Cream liqueur explained

A cream liqueur is a liqueur that includes dairy cream and a generally flavourful liquor among its ingredients.^[1]

Notable cream liqueurs include:

• Amarula, which uses distillate of fermented South African marula fruits

• Irish cream, which uses Irish whiskey^[2]

• Cruzan Rum, with rum and other ingredients
• Dooley's, which uses toffee and vodka
• Heather Cream, uses Scotch whisky
• Voodoo Cream Liqueur, an Indian cream liqueur with whisky
• RumChata, a mixture of rum and horchata

How to consume cream liqueur

Cream liqueur is consumable with adding or without adding ice or any mixers. It is consumable as on the rocks, or as a cocktail ingredient as well.

The US cocktail Irish Car Bomb was invented in the 1970s as a way of serving Baileys Irish Cream.^[3]

See also

• List of liqueurs
• Nightcap (drink)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cream liqueur recipes . 2023-08-25 . BBC Food . en.
2. Web site: In 1973, I invented a ‘girly drink’ called Baileys . 2023-08-25 . The Irish Times . en.
3. Web site: Séaghdha . Darach Ó . 2019-11-10 . The Irish For: Notes on the naming of a still-contentious Irish-themed cocktail . 2023-08-25 . TheJournal.ie . en.