Buzz Factor: 11 Ways to Cook with Coffee

Coffee doesn't just belong in your morning mug. Incorporate ground coffee into steak rubs, dessert and roast pork with these recipes.

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Vietnamese Ice Coffee Panna Cotta

This dainty Italian dessert was inspired by sweet, potent Vietnamese iced coffee. It calls for two tablespoons of espresso powder.

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Cowboy Steak with Coffee-Chile Rub

Beef up your dinner with Ellie Krieger's thick-cut ranch steak, rubbed with coriander, ancho chiles and espresso powder.

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Mini Pumpkin Churros with Chocolate-Coffee Dipping Sauce

Move over, pumpkin lattes. Bobby Flay's pumpkin-coffee combo pairs cinnamon-and-nutmeg-spiced churros with a chocolate-coffee dipping sauce.

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Momofuku Compost Cookies

From New York City's cult-favorite bakery Momofuku Milk Bar, these sweet and salty cookies pack in chocolate, butterscotch, oats, potato chips, pretzels and ground coffee.

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Singaporean Coffee Ribs

Put a Singaporean spin on your rib dinner with this glaze of chiles, oyster sauce and a few packets of instant coffee.

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Beatty's Chocolate Cake

Want a richer, bolder chocolate flavor? Coffee is the secret. Ina Garten's iconic cake calls for a cup of freshly brewed hot coffee to punch up the cocoa flavor.

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Coffee and Doughnut Icebox Mugs

A policeman's dream come true, these single-serve coffee-and-doughnut desserts layer espresso-spiked whipped cream with mini doughnuts in coffee mugs.

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Batch Pork Belly

This confit pork belly gets a double wallop of caffeine from cola and ground coffee.

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Moroccan Coffee Granita

When it's just too hot for coffee, break out Bobby's Moroccan-inspired granitas, spiced with ginger and cardamom and a splash of sambuca.

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Chopped Walnut and Coffee Cake

In lieu of after-dinner coffee, try this java-flavored cake, which has ground coffee in both the batter and icing.

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Coffee and Cola Pork Loin

Squeeze all your vices into one five-star dinner with this pork dish, which calls for ground coffee, cola, red wine and bacon.

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