Iced Espresso Floats with White Chocolate Ice Cream

Italians are as crazy for gelato as Americans are for ice cream, and there are many Italian dessert ideas we can import to this country. Affogato—it translates as “drowned”—is one of them. It is a combination of cold espresso and/or alcohol and any flavor of gelato. The gelato is drowned in the liquid. In Italy, it takes many forms; there is no one classic way to serve it. Here, I take the original concept and flood the ice cream even more for a drinkable version.