{"id":2652,"date":"2011-02-25T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2011-02-25T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:09:57","slug":"basic-art-of-coffee-the-perfect-match-caffe-al-cioccolato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2011\/02\/25\/basic-art-of-coffee-the-perfect-match-caffe-al-cioccolato\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Chocolate &#8211; the Perfect Match &#124; How To Make Caffe al Cioccolato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about coffee and chocolate together that make such an inebriating, hypnotic blend of flavors..the two flavors make the perfect match ( better than Napooleon &amp; Josephine or Cleopatra &amp; MarcAntony).<br \/>\nA true Barista is a coffee chef, professionally trained in the Art of Coffee. Here is a drink I put together with my favorite Barista at my favorite cioccolateria in Italy. A &#8216;Cioccolateria&#8217;\u00a0 is a chocolate version of a coffee bar-everything chocolate!\u00a0This drink makes \u00a0a luscious\u00a0substitute for a hot chocolate and makes a great morning drink to give you a positive outlook on the day ahead or an evening drink to take away the evening chill in the winter or fall.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/coffee-and-hot-chocolate.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2654\" title=\"coffee and hot chocolate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/coffee-and-hot-chocolate-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Caffe al Coccolato<\/strong><br \/>\n1 cup milk<br \/>\n1 tablespoon chocolate syrup<br \/>\n1 espresso<br \/>\nshaved dark chocolate<br \/>\nwhipped cream<br \/>\nFroth the milk with a frother, or heat till just before boiling, set aside. Place the chocolate syrup in a tall glass. Prepare one shot of espresso or one short\u00a0 cup of espresso, place in glass with\u00a0 chocolate syrup. Mix well till chocolate syrup melts. Fill glass with frothed milk still hot, stir and top with whipped cream. Sprinkle shaved chocolate on top.<br \/>\nFor more recipes get your copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/products-page\/bookstore\/the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-second-edition\/\">The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays &amp; Special Occasions-2nd ed<\/a>. winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cover-smaller1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2636\" title=\"cover smaller\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marialiberati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cover-smaller1-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about coffee and chocolate together that make such an inebriating, hypnotic blend of flavors..the two flavors make the perfect match ( better than Napooleon &amp; Josephine or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,46,11],"tags":[1105,975,106,1369,1370,1371,1281,1092,1137,1114,1372,1373,1345,1169],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-drink-recipes","category-recipes","tag-award-winning-author-maria-liberati","tag-celebrity-chef-maria-liberati","tag-chocolate","tag-cleopatra-and-marcantony","tag-coffee-and-chocolate","tag-easy-beverage-recipes","tag-easy-coffee-recipes","tag-easy-dessert-recipes","tag-easy-gourmet-recipes","tag-gourmand-world-cookbook-award-winner","tag-hot-chocolate","tag-napoleon-and-josephine","tag-the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-by-maria-liberati-tm","tag-the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking-holidays-special-occasions-2nd-edition"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}