Today’s recipe is a Café Bombón. This is a sweet and delicious way to enjoy your afternoon coffee. It’s also the perfect way to finish any meal. Besides, it looks spectacular with those two perfectly defined layers of sweetened condensed milk and espresso.
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Love at first sip
I first had a Café Bombón at Havanna in Caracas, my hometown. That Havanna is a replica of the Havanna coffee shops in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These coffee shops are now franchises in Latin America, Spain, and Florida. And Havanna is, by the way, home of the well-known alfajores and Argentinian dulce de leche.
It was love at first sip. It couldn’t be different because, in Spanish, bombón means truffle. And Café Bombón is a hot beverage made of sweet condensed milk and espresso (usually in a 1:1 ratio.) With those two ingredients, you need nothing else. Don’t you?
How to serve and pair Café Bombón
Later I learned Café Bombón was born in Alicante, Spain. Like in Café Havanna, they serve it in small clear glasses for visual purposes. You can see the beautiful layers of sweet condensed milk and espresso.
This coffee is, as its name says, like candy. However, the sweetness of the condensed milk is balanced by the espresso’s robust flavor. Serve it with cookies or a good croissant, and it’s the perfect afternoon snack to indulge yourself.
How to make Café Bombón
Since I didn’t have an espresso machine, I prepared my Café Bombón with two parts of condensed milk and one of a very strong black coffee. I served them in cordial glasses just because they looked adorable.
The secret to creating the perfect layers is first to pour the sweetened condensed milk, and then with the help of a teaspoon, let the coffee run slowly through the convex side. That’s it.
To make this recipe, you’ll need some utensils and ingredients, including:
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Café Bombón recipe
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Café Bombón
Ingredients
- 2 oz. sweet condensed milk
- 1 oz. espresso
Instructions
- Carefully pour sweet condensed milk in a small glass.
- Pour the coffee on top, with the help of a teaspoon, let the it run slowly through the convex side.
- Serve showing the layers.
- Stir before consuming.
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My new afternoon go-to coffee drink. Gave me the pep I needed to get through the rest of the day!
Isn’t delicious?
We had friends over for dinner and I served these as our after-dinner coffee. Everyone was impressed at how pretty they looked and they loved how good they were!
Awwww thank you, Pam.
My goodness what a beautiful dessert! Those layers are lovely…I have never had one of these before but I cannot wait to try! Anything that involved coffee and I’m there 😀
This Café Bombón is so beautiful and delicious that I agree with you: it can pass a dessert, Tammy.
I can’t wait to make this recipe again! I mean this cafe bombon is something! Definitely a great way to WOW someone you care about!
Indeed!
What a delicious drink and I love how there are only 2 ingredients this. Such a great pick me up or anytime you’re craving an espresso.
Yesssssss!
This would be such a delicious after dinner drink! It looks so beautiful!
Thank you Christy!
This does sound like a to die for coffee recipe! Looks very fancy too, like one you would order from a coffee shop!
Exactly!
I love anything with coffee so I had to give this a try! I had never heard of cafe bombon before but wow it was so delicious and so simple.
And it has that great WAO factor!
For a moment I thought it was gelatina but then I realized it was coffee!! I immediately went to my pantry to open a can of condensed milk and try it out. It’s like dessert!
Indeed!
Very cool! I hadn’t heard of Cafe Bombon before. It looks very similar to Vietnamese Coffee with condensed milk, but is layered. I bet it would be fabulous with an alfajore!
The perfect match! Now I’m curious about that Vietnamese coffee. Thanks for stopping by, Bernice.
You have a typo. I says “tweet condensed milk” in the first step of the instructions.
Thank you so much for letting me know. I’ll fix it right now. Best, Enri
How about iced coffee without all the milk?
It won’t be a Café Bombón.
Cannot imagine having a Cafe Bombón with an alfajor at a Havana Coffee shop… daydreaming… in the meantime, I’ll prepare the café bombón at home 🙂 thanks for the recipe
Thank you my dear!
Es una bebida maravillosa!
Gracias mi More!
Qué rico! No pues, esto está mejor que sí hubiera estado mezclado.
Pero igual se revuelve antes de tomarlo. Gracias Blanquita.
It is completely my kind of thing. I will love to have it.
Thank you!