No Machine Cafe Mocha
This rich, full-bodied, bittersweet cafe mocha is a classic coffee drink that will comfortably please your coffee and chocolate cravings simultaneously.
- Prep time
- 1 min
- Cook time
- 4 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- For Cafe Mocha //
- 2.5 cups full cream milk or semi-skimmed milk
- 2 tablespoon organic cocoa powder or 40 grams dark chocolate
- 2 tablespoons instant coffee or 2 shots (60ml) of freshly brewed coffee
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar, or to taste
- 4 tablespoons hot water
- NOTE: Some ingredients can be replaced with their vegan counterparts.
Instructions
- 1
In a coffee mug, add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder.
- 2
Add 1 teaspoon sugar, and 1 tablespoon instant coffee. Feel free to adjust the amount of sugar according to your taste.
- 3
Then add the 2 tablespoons of hot water to the mug and everything until sugar dissolves completely. Keep it aside.
- 4
Alternatively, add 20 grams of dark chocolate to a mug along with 2 tablespoons of hot water. Let it sit 2 minutes or until chocolate softens.
- 5
After 2 minutes, mix everything well.
- 6
Add 1 teaspoon of sugar.
- 7
Also add add 1 tablespoon instant coffee and mix again.
- 8
Once mixed, keep this aside.
- 9
Now in a saucepan, heat the milk on medium heat.
- 10
Do not boil the milk, you only need to steam the milk. So, turn off the heat right before it starts to boil. Alternatively, add milk to a microwave-safe bowl and heat for 2 minutes. Stir the milk and heat again for 2 minutes. You only need to heat it until hot but not boiling.
- 11
Pour the hot milk into a clean heat-resistant bottle or jar.
- 12
Close the lid tightly and wrap the bottle with a kitchen towel. Now shake the bottle vigorously for about 1 minute or until the milk becomes frothy.
- 13
Transfer it to to a frothing pitcher, swirl the milk around the pitcher, this trick remove the larger bubbles and you get equally foamed milk.
- 14
Now pour frothy milk slowly into coffee-chocolate mixture. If you don't have a frothing pitcher, then you can directly pour it from the bottle.
- 15
Dust with some cocoa powder or drizzle with chocolate syrup. Serve immediately!
- 16
NOTE: Watch the recipe video to learn how to perform these cooking steps.
- 17
ENJOY THIS RECIPE.