When baking, what to use for coffee liqueur?

Question

Can i use Bailey's as coffee liquer?
(im trying to bake cheesecake here! and recipe says i need 1/4 cups of coffee flavored liqueur...

what can i use??
(either a brand of liqueur or a substitute!)

Answer 1

i would use kahlua. you could use bailey's but it would have a different flavor.

Answer 2

Best Coffee Liqueur

Answer 3

First of all a coffee liqueur is a coffee flavored liqueur. So what the recipe is asking for is coffee flavor. To substitute, use milk and instant coffee. You have to consider that a liqueur is thick and creamy, so you have to compensate for that, and maybe use heavy cream, or hey use flavored creamer. You can use bailey's, as it is a liqueur, but you will have the flavor of baileys

Answer 4

Actually, any flavored liqueur will work, in a like quantity. You could use Cointreau (orange liqueur), for example, and the cheesecake would still be good...only it would be orange-flavored, not coffee-flavored.

If the liqueur is inside the cake mixture (as opposed to a topping), you could substitute a like quantity of cooled, strong coffee for the liqueur; it wouldn't throw off the moisture in the recipe, and you'd still have the coffee flavor.

Answer 5

The usual switch is using 2 Tbsp of Bailey's with 1/2 tsp of instant coffee powder.

Answer 6

Kahlua is the coffee liquor of choice. However for a substitute, you can combine vodka, corn syrup and instant coffee, to taste, I would start with 2 parts vodka, 1 part syrup and 1` part instant coffee then adjust to taste from there.

Answer 7

Just coffee, Bailey's sounds good.

Answer 8

Theres also Baileys or Caralines

Answer 9

Kahlua....coffee liquer.

Answer 10

we`ve always used instant or left over stale but new coffee left in the pot, works the same and is cheaper too. no one has complained yet, cant tell the difference.