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| Coffee Affogato |
During the summer, but also along the year does not matter what season is, in Italy the typical thing is to drink Affogato coffee. The simplest Affogato consists of a scoop of ice cream - chocolate or vanilla - washed down with a warm espresso (although the coffee is sometimes poured really hot, which is not the best way because it immediately melts the ice cream and you go to drink a kind of milky coffee).
From there there are variants that we will explain below.
Simple Affogato: in an ice cream glass we pour a scoop of ice cream - the usual ones are chocolate or vanilla - while making an espresso. When the coffee is warm, we add it as it is, without adding sugar, to the glass and we can already taste the result with a teaspoon and then drinking it. The coffee will melt the ice cream and the sugar in it will sweeten it. In the menus of Italian cafes or restaurants you will find it described simply by the name "affogato".
Affogato "complex": Italian restaurants often serve fuller versions of Affogato. First they pour broken chocolate into the bottom of the glass. Next the scoop of ice cream. They then add the warm coffee topping the set with pressure cream. In the menus it is described as Affogato but following the ingredients used: "nutella" for the chocolate, "gelato di vaniglia or cioccolato" for the ice cream, and "panna" for the pressure whipped cream with which the whole is crowned.
Affogato "soaked": There is also an alcoholic version of Affogato. It could not be less in the country that has seen the birth of an infinity of liquors: grappa, amaretto, sambuca ... It is done in the same way, both in a simple and complex version, but adding a little liquor. Generally the liquor used is amaretto.
There is no problem in making Affogato with decaffeinated coffee.
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