Buttery Nipple

Butterscotch schnapps with Irish cream floated on top - a two-ingredient layered dessert shooter that drinks like butterscotch candy, also catalogued as the Butterscotch Delight.

The Buttery Nipple layers butterscotch schnapps beneath Irish cream to produce a golden-and-cream shot whose flavour is as mild as its name is provocative. It belongs to a family of suggestively named novelty shooters that circulated in American casual bar culture from the 1980s onward, alongside the Slippery Nipple - sambuca, grenadine and Irish cream - and the Blow Job. Bartenders working the period recall the drink under this name from the 1980s, and Difford's Guide catalogues the identical two-ingredient build under the tidier title Butterscotch Delight, recording that its origin is not documented. No inventor or founding bar has ever been established; it appears to have emerged from ordinary commercial bar practice rather than from any single bartender. The appeal is uncomplicated: butterscotch's caramelised sugar and butter notes sit beneath the whiskey-and-dairy weight of Irish cream, and the two liquids differ enough in density that a slow pour over the back of a barspoon holds them in visible layers.