Cortadito

A cortadito is a small, sweet Cuban espresso drink — a shot of strong, dark espresso "cut" with a little steamed milk and sweetened with sugar, traditionally so that the sugar is whipped into the first hot drops of espresso to make a pale, caramel-coloured foam called espuma. The name is a Cuban diminutive of cortado, the Spanish word for a "cut" espresso, and the drink is essentially a sweetened, milk-softened cousin of the tiny, intense café cubano (cafecito). It is served in a small glass or demitasse, drunk in a few sips as a mid-morning or after-meal pick-me-up, and is a fixture of Cuban and Cuban-American café culture, especially at the walk-up ventanita windows of Miami.