How to make cream coffee just like in cream coffee shops

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Cream-coffee shop is an example of penetration of European traditions and culture of drinking coffee drinks into Russia. In principle, this is an ordinary cafe, designed to quickly meet the needs of visitors in drinks, dishes and desserts. And the main menus of such establishments are coffee and coffee drinks, including cream coffee.

Mood at the beginning of the day

It should be noted that the atmosphere in cream-coffee houses is very friendly and cozy, despite the bistro mode of the day. The waiting time for drinks and meals is usually kept to a minimum, all cream cafe employees smile sweetly and wish visitors a cheerful day. Light unobtrusive music sounds. Of course, you want to come back here every morning!

Drinks can be consumed in special glass or faience dishes with a double bottom, as well as light take-away cups called take-away.

Often, there is an individual approach to each guest in solving the most complex problems. For example, in many cream cafes you canorder an invigorating drink to your taste and according to your own recipe, indicating the ratio of ingredients to the waiter or barista at the counter.

Of course, the owners of each establishment claim that it is they who prepare the most delicious and fresh cream coffee. Customer reviews of these drinks can be seen in a special book of reviews and suggestions, displayed in a prominent place.

Everything in such cafes is made for the convenience of visitors, including the menu. On each page, a complete decoding of the ingredients of a drink or meal with an acceptable price. And also flaunts a photo of what you can order. The output of each drink or dish in grams and its calorie content are mentioned. This is a concern for those who follow the figure or are on a diet.

Everything on the menu is prepared right there in their own kitchens by baristas and chefs of the highest categories.

In some establishments, a local barista creates brand new coffee drinks every 3-4 weeks. It is not surprising that visitors leave, for example, the highest and most favorable reviews for cream coffee prepared with various fruit syrups, spices and seasonings. We will talk about this drink in more detail later.

Cooking base

As the basis for cream coffee, special quick blends are used from several types of high-quality raw materials of the highest grade "Arabica" or "Robusta". However, in some places it is made from freshly roasted and ground beans.

That is, natural coffee remains the main ingredient. And other mandatoryoptional products are:

• milk or cream;
• sweet component (sugar, honey or molasses);
• flavoring and aromatic ingredient (liquor, citrus peel, cinnamon, mint, cloves, ground almonds or others).

Cream coffee recipe

The named drink has a delicate taste and a light aroma of additives introduced during the preparation. Making cream coffee at home is not too difficult. Even a novice hostess will cope with this.

Ingredients:

• natural Turkish coffee - 100 ml;
• UHT milk - 100 ml;
• heavy cream - 50 ml;
• sugar - 40 g;
• chocolate liqueur - 30 ml;
• bitter chocolate - 15g

Cooking looks like this:

1. Bring the milk almost to a boil.
2. Take it off the fire.
3. Add sugar and stir.
4. Pour in room temperature cream and stir again.
5. Add chocolate liqueur. By the way, you can take creamy.
6. Beat the mixture a little with an immersion blender.
7. You don't need a large volume, you need a foamy consistency.
8. Pour the milk-cream foam mass into glasses for cream coffee.
9. Add pre-brewed Turkish or machine-brewed espresso to the glasses until nearly full.
10. Top with dark bittersweet chocolate. It, if desired, can be replaced with unsweetened cocoa.

What the drink is served with

Although coffee cream already combines both a coffee drink and a dessert, other goodies can be tasted as an addition to it. These include:

• desserts made with ground coffee beans;
• creams, mousses and ice cream made from cocoa, coffee or chocolate;
• desserts without coffee in the composition;
• Variety of fresh baked goods (buns, croissants, muffins, muffins, pie slices, cookies and more).