Caffè shakerato: iced coffee the Italian way

You have iced coffee and you have iced coffee, as the . proves cafe shakerato. A somewhat crazy English name with an Italian ending. But that's for good reason, because this Italian-style shaken iced coffee is nothing like what it looks like.

Italy offers an infinite variety of snacks and drinks to get you through the often sweltering summer season. Everywhere you will find watermelon stalls, lemonade or bars that serve this sweet iced coffee.

But handy for the heat at home: you can use a shaken coffee very easy to make yourself. It is handy if you have a real cocktail shaker, which you can use by the way for little money on bol.com can order.

On paper, the shaken coffee indeed just a sweetened iced coffee, impressively served in a cocktail glass. But as always in Italy, it's all about good ingredients and the process and before you know it you'll have something special. This coffee also falls into that category. Don't underestimate him!

The name says it all: you take a fresh espresso, sweeten it to taste with sugar and you pour it all over ice cubes, which you then shake with the cocktail shaker. What arises is not just a sweet iced coffee, but a velvety soft iced coffee with a creamy foam and fine air bubbles. Like an angel pisses on your tongue...

You need: a fresh espresso, ice cubes and a tablespoon of sugar.

Here's the complete 'recipe'.

If you don't have an espresso machine at home, you can also use a mocha jar to make the espresso.