Make Amazing Chocolate Affogato with This Recipe

Chocolate affogato is a perfect dessert, and among the most loved choices by children and adults alike. This cool ice cream can be topped with hot chocolate and delivers a great lovely taste. In Italian, Affogato means “drowned”, and it’s traditionally made by pouring hot espresso on a vanilla ice cream scoop or gelato. In short, the ice cream is drowned. Depending on how you view it, it can be considered as a dessert, a drink, or both. Alternatively, if you have Frangelico or any other Italian high-quality liquor, you can use it in your affogato and you will achieve amazing results.

This dessert offers a rich chocolate flavor, and it’s among the few luxurious beverage options that make a superb after-dinner drink and as an after boozy brunch.

What you will need

Here are the ingredients that you will need:

• 4 scoops of high-quality vanilla ice cream
• ½ a cup of espresso coffee (freshly brewed.
• ¼ cup of unsweetened  cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoonfuls of fine confectioners’ sugar.
• A cup of chilled or frozen whipping cream.
• ½ teaspoonfuls of high-quality vanilla extract.

Procedure

• Put 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream into every glass.
• Top each of the glasses with the hot espresso coffee, and make them ¼ full.
• Next, start making the cocoa whipped cream. Using a heavy mixing bowl, combine the vanilla extract and the whipping cream, and whip them using a whip cream charger. Continue whipping until a soft peak forms.
• Using another small bowl, combine the confectioners’ sugar with the sugar. Stir the mixture of sugar and cocoa into the whipping cream and continue whipping until it’s perfectly blended. Top the affogato with the cocoa whipped cream and you can serve immediately.

More Serving Options

You can be bold and make your Chocolate Affogato a sundae or you can spike it. Spike it with amaretto and you can liven up the party. Alternatively, if you have Frangelico or any other Italian high-quality liquor, you can use it in your affogato and you will achieve amazing results. Be bold and try any liquor, and you will realize that it works just fine.

What about affogato sundae? This is a sophisticated treat that you can have fun with. Add a crunch with some crumbled biscotti, with a high-quality caramel sauce, and finish it with some high-quality whipped cream.

What Makes Chocolate Affogato Amazing?

Remember that this version of affogato is kid-friendly and can be enjoyed by everyone in the family. It’s one of the easiest to make and anyone can easily fall in love with it.

While it generally takes a short time to make this dessert, the only time-consuming part here is while making the hot chocolate. On average, this may take about 15 minutes. What you need to do is scoop the ice cream into serving glasses or cups and put some hot chocolate to submerge it. Thus, you may opt to top the entire thing with candy canes or wafer cookies.