Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Guess its an Austrian Thing


Look at that beauty! That isn't just a regular cup of coffee, this here be a glass of Viennese Coffee. Although I had an standard recipe, as usually happens, I lacked the common ingredients and therefore this became an R~iginal (bad pun?).
Anyway, this is probably the best damn coffee I have ever made, and comes close in competition to the cafe's back in hometown Europa ^_^.



Here's what you'll need for my "Apollo Viennese"

1/2 Mug of heavy whipping cream
1 tea.s. of powdered sugar 1/2 a box (as illustrated) of appllo choco
1/2 tea.s. vanilla extract
1 cup hot strong coffee
1 tea.s. of liquore de cacao (optional but worth it)

For the cream topping/base beat the whip cream, sugar, vanilla.Then put in the fridge

You have to make the cream topping and base by beating it, but I didn't have a electronic beater so.... I started doing this is a chilled metal bowl with a whisk, and then realized that would take forever. Then, being the clever devil I am I decided to put the whip cream into a mug and roll the whisk between my hands, it worked like a charm!


The Stove
While thats chilling in the fridge, chop up your apollo chocolates as small as you can (so they will melt faster). Leave a bit aside for topping.

When you're done, put about 2/3 of the whip cream in a pot and heat slowly on the stove.
Swirl in the chocolates slowly so they don't burn and mix until its all melted.
Pour in the hot coffee, still stirring, and lastly the liquore de cacao.

You can now pour it into a glass and top with the remaining whip cream (which I have yet to figure out how to do artistically). Then the final touch, sprinkle on your bits of apollo. ENJOY!

1 comment:

Cindy Thomas said...

WOW that just looks Amazing I will have to try it although where do I need to go for the chocolates?