An Italian dessert consisting of vanilla ice cream topped with a shot of espresso coffee.
the affogato was to die for, with the bitter espresso perfectly complementing the sweet ice cream
Example sentencesExamples
There's also an underwhelming "granita of the day," and a cooling affogato, which is essentially a glass of vanilla gelato with a shot of espresso poured over the top.
The first spoonful was luscious, like an alcoholic affogato.
To end the evening, serve affogato, a simple but sophisticated Italian dessert.
The best choice that night was a martini glass of hazelnut ice cream floating in coffee, listed on the menu as nutty affogato.
You don't need any grappa to enjoy the small, even artful, rendition of apple spice cake (served with a little wheel of panna cotta) or the very nice vanilla-gelato affogato.
But the affogato, an interplay of tastes, textures and temperatures, was the best.
We could have easily done this ourselves but it was a really good Affogato.
Origin
Italian, literally 'drowned', past participle of affogare 'to drown'.