Easy Coffee Recipes

Vanilla Almond Coffee

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 c Ground coffee
  • 1 ts Vanilla extract
  • 1/2 ts Almond extract
  • 1/4 ts Anise seeds

Directions:

  1. Place coffee in a blender or food processor fitted with a steel blade.
  2. In a cup, combine the remaining ingredients.
  3. With processor running, add flavorings.
  4. Stop and scrape sides of container with a spatula.
  5. Process 10 seconds longer.
  6. Store in refrigerator
  7. Yields: mix for eight 6 ounce servings.

Cinnamon Spiced Coffee

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 c Instant coffee
  • 3 tb Sugar
  • 8 Whole cloves
  • 3-inch stick cinnamon
  • 3 cup Water

Directions:

  1. Whipped cream
  2. Ground cinnamon
  3. Combine 1/3 cup instant coffee, 3 tablespoons sugar, cloves, stick cinnamon, and water.
  4. Cover, bring to boiling. Remove from heat and let stand, covered, about 5 minutes to steep. Strain.
  5. Pour into cups and top each with a spoonful of whipped cream; dash lightly with cinnamon.
  6. Fun to serve with cinnamon sticks as muddlers. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Boston Caribbean Coffee

Ingredients

  • 1 oz. Brown Creme de Cacao
  • 1 oz. Dark Rum
  • Coffee (Hot)

Instruction
lime and sugar on the rim of an Irish coffee glass. Mix liqueur and rum in the glass and fill with coffee. Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon. Garnish with a cinnamon stick for stirring.

Hawaiian Coffee

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 pints hot freshly made double-strength coffee
  • 1 Coconut, freshly grated
  • 1.5 pints of milk (whole or skim)
  • Sugar as needed

Heat the grated coconut and milk together over low heat until the milk becomes creamy. Strain, reserve the milk, and put the coconut on a tray under a hot grill for 2 minutes until it is light brown. Add the hot milk to the hot coffee, sweeten to taste, and serve sprinkled with the toasted coconut.

Serves 8

Different Kinds of Coffee Delights

When it comes to enjoying coffee today, people seem to benefit from the many choices available today. Thanks to many enterprising individuals who helped make the business of coffee enjoyment a more popular privilege as well as a lifestyle. Before, coffee drinking was considered an ordinary everyday ritual.

Nobody bothered how they enjoyed their coffee. Most people didn’t have an idea then that there are other ways to enjoy coffee than just the black variety. It wasn’t until Starbucks came into existence that coffee drinking became the popular trend.

With Starbucks and other similar coffee shops offering different varieties of the popular beverage, the evolution of coffee as just an ordinary beverage has come upon us. Nowadays, one may not just order coffee as itself. There are currently a host of choices available that will challenge the taste buds. Aside from the traditional black coffee, there is the espresso to consider.

Espresso is basically coffee made by forcing hot water under high pressure through roasted coffee that has been grounded to an extremely fine powder. This results in having a beverage that produces a rich, flavorful, and almost syrupy beverage.

Its characteristics are due to the extraction and emulsification of the oils found in ground coffee by pressuring hot water through them. Espresso can be enjoyed as a straight shot or mixed with steamed milk and in a lot of other ways.

Aside from the straight shot espresso, there is also the caffe latte that might also be an interesting coffee experience. It is basically coffee served mixed with milk. It can be differentiated from a cappuccino in the sense that it contains more milk and therefore may have a creamier and milkier flavor to it. Cappuccino on the other hand may contain about a one-third less milk in a usual serving.

Another coffee beverage becoming more and more popular is the relatively new and unique selection of flavored coffee drinks being offered by more and more coffee shops like Starbucks. These are special creations that are served as hot espresso mixed with a flavored syrup.

The choices have grown as more and more flavors are being mixed with coffee as the base. Nowadays, there are vanilla, Irish creme, almond, hazelnut, and caramel flavored coffee drinks to choose from aside from other exotic fruity flavors such as orange and raspberry coffee drinks.