Espresso Recipes

This recipe seems complicated, but it makes delicious cookies. My family looks forward to them every year.

A vanilla bean pod or cinamon stick can be added to the dulce de leche while simmering to add flavor (remove before spreading on obleas). Substituting raw sugar for white sugar has a similar effect. Sometimes finely ground espresso beans, cloves, or cinamon are sprinkled on the dulce de leche. As a syrup (cooked for only about an hour and a half) dulce de leche is good on ice cream or crepes. A sligtly thicker version is often spread on toast. The Colombian version is called Arequipe and is also quite good; it can be found at http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/13080/arequipe.html (that recipe also mentions a frequent shortcut--boiling condensed milk in the can--which can also be used on obleas).

Delicious. Very moist, fluffy, and deep chocolatey.

A bit of work, this recipe, but well worth it!! There are a number of variations--Vanilla Semifreddo with Almonds and Amaretti, and Chocolate Orange Semifreddo . Good luck with it!! Enjoy..

Garnish: Instead of using cocoa powder, you can use hershey's syrup or chocolate shavings. I prefer to use both the hershey's syrup and the cocoa powder. It's delicious!!

Note: If you use granular instead of powdered coffee, dissolve it in the boiling water with the baking soda to pour over the dates, instead of adding it to the butter mixture.

you can make a low fat and economical version by substituing some of the marscapone cheese with lowfat vanilla yogurt.

This has been in our family for about 28 years Ross, enjoy! mom