Try out these two coffee dessert recipes : coffee creme brulee and coffee parfait. Creme brulee is a type of dessert with a custard base and usually topped with an attractive layer of caramel. Parfait, on the other hand, is a French word, which means perfect. It refers to the frozen type of delicious desserts.
Below are the recipes:
Coffee Creme Brulee Recipe
Serve: 6
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups sweet cream
3/4 cup sugar
5 servings short espresso
6 egg yolks
6 tablespoons brown sugar
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degree F.
- Mix the cream and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat.
- In a separated bowl, carefully pour in the espresso. Then add in the boiling sweetened cream. Beat the coffee-cream mixture until blended.
- Beat in the egg yolks until well mixed.
- Slowly transfer the mixture into 6 individual porcelain creme brulee cups.
- Transfer the cups into a baking pan with high sides and arrange in the way that it reaches one inch up the sides of the cups.
- Transfer to oven and bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven. Set aside to cool for 40 minutes.
- Wrap the cups with plastic wrap and chill for 3 hours.
- Before serving, remove from the refrigerator and sprinkle with a tablespoon of brown sugar to each cup and send to the broiler to heat for 1 1/2 minutes.
Coffee Parfait Recipe
Serve: 6
Ingredients:
6 egg whites
1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
2 1/4 cups sweet cream
1 1/4 tablespoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon boiling water.
Preparation:
- Set the speed of an electric mixer to high. Beat the egg whites in a bowl with the electric mixer until they begin to foam.
- Slowly add in the confectioner's sugar. Beat the mixture further until it forms stiff peaks.
- Place the cream in a separate bowl. Use the electric mixer to whip the cream until it forms soft peaks.
- Spoon the cream over the beaten egg whites. Fold in the coffee and mix until the mixture becomes blended.
- Transfer the mixture to 6 individual serving cups and freeze for 3 hours.
- Remove from the freezer and serve.
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