You know those desserts that disappear in an instant… and then you want another one right away? Well, the coffee and chocolate cream cups have just that effect! 😃

It’s a very simple dessert, just assemble a few layers of soft cream alternated with ladyfingers soaked in coffee and chopped chocolate that gives the right amount of crunchiness, to get a delicious and impressive dessert in its simplicity. It’s perfect for ending dinner in style but also for enjoying a delicious snack… in short, for us lovers of spoon desserts, it’s perfect for any occasion!

And today is the right recipe to bid farewell to our Monday Light and Tasty column, which takes a summer break for a well-deserved rest and will see you again, as always, in September.

In the meantime… well, we can only spend the summer enjoying nice coffee and chocolate cream cups, what else? 🤭😄

Please, help yourself, take the first cup of a long series!

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Looking for more single-serving dessert ideas? Here are three! 👇

Difficulty: Easy
Cost: Economical
Rest time: 2 Hours
Preparation time: 2 Minutes
Portions: 2
Cooking methods: No cooking required
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons

Ingredients for 2 cups

7.05 oz custard cream
1.4 oz dark chocolate
2 espresso cups coffee (barley coffee is also fine)
4 ladyfingers

Tools

Cutting Board
Knife
Cups

Steps

First, prepare the custard and let it cool.
For these cups, I used the classic custard with eggs. For the preparation, I refer you to my 👉 whole eggs custard recipe.
😉 But these cups work perfectly even with eggless custard. In that case, check out the recipe 👉 è at this link.
In summary, here are the ingredients to use to compose these simple coffee and chocolate cream cups:
When the cream is cold, compose each cup by alternating the ingredients in layers:
– break the ladyfingers to fit the size of the cups
– soak the cookies in coffee
– place one or two pieces of coffee-soaked ladyfinger at the bottom of the cups
– lay a first layer of cream on the coffee-soaked cookies
– chop the chocolate with a knife
– sprinkle some chopped chocolate on the cream
Repeat the layers until the ingredients are used up, or until the cup is filled.
Complete the dessert by decorating with chopped chocolate.
Serve the cups after chilling in the refrigerator for at least an hour (but the fresher, the better!).