- by Chef Didier Girol, ACTIOMEDIA Inc. -

While I was enjoying a cup of Piiti Caffè Nero cup of coffee, I thought about this receipe. This coffee, as a drip coffee, is really a desert in itself and even better as a jelly. The chantilly made using the same coffee will definitely suprise you by its mildness.
4 Servings
The day before, preparethe chantilly and the jelly
Pitti Caffè Nero jelly
Ingredients
300 ml (1 1/4 cup) 35% cream
15 ml (1 tablespoon) granulated sugar
2 g (3/4 teaspoon) powdered gelatine (Knoxx)
Preparation
- Use one tablespoon of cream to mix with the gelatine to rehydrate it.
- Bring to ebulition the remainder of the cream and infuse the coffee in for 2 minutes.
- Filter the cream to remove most of the grounded coffee.
- Add the sugar and the rehydrated gelatine in the warm cream.
- Mix without whipping and let chill.
- Cover up and put in the fridge.
Note from the chef
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I like the Chantilly not too sweet, but you can add twaek to taste by adding sugar to it.
Pitti Caffè Nero jelly
Ingredients
60 ml (1/4 cup) water
10 g (3/4 tablespoon) powdered gelatine (Knoxx)
40 g (4 tablespoons) brown sugar
Preparation
- Mix gelatine with water, let the gelatine rehydrate.
- Add the sugar and the rehydrated gelatine to the hot drip coffee. Mix well.
- Pour the mix in a square, air tight, container (Tupper Ware type) and let chill.
- Cover and put away in the fridge.
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Nutty chocolate sauce
Ingrédients
80 g (5 tablespoons) 35% cream
50 g dark chocolate Maralumi Michel Cluizel, coarly chopped
50 g (1/3 cup) hazelnuts
* Allergies! You can replace the hazelnuts by chocolate chips
Preparation
- Roast the hazelnuts in a pan or in the oven.
- Coarsly crush the haze;nuts and reserve at room temperature.
- Heat up the cream 45 seconds in the microwave.
- Incorporate the chocolate to the cream, whip well until obtaining a smooth sauce.
- Pour the sauce in the bottom of the glass casings (approximately 7 oz or less) and put away in the fridge.
Build up your glass casings as follow.
- Unmould the gelly and cut in small cubes.
- Lay out the hazelnuts in the glass casings over top the chocolate sauce.
- Distribute the jelly cubes over top the hazelnuts.
- Whip the Chantilly; it has to be firm.
- Finish up with a Chantilly rosette and decore with some hazelnuts or chocolate chips.


