Cafe Diablo

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 8 cups water, cold
• 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 ounce baking chocolate, fine chop
• 2 whole cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken in 1/2
• 1 cup regular grind coffee, dry
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup brandy
• to taste whipped cream
• 8 tablespoons coffee liqueur

Recipe

• 1 heat water, brown sugar, chocolate, cloves, and cinnamon to boiling in 3-quart saucepan; reduce heat. simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
• 2 stir in coffee. remove from heat; cover and let stand 5 minutes.
• 3 stir in vanilla.
• 4 strain coffee through 4 thicknesses of cheesecloth.
• 5 keep hot in saucepan after straining.
• 6 heat brandy just until warm in small, long-handled saucepan.
• 7 remove from heat; ignite. pour flaming brandy over coffee. allow flame to burn out; stir.
• 8 pour coffee into cups or mugs.
• 9 top each with whipped cream and 1 tbsp liqueur.
• 10 garnish with cinnamon stick, if desired.