After-Dinner Coffee Recipes (Fat-Free, Alcoholic Drinks)
Enjoy one of these fat-free after-dinner coffee recipes as is, or substitute low-fat or full-fat ingredients, depending on your dietary requirements.
Café Café
4 servings.
Ingredients
- 3 cups hot, strong coffee
- ½ cup fat-free creamer or half and half
- 2 ½ Tbsp white sugar
- 1 cup coffee liqueur
- fat-free whipped topping
Instructions
Combine coffee, creamer, sugar, and liqueur and divide evenly among 4 heated cups or glasses, topped with whipped topping.
Café Mocha
6 servings.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup coffee liqueur
- 1/4 cup chocolate liqueur
- 3 cups hot, strong coffee
- fat-free whipped topping
- cocoa powder
Instructions
Combine coffee and chocolate liqueurs and divide among 6 heated mugs or wine glasses. Pour in coffee, top with whipped topping, and sprinkle sparsely with powdered cocoa.
Café Orange
4 servings.
Ingredients
- 4 tsp fresh lemon zest
- 1 cup hot, strong coffee
- 3/4 cup orange liqueur
Instructions
Place lemon zest in the bottom of each coffee cup, fill about 2/3 full with coffee, then stir in liqueur.
Café Royale
4 servings.
Ingredients
- ½ cup hot, strong coffee
- 4 sugar cubes
- 1/2 Tbsp brandy
Instructions
Fill 4 demitasses each about half full with hot coffee. Stir into each cup 1 cube of sugar until dissolved, then float brandy over coffee by slowing pouring over the back of a spoon. Ignite brandy and serve flaming. (Quench brandy with spooned coffee before attempting to drink.)
Café a la Russe
4 servings.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup boiling water
- 1 oz semisweet chocolate
- 1 ½ Tbsp white sugar
- 1 3/4 hot, strong coffee
- ½ cup evaporated skim milk
- ½ cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 cup cognac
- 1/4 cup chocolate liqueur
- ground cinnamon, to garnish
- ground nutmeg, to garnish
Ingredients
Combine water, chocolate, and sugar in a double boiler (or heat-safe bowl over a pot of hot water) and simmer, stirring constantly, until chocolate is melted and sugar completely dissolved. Meanwhile, scorch milk in a separate pot, rinsed immediately prior with cold water, or in a glass measuring cup in the microwave. Remove from heat and stir together with melted chocolate mixture, along with cognac and liqueur. Pour into 4 heated mugs and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
Café Méditerranéen
6 servings.
Ingredients
- 4 cups hot, strong coffee
- 2 ½ Tbsp white sugar
- 2 Tbsp fat-free chocolate syrup
- 2 whole cinnamon sticks
- 3/4 tsp whole cloves
- 1/4 tsp aniseed
- curls of orange & lemon peels
- fat-free whipped topping
Instructions
Tie aniseed in cheesecloth. In large saucepan, combine coffee, sugar, chocolate syrup, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and aniseed (in cheesecloth) over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer a few minutes, until ready to serve. Strain into 6 warm coffee cups, top with whipped topping and garnish with curls of peel.
