I don't know about you, but I always start my day with a cup of coffee. I love this drink with a high head of foam. That's why I like it to have some kind of design on it. It’s especially nice to see a heart on the cap of a coffee – espresso or cappuccino. Previously, I took a strainer in a given shape and sifted the cinnamon through it.
But not everyone likes coffee drinks with this seasoning. Cinnamon goes well with espresso and Americano, but not quite with cappuccino. But it turns out there is a quick and easy way to create a heart directly from milk. Let's learn latte art (drawing from coffee) from the simplest figure. My husband is a coffee lover, and he especially loves cappuccino. It was he who taught me how to make a heart in a cup of homemade cappuccino. And after that you can move on to more complex drawings.
Stencil
Stencil drawings, for example, a heart on coffee, are made on thick foam. To do this, you need to properly cook the grains:
- use only fresh ground ones;
- brew in a coffee machine.
Coffee brewed using another method will not have foam, so you will have to use a pitcher.
The stencil can be purchased or homemade. Based on the examples, draw a heart and cut it out in two ways:
- solid;
- thin strip along the contour so that spices or other materials can spill out on the other side.
You need thick cardboard, the diameter of which is larger than the mug. Cut out the heart so that it is smaller than the diameter of the cup.
For powder, a device is suitable that dispenses it in doses so as not to overdo it.
Idea! You can cut a heart out of marshmallows and put it in a hot drink.
How to make a drawing on coffee?
- For this we will need: a cup of ready-made coffee, cream, melted chocolate, cocoa powder, a stencil, a skewer for drawing, a pastry syringe with the thinnest nozzle.
You may also need other edible decorations. This can be multi-colored coconut flakes, powdered sugar and more. It all depends only on your imagination and your capabilities. Try yourself as a talented artist.
Drawings on coffee should only be done with products that can be eaten. To do this, whip the cream until it becomes soft foam. The easiest way to make an interesting and beautiful drawing is using a stencil and cocoa.
Take the stencil, place it on the coffee and carefully sprinkle cocoa on top. Carefully remove the stencil and that’s it. The drawing is ready. It's that simple and fast. You can choose completely different drawings. It all depends on the shape of your stencil. This method works best with mocha coffee. A great combination and beautiful looking coffee in seconds.
If you want to draw the design you want on your own, without using a stencil, then you will also need your drawing skills and your imagination. For this you will need an ordinary pastry syringe. For drawing, choose the thinnest syringe and fill it with melted chocolate. Take a cup with already poured ready-made coffee and go ahead. Draw. The drawings will depend only directly on your imagination.
You can also create a beautiful design using an ordinary skewer. To do this, again, you will need a cup of coffee, cream and some melted chocolate. In a cup of coffee, stir some cream and chocolate on the surface. Now on this surface you can easily draw figures with a skewer and make beautiful drawings. Here, again, everything depends on your imagination.
To decorate these designs, you can use coconut shavings in different colors or other edible decorations. How to make a drawing on coffee, we told you all these options are simple and do not require much effort. With the help of drawings you can surprise and make a pleasant gift to your friends and family. Beautiful, simple, creative and unusual. Try it and your coffee will become more beautiful and appetizing.
Drawings made on coffee foam are called latte art. This art requires a lot of effort. Not everyone can do this. How to draw on coffee correctly to get a beautiful drawing? Before drawing on coffee foam, it takes a year, or even more time, to be able to professionally make such unusual and appetizing drawings.
If you want to surprise your guests and make them such an interesting coffee, but you have absolutely no time for training, then the following drawing methods will come to your aid. There are two of them: stencil method and engraving. The first method is the simplest method of drawing on coffee foam, and it is accessible to everyone. The essence of this drawing method is that a special lid with a stencil is placed on top of the poured cup of coffee. The surface of the stencil should be sprinkled with ground cinnamon. This stencil has special drawings
(slots) through which cinnamon will spill onto the coffee foam and thereby create an unusual and simple design. Beauty! Cinnamon will make the taste of coffee richer and more unusual, giving it a special taste and aroma. Using a stencil lid, you can make unusual designs not only from cinnamon, but also from powdered sugar, vanilla, and ground pepper. This will give the cup of coffee an attractive appearance, and the drink itself an unusual taste and bright aroma. Stencils for drawings on coffee can be purchased at the store, or made with your own hands from cardboard.
Another method of drawing on coffee is engraving. You can make it using a special syrup. You can take fruit, milk or chocolate syrup. This syrup needs to be poured with a very, very thin thread onto the coffee foam, while making patterns that interest you. Accuracy and precision of movement are important here. Not everyone can do this. Therefore, of course, it’s up to you to decide, but the first method is much simpler and easier.
In order to learn how to draw on coffee, you need to have not only imagination, but also talent. Art such as painting on coffee also has another name - latte art. This latte art skill is almost impossible to master at home; you need a specialist in this field. But as they say: “if you really want to, you can learn anything.” Today we will tell you how to draw on coffee at home.
For this activity you will need: a cup of coffee, ground coffee, fine chocolate, a coffee machine, a pitcher and cinnamon. The technique of the art of drawing on coffee is as follows: you need to take specially prepared milk and slowly pour it into the coffee drink. Then gradually stir it so that various patterns or shapes are formed on the surface of the drink. In all establishments where latte art is practiced, the person in charge is always the barista, in other words, a bartender who has completed special courses in drawing on coffee.
When creating a design on coffee, you must have a coffee maker on hand. It is necessary to prepare milk froth in the coffee machine. To do this, the milk must be pasteurized and have a fat content of 3-3.5%. This milk must be poured into a stainless steel jug (pitcher). This pitcher was invented specifically for latte art. The milk level should not exceed the base of the jug.
This container must be brought close to the steam wand located on the coffee maker. Then we lower the steam tap into the middle of the pitcher, but the hole in its tip should have a distance of 1-2 centimeters from the surface of the milk. Afterwards, you need to open the steam tap, from which milk foam will gradually form. This foam making procedure will take approximately 5 to 20 seconds.
The coffee maker needs to make very thick espresso coffee. The resulting drink must be poured into a special container. To make the design more expressive, the milk foam should be sprinkled with cinnamon or finely grated chocolate. Milk must be poured into the resulting espresso in small portions, and the spout of the jug (pitcher) will reflect the role of the pencil in creating the future drawing.
There are three main shapes in latte art: apple, heart, flower. In order to draw an apple, you need to pour milk foam onto the edge of the cup wall, which will later be displayed in the form of a sprig of this fruit. After which we place the spout of the jug (pitcher) in the center of the cup and slowly draw a circle resembling an apple. Fill the resulting circle with foam.
We draw all other figures according to the same principle as the apple. Now you know how to draw on coffee at home, be sure to try it.
Don’t worry if the drawing doesn’t work out the first time, try it and you will certainly be able to surprise your loved ones with beautiful masterpieces using your favorite drink.
By making such an unusual coffee with an aromatic design, you can surprise your friends and family every day with such a wonderful and tasty drink. This coffee will not only give you taste and aroma, but will also surprise you with its unusualness. Let meetings with your loved ones and friends become frequent and unforgettable for you!
A cup of coffee with a pattern on milk foam is a signature feature of many coffee shops and cafes. For the establishment, this is a way to attract new visitors; for the barista, it is an opportunity to show their imagination and creativity.
Doing something like this at home for someone who has not undergone special training and does not have the same technical capabilities as a professional barista is not easy, but you have to try.
If successful, you will present your loved one not just “coffee in bed” (although this is already great), but confirmation of sincere feelings, if it is, for example, a cup with the inscription “I love you” on the foam or a drawing of a heart.
The instructions for beginning artists emphasize that the main component of success is good milk foam
, which is applied to the drawing. However, your own coffee foam is also extremely important - in a well-prepared drink, it lasts for a long time, giving the master the opportunity to create. Sometimes this foam is sprinkled with cocoa powder, and this adds additional beige shades to the traditional coffee color scheme. You can find information about the benefits and harms of cocoa powder. Read the article on how to properly froth milk for cappuccino.
Drawing a heart
Follow the rules below:
- Tilt the cup 45 degrees towards the pitcher.
- Bring the spout of the jug to the far edge of the cup. The distance between the cappuccino foam and the pitcher should be no more than 5 cm.
- Slowly but surely pour the frothed milk, first into the end of the cup farthest from you, moving towards the middle.
- Slow down a little - let enough foam flow out. So the heart will become voluminous.
- Now the key movement. Lift the pitcher and pour out a stream, as if crossing out the formed circle. At this time, place the cup level with your left hand. Thanks to this movement, a stream of foam falling from a greater height will “gather” a puddle around itself, and you will no longer have a circle with coffee stains, but a real heart.
The drawing may not be too good the first time. For me, for example, it looked like a blot. But here you just need to get better at it. Train, drink coffee and train again. In the end, even if you don't become an experienced barista, at least you will enjoy the taste of a great drink.
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Preparing the drink
To get a beautiful and stable pattern, coffee or cappuccino must also be brewed correctly. Sugar thins the coffee, so you shouldn’t sweeten it—you can do that later. But the main requirement for drinks for latte art is a high head of foam. This is the canvas on which we will paint.
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To make the cappuccino heart clearer and more contrasting, you can sprinkle the surface with the drink with cinnamon. But this step may cause the drawing to be short-lived. If you are right-handed, hold the pitcher in your right hand and the cappuccino cup in your left.
Preparing the foam
Happy owners of a coffee machine can simply pour milk cooled to 4 degrees into a special steaming container and pour it through the steamer into the pitcher. The surface of the stainless steel jug will give your hand the feeling that the required temperature of 60-62 degrees has been reached: your palm will be hot, but not scalding.
For those who do not have a coffee machine, you need to heat the milk in a saucepan or bowl to the specified temperature. Then pour into a French press and actively move the sleeve up and down. All the milk needs to turn into foam. Pour it into the pitcher. You need to lightly tap the jug on the table a couple of times. This is necessary for the foam to settle and become denser. Rotate the pitcher a little more from side to side. That's it, the “ink” is ready for drawing.
