Granita de Caffe con Panna

Espresso Ice with Whipped Cream

Preparation info
  • Makes 3 cups , enough for

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

  • About

This is a dessert for coffee lovers. It is served in Italy during the summer and, like caffeine, may be habit forming. No matter how much you have eaten you will always find room for this dessert.

Ingredients

Granita

  • 3 cups strong hot brewed espresso
  • ½ cup (or to taste) sugar

Method

For the granita, stir the espresso and sugar until the sugar dissolves. Pour into a shallow metal pan or 2 metal ice cube trays (without dividers). Cover and freeze until ice crystals begin to form, 2 to 3 hours. Whisk with a fork to break up the ice crystals and return to the freezer. Repeat this process every half hour until the granita is the consistency of a crunchy slush, 2 t