The latest Diced! cooking contest by The Ranting Chef is here. In this competition, contestants make four dishes: a breakfast/brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert. After each dish, I will put up a poll for you to vote for your favorite. Votes for the breakfast/brunch post are worth one point apiece, lunch are worth two points, dinner votes are worth three points and dessert posts are worth five.
Today we have a Dessert entry from Becky who blogs over at BubblyBEE. Check out the blog and the post below. Here’s Becky…
I SCREAM! YOU SCREAM! WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICECREAMIE!
Affogato is an Italian iced coffee dessert that is super simple to make. This fabulous dessert combines my husband and my favorite ice cream flavors: coffee ice cream (hubby’s favorite) and pistachio and chocolate (my favorites). It is the perfect summer dessert when it is so hot ~ you don’t have to turn on the oven to create this yummy treat! Somehow the name “Affogato” just doesn’t roll off my tongue, but I love ice cream rolling onto my tongue so I’ve taken poetic license and renamed my “Affogato” ~ “Icecreamie”!
Chocolate Pistachio Coffee Icecreamie
Makes 2 servings
Place 2 ice cream bowls and 2 dessert spoons in the freezer to chill.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter and 1/4 cup 62% cacao chocolate chunks in the microwave in a small bowl. Stir to combine and set aside.
Place 1 scoop of good quality vanilla ice cream in each ice cream bowl. Pour 1/2 of the melted chocolate over each scoop of ice cream. Pour 1/4 cup coffee (espresso is perfect but Colombian coffee also tastes very good in this recipe) over each serving of ice cream. Top with chopped pistachios. Garnish with a fresh strawberry.
Cheers to a fun day of dining! Now “BubblyBEE” the cook will have some bubbly!
Nice consistent tiny bubbles, notes of lemon and just enough graphite and brioche undertones to make this bubbly interesting!
Rantings of an Amateur Chef 
Reblogged this on BubblyBEE.com and commented:
It has been a wonderful day of cooking for the Diced! Day of Cooking Recipe Contest and now it’s time for dessert! Enjoy my “Icecreamie” recipe and I will send the dessert poll out soon. Thank you to everyone for all of your votes and support! Becky
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Sounds YUMMO, Becky! Make that “YUMMO AFFOGATO!!!!!!! Now, if we can just get this drippy, cool weather to cooperate.
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Thank you Mary Ellen! looking forward to
sunny days ahead!
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Wow, that looks great.
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I love chocolate, I love ice cream, I love pistachio nuts. This is perfect!
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