Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies.
What better way to celebrate my Irish heritage than with a little chocolate and irish cream?
In cookie form of course.
With a beverage on the side.
At least it’s not green beer.
Bad memories.
I shiver at the thought.
This is one of the only ways I will ever drink coffee.
Oh. I’ll drink it like this too. Off of a soggy cookie.
These cookies are a perfect treat for St. Patrick’s Day and are so soft, chocolaty and delicious. You could try other flavors of Bailey’s too. You can add more chocolate chips or even add a touch of mint. You can dip each cookie in straight Bailey’s on the rocks.
I highly suggest baking them today, in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day. Lots of taste testing is required and you’ll have to do your fair share of quality control. Life is tough.
Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 2/3 cups flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
- 8 tablespoons Bailey’s Irish Cream liquer
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Cream butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Add in Bailey’s one tablespoon at a time. Add flour, cocoa powder, instant coffee, baking soda and salt and mix until combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips. Refrigerate dough for 4-6 hours.
- Roll into balls and set on baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.
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Of course you definitely don’t need any special holiday to bake these cookies. No Irish-ness required.
162 Comments on “Double Fudge Irish Cream Cookies.”
I love cookies & coffee so it is a win win with these gorgeous cookies. Yes?? xo
Heaven help me… those look fantastic!
Do you recommend any special flour, or is all purpose ok?
Yep – all purpose!
You had me at Bailey’s! These look to die for!
Yum, these look so good! I haven’t had Bailey’s for a long time, I’m sure there was a reason, but I can’t remember so I will have to try it again :)
Yes, it’s definitely time to try again. :)
Ah, green beer. I surprisingly didn’t find any this weekend. Usually it’s everywhere you turn around St Pat’s in Chicago! Ah well. Hang on- they have different flavors of Bailey’s? How did I not know that?
I don’t know if I’d like any of them… I think there is a caramel and mint? I love the original.
Wow they look extremely fudgy! and chewy..I have a question Jess, what kind of lens do you use for the cam? Have a glorious day <3
Thanks Ellie! :) I use a 35mm f/1.8.
If it contains Bailey’s, it must be a winner!
I’ve given up coffee for Lent. But surely hidden coffee in cookies doesn’t count… And then I’ll HAVE to dip them in Guinness!
These are amazing and I don’t know what could be better for the holiday. This is my first visit to your blog so I’ve spent some time browsing through your earlier entries. I’m so glad I did. I really like the food and recipes you feature here. I’ll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
LOVE Baileys. LOVE it….
That being said…are these cookies crunchy or soft? I’m guessing crunchy?
Soft!
I’m not much of a crunchy cookie fan. :)
I think (I HOPE!) Green beer and I have parted ways since college. It was never very good to me ;)
These look fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dough is currently chilling in my fridge! I used mint chocolate Bailey’s because it’s all I had. And now my Bailey’s bottle is empty…what does that say about me?!
P.s. you make being jobless with a boyfriend in Africa a little more fun :) I bake everyday!
Let me know if you like them!!
I liked them so much that I ate three of them, one from each batch. Now I can’t wait to bring them out to friends tomorrow! lol I hope to one day get to a place where I don’t need to eat everything I bake…but I think that’s a long ways away.
I love how dark those cookies are!!! They look so awesome!
Is it bad that I want to nix the whole “giving up chocolate for Lent thing” just because of these?
Not at all!
Now this is my husband’s kind of cookie! Bet he would love these. Thanks for sharing, Jessica!
I’m a ridiculous pansy when it comes to liquers and spirits, so the idea of baking with Bailey’s sounds brilliant! All the taste, none of the burny burny alcohol throat!
I have some Baileys in my fridge to make this! That is if I don’t drink it all first….
I love anything with Irish cream! These just look simply and utterly delicious!
Awesome, I have a whole bottle in my fridge (I at first typed “in my purse”- geez, I should not admit that, haha).
1. Your blog ALWAYS makes me hungry!
2. Your recipes all look fabulous!
3. Aside from Reasons 1 & 2, I think I read your blog because it makes me feel slightly less guilty about the number of grocery trips I make per week : )
This is definitely my kind of cookie! I love Bailey’s in my coffee too :)
I love Bailey’s so much that 6 years ago, I named my cat after a bottle of it I had in my kitchen. I’m pretty sure I should make these for “him” for St. Patty’s Day. =D
I love you for posting this. This reminds me of my latest creation…. inspired by a monumental blackout. It’s an Irish Car Bomb…. in cake form. There are a lot of Irish Car Bomb inspired cakes out there…. but mine is the real deal. It features an Irish whiskey glaze (Bushmills 1608), Bailey’s ganache, and the stout I used in the cake is Milk Stout (Left Hand Brewing Co.)…. the combination is unparalleled! I had to do an awful lot of drinking and baking to figure out which stout and whiskey work well together! The amount of butter, heavy whipping cream, and Lindt baking bars I incorporated into this recipe would make you proud. Next time I am candying bacon and sprinkling it on top.
I’m not kidding.
I need to stop stalking your blog and make a food blog already…..
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I didn’t have Bailey’s original so I used Bailey’s Chocolate Mint…only had 1/2 of the required cocoa so I melted Bakers 3 chocolate squares. I am shocked that there was even any cookie dough left to cook..lolol. Yummy, yummy, yummy!
Can you really taste the irish cream flavor?
Yes! There is nearly a half cup of Bailey’s in the dough.
I really shouldn’t be reading this right before lunch! I feel like I could eat about a dozen of those cookies… They look amazing!
This is definitely an anytime recipe…not just St. Pat’s. A love of Irish Cream is all that is required!
Why do you torture me? You’re ALWAYS torturing me. Of course, I keep coming back, so I guess it’s my fault. These look amazing – and are an excellent excuse to buy some Baileys.
Thank you for sharing so many delicious ideas. It’s your fault that I have root beer in the ‘fridge and an empty ice cream container in the recycling bin. I forgot how good root beer floats are. Darn you!!!!
Hahahah!
Heavenly…………..I put Baileys in my coffee every night when I lived in Italy :)
Okay, so I’m looking to bake these tomorrow, except I’d like just a baileys dough -could I successfully swap cocoa for more flour and possibly omit the coffee (or not?) Or is that just a baad idea? Any tips on other chunky bits, too? I’d think more, but on a tight time scale and in desperate need of some inspiration! And cake…preferably served on cookies. With peanut butter. Always the peanut butter (experiences yet another pang as she craves the pb&j cake still on the to bake list)
So you don’t want a chocolate cookie at all? You could try swapping the cocoa for the same amount of flour, but I honestly have no idea how it will come out. I think you can easily just omit the coffee. If you try it, let me know! And by chunky bits do you mean adding more chocolate chips to the dough??
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Love this recipe! I was trying to think of a way to get Bailey’s into cookies, but all I could come up with was cupcakes.
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I made these yesterday and brought them in to work (because that’s how I roll…I brought in rum balls for the holidays) and everyone is RAVING about them. They were so easy to make too, but they’ve got great flavor and are so moist and fudgey–even the next day! Thanks for the great recipe!
I am so glad they are a hit!
hi! thanks for the recipe! i started making them and failed to notice the 4-6 hours of refrigerating. do you think i could skip that or is it totally necessary? boyfriend will be home in a bit! help! thanks again!! :)
Hi Blaire! I really would not skip the refrigeration. If you do, the cookies will probably be really flat and thin. Can you at least try refrigerating them for 1-2 hours?
i think i can swing it! :) thanks again!
Let me know how they turn out!
Cookies and Baileys – two of my favorite things!
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I’m making my 2nd and 3rd batches right now. The first was intended as a gift for a friend who’s birthday is St. Patrick’s day, but after a few ‘tester’ cookies, the rest of the batch seems to have been lost on it’s way to her. (location? in mah belleh!!!) My husband and his friend even took a break from building the deck to sip earl grey tea and eat 10 of these in a sitting!! They are now my new go-to cookie recipe, a nice change from my regular chocolate chip.
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I made this according to the directions for round one and it came out excellent. Loved it. BUT I like tweaking things. So I added a bag of the milk chocolate and mint chips in place of the white chocolate and milk chocolate and I added Bailey’s with chocolate and mint. These came out awesome! My only complaint is that the mint chips definitely over power the baileys, which you can taste in the original recipe much better. I’ll have to keep messing with it to find a good mint/baileys combo!
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Can the Bailey’s be replaced with the Bailey’s Coffee Creamer for a non-alcoholic version? I’d love to make them for my work holiday luncheon but alcohol is frowned upon in schools ;)
I never thought of that, but I bet it totally could!! Let me know how they turn out. It may even work better because it’s probably a little thicker.