Baileys Red Velvet Cupcake
A drink that tastes like a cupcake? It’s what dreams are made of. Red velvet cupcake flavour swirled with mouth-watering Baileys Original Irish Cream and other flavours and ingredients, a cake-inspired liqueur treat straight out of the bakeshop. Enjoy over ice, as a shot or as a grown-up baking boost. You can have your cupcake and drink it too!
What's in it...
ALLERGIES
Milk and milk products (lactose included)
Nutritional Information*
*Serve based on typical market based servings
It’s perhaps the most ostentatious limited release of Baileys of all time: Baileys Red Velvet, which is produced in collaboration with the well-regarded confectioners at Georgetown Cupcake.
You better believe it’s an honest-to-god liqueur version of red velvet cake, starting with the color, which is a somewhat horrifying shade of crimson that falls somewhere between Pepto-Bismol and a bottled smoothie picked up at Ikea. And here’s the crazy thing: If you can get past the color, it’s actually not awful.
There’s a strong and immediate vein of chocolate in the mix here, which gives the Irish cream a richer, more dessert-like consistency, with a flavor that is closer to milk chocolate than I was expecting. The gentle whiskey character of Baileys manages to peek through at times, but it is rather overwhelmed by all the sugar and chocolate syrup notes. The finish offers plenty of that classically cloying character that always seems to ride along with cream liqueurs, so tread lightly. And try not to look at the glass too much.
34 proof.
B / $28 / baileys.com [BUY IT NOW FROM DRIZLY]
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And we're not waiting until Christmas to try it.
Baileys has just won the ‘limited edition’ game with its decadent new Red Velvet Cupcake flavour. Seriously, well done.
The suitably epic special edition liqueur is made from Baileys Original Irish Cream folded together with the taste of fluffy red velvet cupcakes complete with cream cheese frosting.
The new red-tinged tipple is designed to be served over ice or can be mixed with vodka and cream to make a Red Velvet Cupcake Martini. Just whatever you do, don’t wait until Christmas to pick up a bottle. It’s only available for a very limited time. Which means: Go! Go! Go!
Baileys Red Velvet Cupcake (700ml) is available to purchase for $35.99 from all leading liquor stores nationwide.
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Baileys Red Velvet Cupcake has our heart. Remember at the start of the year when our biggest problem was that Baileys Red Velvet Cupcake liqueur was only available in the US and UK. Well, good news, because it’s just landed in Australia and we’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on a bottle.
“The flavour of red velvet cupcakes is swirled with our mouthwatering Irish Cream for a chocolatey treat straight out of the bakeshop. This is what dreams are made of,” it says on the bottle.
“This is what dreams are made of. Enjoy over ice, as a shot, or an adult treat when baking.”
While we plan to enjoy it over ice with vodka, we can’t wait to see how our foodies use it in the kitchen.
Watch this space.
Where can I get my Baileys fix?
You can find the new limited edition Baileys tipple at Liquorland around the country.
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