3 Easy, Delicious Coffee Recipes You Can Try at Home

On 1st October every year, International Coffee Day is celebrated to promote coffee as a beverage, encouraging fair-trade coffee and raising awareness for the plight of coffee growers. If you're a coffee-lover (ahem, addict), you certainly deserve a treat to commemorate this once-in-a-year occasion. And, what better way to honour this day than to be your own barista? 

Whether you're a classic cappuccino kinda girl or are still trying to whip up a well-balanced Dalgona coffee, a luscious cuppa is undeniably the perfect way to start your day. PERIOD. A mood-uplifter, energy booster, and conversation starter, all-in-one, Abdul Sahid Khan, Head Trainer, Lavazza India, shares a few coffee-based recipes that aren't just effing delicious but super easy to prepare as well. 

 

A Mint and Vanilla Cold Brew

 

Two words: Mint. Vanilla. And, we're all in. 

 

 

Ingredients: 

150 ml Coldbrew (any medium or light roast coffee)

2-4 Mint Leaves

30 ml Vanilla Syrup

6-8 Ice Cubes

 

How to Prepare: 

1. Mash a few mint leaves with a muddler and place them at the bottom of a glass. 

2. Add a few drops of vanilla syrup—if you don't have vanilla syrup you can use 20 gms of raw brown sugar—and mix well.

3. Add 6-8 ice cubes into the glass and pour cold brew over it. Voila!

 

Dolce Chocolate Latte

 

If you're not the oh-so-refreshing cold brew kind, we've got a sinful, choco-loaded alternative for you.

 

 

Ingredients: 

30 ml Espresso (Moka Pot coffee)

60 ml Milk (or almond milk)

60ml Cream (or soy cream)

20 gm White Chocolate

10 ml Vanilla Syrup (optional)

 

How to Prepare: 

1. In a medium size pan heat milk, cream, white chocolate, and espresso, stirring occasionally.

2. Add a few drops of vanilla syrup. 

3. Pour the blend into a coffee mug and top with shards of white chocolate. 

 

Orange Iced Coffee

 

The tartness of orange coupled with the bitterness of coffee—an unbeatable combo!

 

 

Ingredients:

150 ml Brewed Coffee (french press/chemex)

One medium size Orange

20 ml Sugar Syrup

6-8 Ice Cubes

 

How to Prepare: 

1. Brew you coffee, strain it, and cool it down.

2. Juice half an orange and pour it into a glass.

3. Add the brewed coffee and a few ice cubes as well. 

4. Add some sugar syrup and stir well.