Friday, August 12, 2011

Iced Coffee Chilean style (Tavelli)

When I lived in Santiago, Tavelli coffee store was a beloved stop for me. I loved having iced coffee during the summer, it is the perfect treat to have before going to the movies or with friends. Since besides the iced coffee included whipped cream and ice cream is a full meal.
Iced coffee is so simple that you need to used the best ingredients to make it, brew an espresso, buy or make a good vanilla ice cream (not diet) and use sugar and heavy cream.

Homemade iced coffee, Chilean style
2 people

Ingredients:

  •      2 espressos (1/2 cup)

  •      1 1/2 cup cold milk, I use skim

  •      2 teaspoons granulated sugar (for milk)

  •      vanilla ice cream

  •      1 cup whipping or  heavy cream

  •      1 tablespoon granulated sugar (for whipped cream)

Directions:
  1.      First, make the espresso and mix with cold milk and sugar, stir and taste, if you like it sweeter add more sugar, let it cool.

  2.      Remove ice cream from the freezer for easy serving.

  3.      Whip the cream by hand or with a hand mixer, when star showing soft peaks about 2 minutes, add a tablespoon of granulated sugar and continue beating until the cream is whipped and hard peaks.

  4.      In tall glasses or cups to serve ice cream, serve scope of vanilla ice cream until 1/3 of the glass is fill, add cold milk with coffee almost to the rim of the glass, leaving 1' free and add the whipped cream.

  5.      Serve immediately.