Affogatos are the bomb

***Disclaimer: The following blog takes place in fast forward. On a speed scale of 1-10, this blog is 11.***


Oh My Gosh. I am totally buzzing from just having had my first affogato. And they are bloody good.

For those of you who haven't yet been enlightened by this wondrous culinary creation of humankind, an affogato is a coffee/dessert, where 2 fantastic ingredients are combined: coffee and ice cream.

All together now, YUUUMMMMM.

Basically, you have your espresso shot in one cup, and in another cup you have a scoop, (who are we kidding, 'scoops') of ice cream. You pour the espresso over your ice cream, (this can also be done gradually) and lo and behold, enjoy the incredible, sweet, creamy goodness that results.

A colleague at work discovered this on the weekend, and just had to share her incredible discovery with us. So she bought ice cream, and seeing as we all started super-early today, it was the perfect start accompaniment to give us that extra 'kick.'

And boy do I have kick. I have so much buzz I don't know how I'll be able to focus on work. Maybe next time I'll endeavour to have breakfast first.....

And and and. We were just talking and I've decided I MUST buy affogato servingware pieces so that I can make my own at home, for me and Hubbie and guests. And and and. You know how they have all cute little affogato items, like little cups and dishes and sqaure plates to present it all on. Yep. Guess whose buying all THAT this weekend.

And and and. Guess what? We were going a bit crazy thinking of fantastical ways we can modify the affogato to make it even MORE unreal, and we thought, 'how about adding frangelico over the top, or baileys irish cream?'

'And what about crushed biscuits?'

'And what about crushed honeycomb?'

So now the ultimate creation is: Multiple scoops of ice cream, consisting of vanilla, chocolate, caramel AND choc-chip variety, with baileys drizzled on top, followed by crushed biscuits AND crushed honeycomb, finally emphasised by delicious, warm, comforting, ESPRESSO.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh. Shudder.