Mark Bittman

Ice Cream “Drowned” with Espresso

Gelato Affogato al Caffè

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      10 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home
The Best Recipes in the World

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

This is quite possibly the simplest dessert “recipe” imaginable: vanilla ice cream doused with coffee. The dessert probably originated in Turin, an important city for both coffee and ice cream, and is served in bars there all over town.

Ingredients

  • 1 pint vanilla ice cream
  • 1 cup freshly brewed strong coffee, preferably espresso

Method

  1. Put the ice cream in 4 bowls and take them to the table.
  2. Pour over each of them a portion of the still-hot coffee and serve.