Café après

Ingredients (for 4 persons)

• 110 ml strong coffee
• 1 litre of milk
• 100 g dark chocolate
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 vanilla pod
• Grated zest of half an untreated orange

Preparation

• Warm four heat-resistant glasses.
• Place the milk, crumbled chocolate and the cinnamon stick into a saucepan and bring to the boil at a medium temperature, stirring all the time. Remove the saucepan from the cooker.
• Cut open the vanilla pod and scrape out the pulp.
• Stir the vanilla pod, the pulp, coffee and orange zest into the hot milk and leave to infuse briefly.
• Strain the liquid into the warm glasses and serve immediately.

Tip

Add extra flavour to your Café Après with a dash of alcohol (e.g. rum).