Vegan "Baileys" Irish Cream

 We thought it would be fun to add something new this year to our St. Patrick's Day celebrating,.... a little Irish Cream. Hoping to stay within the "clean" eating guidelines we have been trying to live with, we did a little searching in hopes of finding a Vegan "Bailey's" Irish Cream recipe with the right ingredients we would like to try.


Since we have never made Irish Cream before, we had, fresh in our minds, the days gone by memories of the original, and were not sure what the Vegan recipe would leave us with.

After looking at several recipes, we settled on a good looking recipe from Spabettie.com, and just tweaked it a wee bit to fit our style.

Vegan Baileys Irish Cream

Adapted from Spabettie.com

2 cups coconut milk {we used lite}

1/2 cup strong black coffee {we used Pete's freshly ground}

2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 

3/4-1 cup Irish whiskey {optional}

Add cocoa to hot coffee blend until dissolved. Add coffee/cocoa mixture, and all the other ingredients to a blender, blend on high speed for a few seconds. Bottle and store in refrigerator for up to one week.

While this recipe was not bad, next time we would consider:

using regular Coconut milk instead of lite as we would like a thicker mixture.

using chocolate syrup instead of cocoa powder to give more chocolate depth.

add in 1/2 cup coconut creamer for added richness.
use an espresso shot or two.

add some whiskey.

It really is a matter of experimenting and adjusting ingredients for your preferred taste.


Serve on the rocks, in coffee, on ice cream or over pound cake.

We saved a pure maple syrup bottle that we thought would be fun to store our Irish Cream in since it reminded us of an old whiskey bottle.


Of course our bottle needed a label and we love the labels Cathe Holden of Just Something I Made does for Worldlabel Blog. 

     Even the cap gets a little festive touch for the occasion!

We also had another recycled tall bottle we filled and labeled.

Are you up for trying out a bottle of homemade Vegan "Bailey's" Irish Cream this St. Patrick's?! Even the children can partake in this beverage as long as no "alcohol" is in the mix. So raise a glass and make a toast to the Irish! Be inspired, get creative!


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