Skip to main content
Dessert

Hot Coffee Sauce

A hot syrup made from coffee, sugar, and water, served over vanilla ice cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Coffee and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,344 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Hot Coffee Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil sugar and water together for 2-3 minutes.

  2. Add the coffee and boil until it reaches a syrup consistency.

  3. Serve hot over vanilla ice cream.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves into the liquid and thickens into a syrup, adding sweetness.
Strong coffee
Provides the coffee flavour and, as it reduces, deepens the sauce's taste.
Water
Dissolves the sugar so it can form a syrup when boiled.

The step that matters

Boiling to syrup consistency. Sugar syrup thickens as water evaporates and the concentration rises. Boiling too briefly leaves the sauce thin, while boiling too long can make it overly thick or cause it to darken and turn bitter.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

More coffee sauce recipes

for Ice Cream 4 See all 20 →

You might also like

Coffee Ice CreamCoffee Ice Cream91 recipesCoffee CustardCoffee Custard27 recipesCoffee CakeCoffee Cake21 recipesCoffee Bavarian CreamCoffee Bavarian Cream14 recipes