cream in one's coffee

cream in one's coffee (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) Something that one relishes.
   • 1928, “You're the Cream in my Coffee”, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics), Ray Henderson (music):

     You're the cream in my coffee. You're the salt in my stew. You will always be my necessity. I'd be lost without you.

   • 1992 July 4, Frank R.A.J. Maloney, “90210”, in soc.motss‎^[1] (Usenet):

     As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s.