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Drink · 3 min · 1 shot glass

B-52

Coffee liqueur, amaretto and cream layered by density. Pour each over the back of a spoon and it stacks in three visible bands.

The sheet · 1 shot glass · 3 min

easy

Why tonight. Coffee liqueur, amaretto and cream layered by density. Pour each over the back of a spoon and it stacks in three visible bands.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • coffee liqueur
  • amaretto
  • cream

Method

  1. Layered, densest first: coffee liqueur, then Irish cream, then orange liqueur, each poured slowly over the back of a bar spoon held against the glass.
  2. The layers work because of sugar content, not magic. Pour in the wrong order and it simply mixes.
  3. Cold ingredients and a steady hand. Any speed at all and the layers break.
  4. Meant to be drunk in one, which rather defeats the layering, and doing it anyway is the joke.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

coffee liqueur
Sweet, roasted and thick, so it brings body as well as flavor.
amaretto
Almond-scented and very sweet, so it functions as the sugar in a drink rather than as an addition to it.
cream
Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

Next

Cook it, then tell the shelf what you used.

The ranking is only as honest as the shelf behind it. Empty the cream, and everything that leaned on cream should stop being offered.

Update the shelfWhy coffee liqueur and amaretto workBack to the ranking