Coffee and chocolate are like best buddies; they help each other taste their best!! Coffee is used to intensify the flavor of chocolate in recipes creating a rich and uniquely decadent flavor. Adding it to this Chocolate Marquesa (Marquesa de Chocolate Venezolana) is no exception. I used Instant Coffee in this recipe, but you can also use Espresso Powder. However, reduce the amount by half since Espresso Powder is intensely darker and a more concentrated brewed coffee that has been dried into powder or crystals. I found this blog post to help explain the differences between Instant Coffee versus Espresso Powder.