Coffee · Dessert

Tiramisu Latte

Name: Tiramisu Latte
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: Specialty coffee
Ingredients: 10g dark chocolate sauce; Cocoa powder, 1 tsp, plus a dusting; 150ml milk of choice; 36–40g double espresso; 50ml whipping cream; 30g mascarpone; 10g sugar; ¼ tsp vanilla extract; 1 ladyfinger biscuit; Ice, to fill (optional)

5 min

Tiramisu latte with mascarpone cream, cocoa, and a ladyfinger on the rim

Tiramisu means pick-me-up, which makes it the most honestly named coffee dessert there is. This is the drinkable version: chocolate-streaked milk and cocoa-bloomed espresso under a whipped mascarpone cream, with a ladyfinger on the rim doing the biscuit's job.

Ingredients

Dark chocolate sauce10g
Cocoa powder1 tsp, plus a dusting
Milk of choice150ml
Double espresso36–40g
Whipping cream50ml
Mascarpone30g
Sugar10g
Vanilla extract¼ tsp
Ladyfinger biscuit1
Iceto fill (optional)

Method

Drizzle the chocolate sauce around the inside of the glass.
Pull the double shot and stir the teaspoon of cocoa into it while hot. Blooming cocoa in hot espresso wakes the chocolate up.
Add ice if serving cold, pour in the milk, then the cocoa espresso.
Whip the cream, mascarpone, sugar, and vanilla together until thick but still pourable.
Float the cream over the drink, dust with cocoa, and rest the ladyfinger on the rim.
Dip the biscuit as you drink. That is the whole point of it.

NotesThe cream should pour like cold custard, not hold peaks. A frother gets it there in seconds. Espresso for this one wants body over florals, so reach for the Brazil.