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    Home » cooking » baking » Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake {recipe} - It's OK to Have Bailey's for Breakfast

    March 2012 baking

    Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake {recipe} - It's OK to Have Bailey's for Breakfast

    Baileys Irish Cream and Coffee Swirled Cheesecake
    I’ve said many times before how much of a baker I am not, but for some reason, I found myself on a wild baking spree while spending a few days at my parents’ house. Cookies continue to challenge my self-confidence in the kitchen, but cheesecakes are a little easier. Measurements are very forgiving in a cheesecake batter, so the only real complexity lies in the actual baking. You shouldn’t overbake, which poses no problem because I have this, shall I say, “habit” of obsessively cracking open the oven door and peeking. It doesn’t matter if the oven has a front window and interior lights.

    bailey's irish cream

    I baked a Bailey’s Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake, intending first to make a cheesecake simply flavored with Irish Cream, but coffee entered the equation when Mom demanded, “Add coffee!” Is the woman brilliant or what? I had to obey. The cheesecake came out with ugly, pock-marked and scarred sides, but it was pretty on top. The darker coffee in sweeping swirls with the lighter Irish Cream was like a softer, warmer, lighter yin yang that’s been stretched and draped over the chaise lounge in front of the fireplace. Mom and I impatienty cut a tiny sliver out of the cake before it was chilled and set, and durned it, Mom was right about adding that coffee.

    My Mom is the indirect subject of a lot of my musings here on The Delicious Life, but I can't help bringing her up. She is a badass golfer, she is responsible for a lot of who and what I am, and when it comes right down to it, she leads a hell of a lot more exciting life than I do.

    Her awesomeness is enough to give me a complex, but it doesn't because that’s how awesome she is. Besides, if I told my Mom I needed therapy, she'd kick my ass. In a loving way, of course.

    What makes my Mom awesome (besides golf and beer) is something I can’t just label with a single word or even phrase. It’s just the way she is, what she says, and how she makes me feel, that are all just so her. Awesome.

    Ok, this is why Mom is awesome.

    We had dinner guests. For dessert, we served the cheesecake, minus the little sliver we had taste-tested. I was nervous at first, but they absolutely loved it. (Yes, of course I know they were being polite, but I can pretend, okay?) When the time came for them to leave, Mom disappeared into the kitchen, and in true Korean ah-joo-mah form, she wrapped up the rest of the cheesecake for them to take home. I was flattered that they liked it, I was flattered that my Mom thought it was decent enough to give to her guests, but I was a little disappointed that she gave it all away. I’ve bemoaned the diet-threatening dearth of people to eat the things I bake, and here I was on the other end, bemoaning all the same. Oh, well, when it rains it pours, and when it’s cheesecake, it’s gone.

    bailey's irish cream cheesecake slice

    The next morning , I walked into the kitchen and found my Mom sitting on a stool bent over the counter.

    “Mom! What are you eating?!?!”

    My Mom was eating a huge swirly piece of the Bailey’s Irish Cream Cheesecake!

    “I didn’t give them all of it, Sarah. Am I crazy? I love eye-lish cleem.” She was laughing. That meant she liked it, and I felt good.

    Waitjustonesecondhere.

    “Mom! It’s not even eight o’clock in the morning and you’re eating a piece of cheesecake!”

    “Sarah," she said in her most I'm-the-mother-you'e-the-daughter voice, "It has coffee in it.”

    I don’t know why that made perfect sense to me, and why the fact that it was cheesecake in the morning raised an eyebrow but Irish Cream in the morning did not.

    Isn’t my Mom awesome?
    bailey's irish cream and coffee chaeesecake

    Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake Recipe

    Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake Ingredients:

    1½ c. graham cracker crumbs
    6 T. melted butter
    ¼ c. granulated sugar
    4 8 oz. packages cream cheese
    1 c. granulated sugar
    1 t. vanilla
    4 eggs
    1 T. instant coffee dissolved in 1 T. hot water
    ¼ - ½ c. Bailey’s Irish Cream

    Bailey's Irish Cream and Coffee Cheesecake Directions:

    Preheat oven to 350.

    Stir together 1½ c. graham cracker crumbs, 6 T. melted butter, and ¼ c. granulated sugar.

    Press crumbs onto bottom of springform pan (I used 10”, but if you use a smaller one, your crust and cheesecake will just behigher) Bake for 8-10 minutes until toasted golden brown. Remove, and let cool while preparing filling.

    Beat 4 8 oz. packages cream cheese that have been softened to room temperature with 1 c. granulated sugar until smooth and creamy. Add 1 t. vanilla and beat in 4 eggs, one at a time.

    Pour half the cheesecake filling into a separate bowl. To half of the batter, add 1 T. instant coffee dissolved in 1 T. hot water. To the other half of the batter, add ¼ - ½ c. Bailey’s Irish Cream, depending on how strongly Irish Creamy you want it.

    Pour half of the Irish Cream filling into the crust. Very slowly, pour half of the coffee filling over the coffee filling. Repeat with the remaining halves of the Irish Cream and coffee fillings.

    Gently run a spoon from the bottom of the filling to top without touching the crust to create a swirl.

    Bake in preheated oven for 35-45 minutes, until center is barely set.

    Remove from oven, run a knife around the edge to loosen it from the sides of the springform pan, and let cool completely in the pan.

    Resources Around the Web for Irish Cream Cheesecakes:
    ~ a whole list of Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecakes on Cooks.com
    ~ on Allrecipes.com, an Irish Cream Cheesecake with Chocolate
    ~ another Irish Cream Cheesecake with chocolate, from a famous brand in baking
    ~ About.com uses gelatin for texture in their Irish Cream Cheesecake

    ** this post originally published December 2005 **

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    1. Dave Jones says

      March 26, 2009 at 5:22 pm

      That cake sounds delicious.

      Reply
    2. yoigiwan says

      April 01, 2009 at 12:56 am

      Fantastic pictures. Do you take these yourself?

      yogiwan
      http://YourSmartKitchen.com

      Reply
    3. MsGourmet says

      April 03, 2009 at 9:09 am

      Your mama's a smart women ;)

      Reply
    4. Rebekka says

      April 03, 2009 at 12:54 pm

      That looks INSANE!!!

      Reply
    5. Peter M says

      April 09, 2009 at 11:15 am

      This is evil, therefore I like it! I'm going to enjoy dropping by here.

      Reply
    6. Laff says

      April 09, 2009 at 9:13 pm

      That's the first time I've ever seen the words, "cheescake", "self-confidence" and "forgiving" used in the same paragraph.

      I think I love you.

      Reply
    7. Laff says

      April 09, 2009 at 9:13 pm

      That's the first time I've ever seen the words, "cheescake", "self-confidence" and "forgiving" used in the same paragraph.

      I think I love you.

      Reply
    8. Jen says

      April 12, 2009 at 4:37 am

      More blogposts please! I adore this blog.

      Reply
    9. worldwide1 says

      April 16, 2009 at 10:24 pm

      such an interesting,informative blog.

      Reply
    10. worldwide1 says

      April 16, 2009 at 10:24 pm

      such an interesting,informative blog.

      Reply
    11. Merry says

      April 17, 2009 at 6:32 am

      Your mom is super cool. I hope my kids sound like you when they are old enough to choose whether to like me or not :-)

      Reply
    12. Mindy Walz says

      April 17, 2009 at 9:45 am

      Thanks for the article, well written and it worked out perfect. Hey if you write and post a lot of articles you should look at putting them on Wacanai.com(http://www.wacanai.com/intro). They have a huge database of articles and you can search by a bunch of different topics, plus they will recommend other similar articles to you. I know that you can link your site to it too. Thanks, peace.

      Reply
    13. Jude says

      April 25, 2009 at 7:01 pm

      eyelish cleam? had no idea korean pronunciation is the polar opposite of japanese.

      Reply
    14. Pearl says

      May 06, 2009 at 12:48 pm

      when i bake cakes, i get nervous when people try to open the oven door and peek. "NOOOO!" i howl, "YOU MUSTN'T DO THAT!"

      and then when they walk off, apologetic, and i'm left standing there, embarrassed, i open the oven door to take a peek.

      Reply
    15. Diana Hossfeld says

      March 11, 2012 at 7:18 pm

      I LOVE this post. My mom justifies eating chocolate chip cookies in the morning because they have oatmeal in them. I grew up thinking it was completely normal to have cookies for breakfast! 

      Reply
    16. Jean says

      March 20, 2012 at 8:11 am

      Oh, my gosh, yes she is! I feel exactly the same way about my mom and she would have happily eaten the cheesecake at 8 am, too.  

      Cookies and I don't get on well in the kitchen but cheesecake was one of the first sweets I learned to bake.  Yours looks perfect. 

      Reply
    17. Naomi says

      April 08, 2012 at 7:42 am

      This looks amazing! I'd love to try making it with an Oreo crumb crust!

      Reply
    18. Rhonda says

      April 15, 2012 at 8:18 pm

      I made this for Easter and it was SO good. My mom had bought a Bailey's cheesecake but it didn't have a lot of Bailey's flavor so I decided to make one.  I did not separate the Bailey's from the coffee - the whole cheesecake had both. I used 1/2 cup of Bailey's and it had plenty of flavor.  This is a wonderful and easy recipe.

      Reply
    19. ilychan says

      June 24, 2012 at 11:35 pm

      This sounds AMAZING! I must try it!!!

      Reply
    20. Design a cake online says

      September 15, 2012 at 10:11 am

      Wow, i love Cheese cakes, and i love irish cream - this is so going to be my next baking project! Thanks for the recipe :)

      Reply
    21. Dia Diamond says

      December 30, 2014 at 11:26 am

      This looks delicious! I'm definitely making this for our NYE party tomorrow! Thanks for the recipe I will let you know how it tuns out!

      Reply
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