A famous Italian coffee-based dessert using vanilla ice cream and espresso. It can be easily made at home by substituting espresso with instant coffee. This is a must-try recipe for anyone who loves coffee.
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Well, the affogato recipe calls for vanilla ice cream and espresso. Since we don't have an espresso machine at home, I replaced it with instant coffee, and oh my gosh! It is heaven, a mix of creamy sweet vanilla ice cream with a kick of coffee. Add your favorite topping such as chocolate chip and this tastes even better. The trick to enjoying Affogato is to eat the dessert before it fully melts and drink up the remaining delicious coffee.
Topping affogato with crushed biscuits and chocolate chips gives the dessert a crunchy texture. I used digestive biscuits in this recipe which provide a nice salty flavor. You can replace the digestive biscuits with any other kinds such as crushed chocolate chip cookies or Oreos. I like it when there is a little bit of saltiness in desserts so I went with digestive biscuits.
Things to note for a perfect Affogato:
Vanilla ice cream used in the recipe must be frozen, it means frozen as rock, Do not leave the ice cream out from the cold and then use it in affogato. Trust me the result would be a soup of ice cream and coffee than a beautiful dessert. So always scoop out the required amount of ice cream and leave it in the freezer for another 1 hour.
The prepared coffee must be hot but not piping hot. Using piping hot coffee over the ice cream will not give you enough time to enjoy the dessert. and you ll be in a hurry to finish it off before it turns into soup.
Affogato Serves: 1
Ingredients:
Instant coffee powder: 3 tsp.
Hot water - 1/4 cup
Vanilla Ice cream - 2 large scoops.
For granish
Chocolate chips - 1 tbsp.
Crushed digestive biscuits: 1 tbsp.
Chocolate sauce - 2 tsp.
Method:
Add 3 tsp. of instant coffee powder into hot water. Mix well to combine.
To a serving glass, preferably a dessert glass, add 2 large scoops of vanilla ice cream.
Now pour over the hot coffee and top it with crushed biscuits, chocolate chips, and chocolate sauce.
Serve immediately.
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