Affogato

A shot of espresso poured over cold ice cream, eaten in the minute it survives.

Vegetarian, but not vegan — contains dairy (cream).

Ingredients

• 4 scoops good vanilla ice cream, very cold
• 2 shots hot espresso, about 60 ml in total

Method

1. Put the serving glasses in the freezer for 20 minutes. Two ingredients means nothing hides a warm glass.
2. Take the ice cream out of the freezer and put two scoops in each glass. Work quickly and put the glasses straight back in the freezer while you make the coffee.
3. Pull the espresso and use it at once. Coffee that has stood for even a couple of minutes goes flat and bitter, and in a dish with one other ingredient there is nowhere for that to hide.
4. Pour a shot over each glass at the table and eat it immediately. IT IS MEANT TO BE EATEN HALF-MELTED, in the minute or so where there is hot coffee, cold ice cream and the cream loosening between them. Left to stand it becomes a cold milky coffee, which is a different and worse drink.

Our own recipe. This one was written for this site rather than taken from anywhere, so there is no source to point you at. The quantities and the order of the steps are choices, not the only way to do it.

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