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For me the best way to use leftover coffee is to make tiramisu, but there are many other uses for leftover coffee. The one thing I would never do is re-heat it in the microwave and drink, it will just taste like dregs. You can however add a few things to it to make it absolutely delicious.

If you only have a little leftover coffee and just as little time then just pop it in an ice-cube tray and make ice cubes. A lot of people recommend using these with their home made ice coffee, but don't limit yourself to that. I use them in alcoholic drinks too, such as Kahlua and milk, Black Russians or any other Kahlua or Tia Maria based drink. They are also good in chocolate milkshakes or in any chocolate liquor based drinks as coffee really compliments the flavour of chocolate.

Making a cold drink with your leftover coffee is a popular way of using it up. People pop it in the fridge and serve it up as iced coffee. This can be jazzed up in a number of ways, a particularly yummy one is as an iced vanilla latte. Take your leftover coffee and mix it with an equal quantity of milk, 1 capful of vanilla flavouring and 2 teaspoons of sugar (you can substitute this with Splenda). Stir well and pour over ice to serve (coffee ice cubes perhaps). Or you could take your leftover coffee out of the fridge and add a spoon of chocolate syrup, a little milk, stir and again serve over ice. Another variation would be to use caramel syrup. To prepare an iced mocha first re-heat coffee then add chocolate flavoured Quik (or other chocolate milk mix) and coffee mate. Stir everything together and put into bottles in the fridge for a delicious cold mocha treat.

Maybe you don't want a cold drink, well you can use your leftover coffee as a base for a hot drink. Hot chocolate. Take a hot chocolate mix that you like, make it up substituting the leftover coffee (reheated) for the water.

Now that our thirst is quenched let's move onto deserts, what better way to use your leftover coffee than on a delicious desert for your family? Tiramisu is my favourite coffee desert. Take 1 cup of leftover coffee and mix with 1/3 cup of Tia Maria (you can use the more traditional Masala, but I love the flavour of Tia Maria in the desert). Use this to pour onto a day old sponge or sponge fingers. Next beat together 2 egg yolks and cup of sugar until they are thick and creamy. Add a 250b tub of mascarpone and beat until combined. In a separate bowl whisk the 2 egg whites until they form soft peaks, then gently fold into

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