You'd think was too simple to need a recipe, but I had one this evening that perhaps sat a little to long. It resembled a lukewarm latte and wasn't helped by being served in a Martini glass. The waiter suggested we waited until all the ice cream had melted (it was a good way there already) and then drink it down. No.
Espresso Coffee
Vanilla Ice Cream
Amaretto liqueur
Since there are only three ingredients, don't stint. You're not using masses of any of them so buy the best you can afford/find.
The hot coffee/ cold ice cream is not going to be a long lasting marriage - more a quick fling, so I try to get the ice cream as cold as possible. I scoop it into large balls and then hard freeze them on an open tray so they don't melt too quickly.
Make up the espresso. Place a scoop of ice cream in each coffee cup. They should be reasonably small. Hard to be precise but I think the same volume as an English tea cup, but with a flat bottom as it's for coffee. Just do your best. Pour in the hot espresso until it comes half way up the ice cream.
Drizzle Amaretto over the top. Give your guests a teaspoon to eat the ice cream with. Feel free to swap the Amaretto with anything else. I think a nod towards an Irish coffee would go down a treat, but suspect Baileys is too close to the ice cream and Kahlua too close to the coffee but it's up to you.
The boy wants second helpings but he'll be watching TV until 3.00 in the morning if I let him. #caffeine
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