OnlineRecently my husband brought home a colleague who was in town from Germany. So besides having to add an extra place setting at the very last possible moment, I needed to come up w/desert. In my home, it would normally be ice cream. Seven days a week. Yes, huge fans. So we had ice cream.....that lit us up:
Ingredients - Serving for One (1):
2 Scoops Breyers Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
1/4 Tsp. Starbucks Coffee Grounds (use your favorite blend & ground type: espresso, fine, Turkish, etc.)
1 single shot of Starbucks Coffee Liquor (1.5 oz.)
Caramel Ice Cream Topping (for that finishing drizzle - the drizzle is for presentation and tastes great!)
How To (preparation time: 5 min or less):
In an ice cream dish or dessert bowl, simply give yourself 2 generous round scoops of pure vanilla bean ice cream. Use your favorite brand. We prefer Breyers Vanilla Bean.
Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon of coffee grounds on top of the ice cream. We prefer Starbucks espresso ground Sumatra (extra bold) or Guatemala Antigua (medium). Grinding the beans to espresso ground creates a fine powder.
Then, drizzle with a little caramel ice cream topping.
Next, pour one shot of Starbucks Coffee Liquor on top. Enjoy!
Variation: Grind or crush some chocolate/espresso flavor covered coffee beans and sprinkle on top. Or, sprinkle with cinnamon, maybe nutmeg. Oooh,maybe some finely ground thin mint Girl Scout Cookies ground w/the coffee beans.
Terminology:
Caffience: the essence of caffeine
Ground type: Espresso, Fine, Turkish, Coffee = the consistency in which coffee beans are ground up
Shot: Jigger, Single shot glass = 1.5 oz
After preparing a few dishes, I learned the "key" is to sprinkle the coffee grounds directly on to the ice cream first. This allows the grounds to soak in. While the coffee grounds are the first item to be applied to the ice cream and all other ingredients follow, it is the single most ingredient you taste & remember. It was a hit!
As always, use your preferred coffee brand and ground type. And use your favorite liquor. I'm thinking this recipe and the varieties of liquor and coffees that can be used are endless.
Yummmm.
Ice Cream - it's whats for dinner!
Hhaha
Kidding - but we are fans of ice cream too. As for the grinding of java beans, it depends on the blender, of course, but grinding coffee beans until the powder becomes a bit moist and clumps together, makes the strongest brew. This must be the espresso grind, Martini? In my grinder it takes about 1 minute of grinding for the beans to reach this consistency.
But the ingredients of this dish sound like my fav Starbucks drink:Vente Carmel Macchiato (sp), with skim and whipped cream (I know, what's the point of using skim, right...?).
~A.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle
another good fancy (but easy) ice cream desert is to bake a chocolate cake (any box brand), cut it into 4" squares (for really fancy use a round lg. cookie cutter or a lg. brim cup). Place a large scoop of your favorite ice cream, drizzle with chocolate syrup or caramel. If you really want to be uber fancy add some raspberries or sliced strawberries. This is great for company and the only mess is making a box cake
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Well Im not old enough to drink but i love coffee. Im gunna have to try this for sure.
Thanks for the posting recipie!!!
My boyfriend DESPISES coffee, but I've done something similar with powdered baking chocolate and Bailey's Irish Cream. If you're going to Bermuda any time soon, grab yourself a bottle of "Royale Chocolate Mint Liquer". Bermuda is the only place I've ever heard of anyone finding it. Drizzle some of that over ice cream, yummy!!!