Coffee Panna Cotta with Chocolate Sauce

Panna Cotta is a famous Italian dessert originating from Piedmont.

Typically, it is made from cream and gelatin. You can add whatever you like into the dessert to enrich and complement the taste – milk, soft cream cheese, fruit, berries, chocolate, nuts.

Today we are having a coffee panna cotta. Cream and coffee is a perfect combination. Coffee flavor well emphasizes chocolate sauce.

Ingredients for Coffee Panna Cotta

• Cream: 500 ml.
• Sugar: 150 gr.
• Sachet of vanilla or vanilla pod.
• Leaf gelatine 5-6 plates (2 grams each).
• Instant coffee: 2-3 tbsp or 2-3 cups of espresso, depending on taste. If you do not like strong coffee, take less.
• For the chocolate sauce: chocolate 100 gr. + Butter 20 gr. + 50 ml of milk. – Melt in a water bath.

Recipe for Coffee Panna Cotta

1. Pour some water over the gelatin.
2. Heat the cream in a pan with a thick bottom.
3. Add sugar, vanilla and coffee. Bring to a boil stirring constantly.
4. Separate gelatin from water and put it into the hot coffee cream. Stir intensively until complete dissolution.
5. Pour the mixture into molds and leave in the fridge.
6. 3-4 hours later, when the cream freezes well, put the molds into hot water for a few seconds and turn them over. The jelly will easily slip out.
7. Pour the chocolate sauce upon the jelly.