There are two ways to prepare cappuccino: using a coffee machine or doing it yourself. Let us consider in detail these methods of creating a flavorful drink with and without various additives.
In order to finally wake up in the morning, many people prefer to drink coffee. However, any drink that you drink daily can lose its charm. In any case, you will want to try something new. You can please yourself by making cappuccino coffee. This delicate drink with milk appeared in the sixteenth century thanks to the Italian Capuchin monks. The recipe has been improved and has reached our time.
Cappuccino composition
Gourmets are unlikely to drink a drink brewed from an instant package. Although its name is cappuccino, it has nothing in common with the real thing. The composition of coffee in a bag is based on the periodic table, but the composition of cappuccino is completely different.
A true, aromatic drink is prepared according to a special recipe from milk and coffee. Moreover, it is necessary to observe the temperature regime and proportions. To make the perfect invigorating cappuccino, you should mix equal proportions of milk and coffee. Milk is added to the drink cold. Whipped foam gives a special taste, which can be decorated with a cute pattern of cinnamon or cocoa.
A typical cappuccino consists of 45 ml of espresso, milk, and whipped foam. Sugar, chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, liqueur, caramel are also added to this masterpiece - for everyone.
Don't be afraid to experiment. You can add other ingredients to a foamy drink. This will only improve its taste.
Classic recipe
Making cappuccino coffee at home is not difficult. The process will consist of several steps.
- Making espresso
- Making foam from milk
- Combining coffee with foam
- Decorating the drink with auxiliary ingredients
How to make cappuccino coffee? Next we will consider this issue in detail. Espresso at home can be brewed in a Turk. Espresso coffee ingredients: 125 ml water, 35 g ground beans. For lovers of a strong drink, you can increase the dose of powder to 40-45 g. To feel the energy of the drink, you should bring the liquid to a boil 2-3 times. In this case, the strength of the coffee will increase each time.
It is advisable to prepare foam from full-fat milk (at least 2.4% fat content). Take a hot drink, pour it into a blender or mixer, and beat. If you have a cappuccino maker, the procedure will be much easier. It will take less time to obtain airy foam than to form it using a whisk or any of the above devices. At first, the thought arises that the process is useless, but you must have patience. After a few minutes, large bubbles will appear, then a thick foam with small bubbles will appear. This is exactly the kind of foam you need for cappuccino.
The next step is to “assemble” the drink from the ingredients. To do this, prepare ceramic and porcelain dishes. Rinse the cup with hot water to warm it up. Pour hot espresso into it. The next thing to do is pour milk in a thin stream to form a new layer. And cover everything on top with foam.
You can decorate the cappuccino with a regular design (in the form of a heart, cherry, flowers, apple, inscription, etc.) with or without a stencil. For the image on the foam, cocoa, cinnamon, and chocolate chips are used.
For those who have a sweet tooth, experts advise adding sugar at the end, when the foam is already in the drink.
Combining coffee with foam
In order for you to get a cappuccino, and not just coffee with added milk, the latter needs to be whipped into foam. You already know about the required temperature and fat content, now let’s talk about the process.
Important! In addition to the fat content of the milk, you need to look at the protein content in the composition - it should be more than three percent.
You can froth milk manually or using various kitchen appliances.
French press
If you have a French press, use it:
- Heat the milk to the desired temperature.
- Move the handle up and down sharply several times (until you get the result).
- Pour the foam into a cup.
By the way! If you really like cappuccino, you can buy a frothing jug. They come in different sizes, so you can choose the right one. You can also make cocoa and hot chocolate in them.
Using a mixer or immersion blender
To beat, you can use a mixer or immersion blender:
- Pour milk into a saucepan and place on low heat.
- Lower the device into it and start beating at low speed.
- Bring the milk to the required temperature.
- Pour carefully into a cup.
Important! Pour milk into the container to a quarter of its volume so that it does not run away when whipping.
Instead of such large devices, you can purchase a small frothing blender. As a rule, this device copes well with small volumes of milk and produces stable foam.
Hand mixer or whisk
You can whip the foam by hand - with a whisk or hand mixer. This process will take longer and does not guarantee a good, stable foam.
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You also need to froth the milk during the heating process, without bringing it to a boil.
The process of making cappuccino in a coffee machine
A drink prepared in a coffee machine is no different from coffee made by hand. How to make cappuccino coffee in a coffee machine?
- Brew espresso from coffee beans that have been previously ground into powder.
- Take a large cup and pour in high fat milk.
- Turn on the coffee machine and let it warm up.
- After the signal, open the steam tap for a few seconds to drain the water.
- Place the cappuccino maker in a cup of milk until it reaches the bottom.
- Turn on the tap again and wait for the result.
- To improve the process, the cup can be slightly tilted at an angle.
- When the foam becomes thick, turn off the cappuccino maker.
- Carefully pick up the foam cup. Spoon it onto the finished coffee with a layer of milk.
- If the foam is whipped perfectly, then even the sugar will not fall through its layer, it will lie on the surface.
To fully enjoy a strong drink with foam, take croissants, cakes, and sweet cookies as a snack.
How to make cappuccino in a Turk
To be fair, we do not brew cappuccino, but its base - espresso. To get a real masterpiece of coffee art, you need the following:
- brew a good base (espresso);
- choose high-quality milk of suitable fat content;
- heat it to the desired temperature;
- achieve dense milk foam;
- keep the proportions.
By the way! Not every coffee shop will serve you real cappuccino. Most often it will be ordinary coffee with milk.
The taste of espresso prepared in a Turkish coffee machine will, of course, be different from that obtained from a coffee machine. And this name applies only to machine-made coffee. With the help of a Turk, you can brew strong coffee, but this does not mean that the cappuccino will turn out worse, it is quite likely that you will like it more.
By the way! Real espresso should have a slight bitterness, be viscous and have a pronounced aroma.
The grind of the coffee beans for this drink should feel like fine salt. It is better for a Turk to choose copper with a wall thickness of no more than 1.5 mm. In extreme cases, a stainless steel product will do.
Take two tablespoons of ground coffee per 100 ml of water. Prepare the cappuccino base as follows:
- Put the Turk on the fire and warm it up.
- Pour coffee into it and add sugar to taste, keep it on the fire for a while.
- Add water. It should not be tap water or boiled. Spring water is best, but bottles will do just as well.
- As soon as the coffee foams and starts to rise, remove from heat and cool slightly.
- Put on fire, bring again until foam appears and remove.
- Repeat this procedure three to four times in total.
Important! The coffee should not boil.
Well, the base for the cappuccino is ready. Using the process as a basis, you can experiment with different coffees, grind levels and brewing times to achieve a result that suits you.
Important! The ratio of espresso to milk in a cappuccino should be one to five.
Cappuccino recipes
Irish style with liqueur
Ingredients:
Baileys liqueur - 25 ml; coffee - 225 ml; nutmeg - 15 g; milk - 110 ml;
Preparation:
Brew a strong drink from coffee beans. Whip the foam from the milk. Pour liqueur, coffee, milk into a heated ceramic cup. Place a cap of foam on top. Sprinkle nutmeg and sugar onto a layer of foam and drink with baked goods.
Cappuccino with ice cream
Ingredients:
black coffee - 225 ml; ice cream sundae - 35 g; chocolate ice cream - 35 g; cocoa powder - 25 g; cream - 25 ml;
Preparation:
Add ice cream to hot, strong espresso. Whip the cream and carefully spread it over the ice cream layer. Decorate them on top with a design made from cocoa.
Chocolate drink
Ingredients:
milk - 65 ml; chocolate - 75 g; cream - 75 ml; black coffee - 225 ml; cinnamon 10 g;
Preparation:
First, brew black coffee. Pour chocolate chips into the heated milk and wait until it melts. Whip the cream. Pour milk and chocolate over the espresso in a thin stream along the blade of a knife. Pour foam on top and garnish the drink with cinnamon.
Vanilla drink
Ingredients:
ground coffee beans - 35 g; yolk - 1 pc.; powdered sugar - 37 g; vanilla - 3 g; cream - 60 ml;
Preparation:
Brew espresso coffee as usual - in a Turkish coffee pot. Beat the yolk of a chicken egg, add (gradually) vanilla, powder and cream to the same mixture. Pour coffee (½ container) into the cup as the first layer, and add foam as the second layer.
Cappuccino with cognac
Ingredients:
white chocolate - 20 g; powder - 25 g; cognac - 24 ml; dark chocolate - 15 g; cream - 35 ml; coffee - 125 ml;
Preparation:
Prepare coffee from ground beans in a Turk. Melt white chocolate and pour into drink. Pour cognac on top. Make foam from cream and powder. “Cover” the cappuccino with it. Sprinkle dark, dark chocolate on top.
Making cappuccino coffee
Cappuccino is considered an Italian coffee drink that dates back to the 16th century and has become very popular today. No one knows for sure why this drink is called cappuccino, there are only assumptions, one of which is: it was named because of the Capuchin monks, who had dark-colored robes with a white hood. The Capuchins loved coffee very much, but it was not cheap, and they began to add milk to their coffee. There are other versions, but we will not delve into history, but rather talk about what coffee is under such a romantic and mysterious name and consider several recipes for its preparation.
Cappuccino is prepared on the basis of espresso (water and ground coffee) with the addition of airy milk foam or milk. The taste of cappuccino coffee depends greatly on the types of coffee you choose. With the best choice, it turns out tender and aromatic, and you will remember it for a long time. Read how to make cappuccino in an automatic coffee machine here.
It is not recommended to store ground coffee for a long time, as this causes it to lose the most important thing: aroma and taste, not to mention its beneficial properties. It is necessary to grind coffee beans immediately before preparation. Coffee beans that have been stored for a long time and have lost their aroma can be restored if desired; they must be placed in water (cold) for 10 minutes, and immediately placed in the oven and dried.
Making cappuccino coffee with a coffee machine is easy. What if you don’t have such equipment in your kitchen, but you really want this divine and aromatic drink with airy foam? Consider a cappuccino recipe without expensive equipment.
Classic cappuccino coffee with cinnamon
If you have a French press in your home, then getting milk froth becomes much easier. After all, the most difficult thing is to get airy foam. The higher the fat content of the milk, the more stable the foam will be.
For those who are not familiar with the French press, it is a device for brewing a coffee drink, which is a glass (most often glass) with a lid, and a piston with a filter inserted inside.
INGREDIENTS
- 100 – 120 grams of cold water
- 2 teaspoons ground coffee beans
- 100 - 130 ml. cold milk
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
COOKING METHOD
- Pour water into the Turk
- Add coffee (ground)
- Cook on the stove (do not bring to a boil)
- Heat the milk (do not bring to a boil)
- Pour a small amount into a French press
- Intensively begin to lower and raise the piston, about a minute, until a stable foam forms
- Pour about a third of the coffee into the cup and carefully place the milk foam on top using a teaspoon.
- Sprinkle cinnamon on top using a strainer (optional)
Cappuccino coffee with chocolate
To prepare cappuccino coffee according to this recipe, we will need a mixer to obtain milk froth.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 heaped teaspoons (approximately 12 grams of ground coffee)
- 200 - 210 ml. heavy cream
- 110 – 120 ml. water
- 1 teaspoon grated chocolate (milk or dark)
- 1 – 2 teaspoons sugar (to taste)
COOKING METHOD
First, let's make coffee:
- Pour coffee into the Turk
- Fill with water
- Place on the stove and quickly remove from the heat when the coffee foam rises. The foam has settled
- We put it on the fire again and raise the Turk at the moment the foam rises
Such actions must be done 4-5 times. The main condition when brewing coffee is not to let it boil, otherwise the taste of the coffee will immediately change.
Let's start preparing the foam:
- Pour the cream into a saucepan and put on fire
- Heat for approximately 30 seconds
- Beat with a mixer until foamy
- All that remains is to connect everything. Pour coffee into a cup and foam on top
- Add sugar on top (to taste)
- If desired, you can sprinkle with chocolate chips
The coffee recipe is based on 1 cup of cappuccino.
If desired, you can grate the chocolate in advance and put it in the refrigerator or freezer.
Cappuccino coffee with ice cream
INGREDIENTS
- 1 teaspoon ground coffee beans
- 30-60 grams of cold water
- 1 tablespoon cream
- 1 tablespoon ice cream (cream or ice cream, without various fillers and additives)
COOKING METHOD
- Brew coffee as in previous recipes
- Pour coffee into a cup
- Pour cream
- Ice cream on top
We recommend this drink on a hot summer day.
Iced cappuccino coffee
INGREDIENTS
- 1 glass – espresso coffee
- 1 - 1.5 tablespoon - chocolate ice cream
- 1 - 1.5 tablespoon - white ice cream (creamy or ice cream or any other)
- 1 - 1.5 tablespoon - cream
- 1 - 1.5 tablespoons cocoa powder
COOKING METHOD
- Add cocoa powder to the finished brewed coffee and stir thoroughly
- Cool the coffee
- Pour into a glass
- Add chocolate and white ice cream and wait for it to melt.
- Whip the cream into foam
- Spoon foam on top
Cappuccino recipe with almond flakes
INGREDIENTS
- 4 teaspoons ground coffee beans
- 40 grams of cream 3-6 pieces of almond flakes
- 200 – 220 grams of water
COOKING METHOD
- Pour boiling water over ground coffee
- Close the lid and leave for 15 minutes
- Pour coffee into cups
- Beat the foam (with a mixer or French press)
- Place the prepared foam on top of the coffee
- Top with almond flakes. Recipe for two small cups
The next two recipes are for those who are not driving.
Cappuccino coffee with Amaretto and ice cream
INGREDIENTS
- 1-2 tablespoons Amaretto liqueur
- 2 tablespoons ground coffee beans
- 50 grams ice cream
- 150 ml. water
- 15 grams of cream
COOKING METHOD
- Pour coffee into the Turk
- Fill with water
- Brew the drink and strain
- Whip cream until foamy
- Warm up the liquor
- Pour liqueur (hot) into a cup
- Pouring hot coffee
- Spread the ice cream
- Spread the creamy foam
- Grate chocolate
- Decorate with chocolate on top
Orange cappuccino coffee
INGREDIENTS
- 4 tablespoons ground coffee beans
- 4 cups boiling water
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 3 - 4 tablespoons orange liqueur
- 1/2 cup cream
- 1 orange
COOKING METHOD
- Pour boiling water over ground coffee beans
- Add sugar
- Heat until hot
- Add orange liqueur and stir
- Pour into cups
- Whip the cream into foam using already known methods.
- Gently spoon the foam on top of the coffee
- Grate the orange zest on a fine grater
- Sprinkle with grated zest
The recipe is for 4 cups of cappuccino coffee.
The following recipe is for those who are limited in time and have a great desire to drink cappuccino coffee
Instant coffee cappuccino recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 100 – 120 grams of water
- 100 grams cold milk
- 1 teaspoon grated chocolate
COOKING METHOD
- Put coffee in a cup
- Add sugar
- Mix thoroughly
- Pour boiling water
- Warm up the milk
- Beat the milk with a mixer until foamy
- Spoon the foam into a cup of coffee
- Grate chocolate
- Top with chocolate chips
A few recommendations: when serving this aromatic coffee, cappuccino is usually poured into warm cups (with the exception of chilled cappuccino coffee). A teaspoon is served on a saucer with a cup, with its help they first eat milk foam and then drink coffee. If you have coffee, milk and desire in the house, then you can always make cappuccino coffee and please your loved ones and friends.
And lastly. Video recipes, methods of preparation in a coffee maker and in a Turk, and even a lesson on how to decorate a cappuccino.
Tricks for making cappuccino coffee
If you want to get a strong and at the same time delicate foam for your drink, then take full-fat homemade milk or cream. The temperature of the milk when whipping should not exceed 65 degrees.
The easiest way to draw on foam is with a stencil, cinnamon, or cocoa. You can also use a toothpick to create images and signatures.
Always pour the cappuccino ingredients into a heated container. This way the temperature regime will not be disturbed.
You should not drink the drink if you have problems with the kidneys, liver, hypertension, pregnancy or during breastfeeding.
Please note that a cup of cappuccino has almost 500 kcal. Therefore, if you get too carried away with the drink, especially with baked goods or baked goods, you can gain excess weight.
