If using nutella, using a teaspoon, smear the chocolate spread on the sides of the cup. If using Italian hot chocolate, pour some ready-made hot chocolate into the cup until it is a third full.

Make a cup of espresso coffee, then pour some of it into the prepared cup (about a third for the hot chocolate cup, and about 1/2 a cup for the nutella cup)

Steam milk until it becomes a thick foam and fill the cups with the foamed milk.

Using a fine-meshed sieve, sprinkle the top with cocoa powder.