinness with a dessert’s sweet ingredients is always a little tricky. But the orange in this recipe makes it easy, since oranges are great...

                  IrishDessertLady

                  May 22, 2017
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