Espresso based drinks

Types of coffee cocktails

All cocktails that use coffee in their preparation are divided into the following varieties:

• non-alcoholic;
• alcoholic;
• hot;
• cold;
• fruit;
• dairy

A classic option is the combination of coffee beans with chocolate and dairy products.

Based on these ingredients, you can prepare a hot and cold version of the drink. As a rule, when choosing one or another of them, the time of year is taken into account. On a hot summer day you want something refreshing, and on winter evenings, on the contrary, something warming.

Hot soft drinks

There is more than one recipe for making hot non-alcoholic coffee cocktails. It is worth highlighting the most popular and unusual of them.

With orange and caramel

You will need the following ingredients:

• 100 ml freshly squeezed orange juice;
• 60 ml caramel syrup;
• 120 ml freshly prepared coffee.

The following steps should be taken:

1. Pour syrup into a glass.
2. Warm the juice a little and immediately add it to the composition.
3. Pour hot coffee in a thin stream.

With cream and mint

Homemade drink is prepared based on the following components:

• 2 cocktail cherries;
• mint sprig;
• 50 ml hot chocolate;
• 60 ml of freshly prepared espresso;
• 100 ml heavy cream.

The following steps are performed step by step:

1. Tear the mint into small pieces and place it on the bottom of the glass.
2. Espresso is also poured in there.
3. In another container, beat cream and hot chocolate with a blender.
4. The resulting mixture is poured into a glass.

Decorate the finished drink with cherries and a mint leaf.

With strawberry syrup and milk

The following products are used:

• 100 ml espresso;
• 50 ml fresh milk;
• 60 ml strawberry syrup;
• cinnamon (on the tip of a knife);
• a pinch of vanilla;
• 10 g dark or milk chocolate.

The recipe requires the following steps:

1. The products are poured into the glass in layers. The syrup is poured into it first.
2. Then add the heated mixture of milk with cinnamon and vanilla.
3. The last espresso is poured in along with the chocolate dissolved in it.

Chocolate cocktail

For two servings you will need the following products:

• 250 ml of ready-made coffee;
• 30 g chocolate;
• 50 ml cream;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• one teaspoon of sugar.

To obtain an exquisite drink, you need to perform the following manipulations:

1. The chocolate needs to be melted.
2. Then beat the cream with sugar, cinnamon and chocolate in a blender.
3. Pour hot coffee into cups.
4. Place cream and chocolate mixture on top.

Top 3 with milk

Cocktails with coffee and milk are the most common. They can be given to children, reducing the amount of coffee brew, and can be made hot or cold. The number of recipes created is huge. But there are three that are more common than others.

With ice cream

This coffee cocktail is prepared in a blender in 3 minutes. Products need to be prepared:

ice cream – a glass is enough for one serving;

a glass of cold milk;

100 ml espresso;

grated dark chocolate – 2 tablespoons;

sugar to taste.

Place all ingredients except chocolate in a blender and beat until foam appears. Quickly pour into glasses and sprinkle with chocolate chips.

Cold drink with crushed ice

Coffee cocktails with ice and milk can be drunk without sugar, since in the summer sugary drinks and foods make you even more thirsty. Here are only natural ingredients:

a glass of milk;

half a glass of espresso;

ice cubes.

How to make a coffee cocktail:

Mix cold espresso with ice cubes and slowly break them into crumbs with a blender.

Add cold milk.

Milk contains a small part of fat and milk sugar, since this amount is enough to maintain strength. It is offered in fitness clubs after workouts to tone muscles and relieve fatigue with caffeine.

Hot drink with milk

This coffee cocktail is used to prevent colds, since hot milk warms up the bronchi and upper respiratory tract well. To prepare you need:

hot Americano 100 ml;

honey – 1 tablespoon;

turmeric – 1 teaspoon;

a glass of milk – you can take vegetable milk.

Preparation procedure:

Cook Americano with turmeric in a pot.

Heat the milk with a steam wand or in a saucepan, add honey. Stir.

Mix both liquids.

Turmeric is a remedy for immunity and the treatment of colds, so even doctors recommend it for hot drinks in winter.

Cold coffee cocktails

Such coffee-based cocktails will be simply irreplaceable in the summer heat. With their help you can refresh yourself and get great pleasure. They turn out incredibly tasty and very aromatic.

With mint and chocolate

When planning to prepare a coffee cocktail, you need to make sure you have the following products:

• 350 ml Americano;
• 40 g chocolate;
• 100 g ice cream;
• crushed ice;
• 30 ml mint syrup.

Preparation is carried out in several stages:

1. Chocolate is dissolved in hot coffee. Waiting for it to cool down.
2. Add half the portion of ice cream indicated in the recipe and syrup.
3. Beat the resulting mass with a blender.
4. Pour into portions.
5. Pieces of ice and the remaining ice cream are placed on top.

With banana and ice cream

Unlike the classic milkshake with coffee, this recipe uses ice cream and a number of other, very non-standard ingredients:

• 200 ml espresso;
• 50 g white ice cream;
• 100 g banana;
• 40 g chocolate;
• cinnamon (on the tip of a knife);
• sugar (optional).

The drink is prepared as follows:

1. The coffee is pre-cooled.
2. Add ice cream and banana to the composition.
3. Beat the resulting mixture with a blender.
4. Pour the drink into cups.
5. Sprinkle cinnamon and grated chocolate on top.

With tea

You will need the following products for a cold cocktail:

• 4 teaspoons black tea;
• 100 ml espresso;
• 50 ml milk;
• sugar (optional);
• a few ice cubes.

The following actions are performed:

1. Pour 500 ml of water into an enamel-coated container and add tea.
2. The liquid is brought to a boil and immediately removed from the stove.
3. The tea is filtered.
4. Sugar and milk are added to the composition.
5. The resulting mixture is cooled and poured into cups, filling them one-third full.
6. A separate layer of espresso is poured on top.

Milk coffee

The following products are used:

• 150 ml Americano;
• 50 ml milk;
• sugar (optional);
• a few pieces of ice.

Making a coffee milkshake is incredibly easy. Simply mix all the ingredients and pour into glasses.

With orange

You need to make sure you have the following ingredients:

• 250 ml orange juice;
• orange zest from one fruit;
• 250 ml purified water;
• 100 g granulated sugar;
• 500 ml of ready-made coffee;
• 200 ml whipped cream.

Cooking steps:

1. Water is poured into an enamel container.
2. Add sugar and orange zest to the mixture.
3. Boil the mixture for five minutes, then strain and cool.
4. Coffee is mixed with orange juice.
5. Fill a quarter glass with the prepared syrup.

The coffee-orange mixture is poured on top. Whipped cream is evenly placed on the surface.

Coffee smoothie

The list of ingredients for making a smoothie is as follows:

• 250 ml Americano;
• 1 small banana;
• cinnamon on the tip of a knife;
• 200 ml yogurt without additives;
• 1 teaspoon cocoa;
• 50 g of berries (at your own discretion).

To get the drink, put all the ingredients in a blender and blend. The result should be a mass similar to puree.

With peach and ice cream

The following products are used:

• 1 peach;
• 30 g cream;
• 150 ml espresso;
• 60 g ice cream.

You just need to follow a few simple steps:

1. Beat the peach and cream until it becomes a puree consistency.
2. Pour the resulting mixture into a glass.
3. Pour coffee in there.
4. Place ice cream on the surface.
5. Garnish the drink with a peach slice.

Cold cocktails with coffee

The curated list includes delicious cocktails for hot weather.

Coffee with chocolate, ice cream and mint syrup

Ingredients:

• espresso – 350 ml,
• dark chocolate – 40 g,
• creamy ice cream – 100 g,
• ice - a few cubes,
• mint syrup – 3 tbsp.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Melt the chocolate, broken into pieces, in hot, freshly brewed espresso.
2. Let the coffee cool for about 10 minutes.
3. Add 50g of ice cream and pour syrup.
4. Pour the resulting drink into portions, garnish with pieces of ice and the remaining ice cream.

Banana coffee with ice cream

Ingredients:

• espresso – 250 ml,
• creamy ice cream – 50 g,
• banana – 1 piece (small),
• milk chocolate – 30g,
• cinnamon, sugar - to taste.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Add banana and ice cream to cooled sweet espresso.
2. Mix into a homogeneous mass in a blender.
3. Grate the chocolate on a fine grater.
4. Pour the resulting drink into a glass, adding chocolate chips and cinnamon.

Coffee cocktail with peach and ice cream

Ingredients:

• cream 10% – 30 ml,
• chilled espresso – 150 ml,
• creamy ice cream – 60 g,
• peach (fresh or canned) – 1 pc.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Puree the peach and add cream.
2. Pour the resulting puree into a glass, diluting it with coffee.
3. Garnish with a scoop of ice cream, chocolate chips and a peach slice and a little whipped cream.

Coffee milkshake with donuts and ice cream

Ingredients:

• chilled Americano – 1 glass,
• cow's milk - 1 glass,
• coffee flavored ice cream – 2 tbsp,
• vanilla ice cream – 1 tbsp,
• ice - 4 cubes,
• donuts – 1 or 2 pieces,
• cinnamon, sugar - to taste.

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Grind the products indicated in the list in a blender.
2. Sprinkle the edges of the glasses moistened with water with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.
3. Pour the cocktail into decorated glasses.

Alcoholic cocktails

When preparing alcoholic cocktails with coffee, whiskey, liqueur, vodka, cognac and other alcoholic drinks can be used. The main thing is to strictly follow the technology and follow the proportions specified in the recipes. The result of such work will certainly please you.

Irish coffee

The cocktail is so called due to the fact that it was invented in a bar at Shannon Airport, located in Ireland. The following products are used for its preparation:

• 45 ml whiskey;
• 150 ml Americano;
• 50 ml heavy cream;
• 150 ml sugar syrup.

The recipe requires the following steps:

1. Whip the cream using a blender or a regular whisk.
2. Freshly prepared Americano is poured into the glass.
3. Whiskey and sugar syrup are added to the mixture.
4. Mix everything thoroughly.
5. Cream is placed on top.

Rattlesnake

The drink received such an unusual name due to the fact that when mixing the ingredients you can hear a hissing sound. To prepare it you need the following components:

• 15 ml each of coffee, cocoa and cream liqueur;
• 5 g ground coffee beans;
• pieces of ice.

To get an alcohol-based cocktail, you need to follow these steps:

1. All liqueurs and ice are mixed in a shaker.
2. The resulting mixture is poured through a strainer into a small glass.
3. The drink is sprinkled with ground coffee beans on top.

Foam Devil

The taste of this original drink is quite extraordinary, but quite a lot of people like it. It consists of the following components:

• 200 ml beer;
• 50 ml rum;
• 25 ml espresso;
• on the tip of a knife, ground black pepper and salt.

Preparing the Foamy Devil is quite simple. You just need to mix beer with rum and espresso, and then sprinkle everything with salt and pepper.

Boombox

The following ingredients are needed for this recipe:

• 15 ml vodka;
• 15 ml butter wine;
• 15 ml hot Americano.

Simple steps to follow:

1. Initially, butter wine is poured into the glass.
2. Then the Americano is poured in with a spoon.
3. The top layer is vodka.

The components are not mixed. All contents are drunk in one gulp.

Banana freshness

To get an invigorating, refreshing cocktail, you need to prepare the following products:

• 50 ml espresso;
• 50 ml cream;
• 25 ml cognac;
• pieces of ice;
• half a banana.

Following the recipe, you only need to perform a few steps:

1. Using a blender, beat the mixture of coffee, cream, banana and cognac.
2. Pour the resulting liquid into a glass.
3. Add ice.
4. Place banana slices on top.

Ten best alcoholic cocktails with coffee

Coffee cocktails are tasty, aromatic and tonic. However, most of them are easy to make at home. We present to your attention a rating of ten alcoholic cocktails based on coffee, compiled by the editors of the Alcofan website. When evaluating, we were guided by the taste, popularity and ease of preparation of the drinks.

1. "Irish coffee."

Invented in a bar at Shannon Airport in Ireland. In 1952, the recipe for the drink was brought home by American journalist Stan Delaplane. A few years later, Irish coffee fell in love with the whole world. Its soft, balanced taste is remembered forever.

• whiskey (Irish) – 45 ml;
• Americano coffee – 120 ml;
• cream (fat) – 45 ml;
• sugar syrup – 15 ml.

Recipe: Whip the cream with a whisk, pour hot Americano, sugar syrup and whiskey into a glass. Stir with a spoon and place a layer of cream on top.

2. “Bowling in TU-154.”

According to legend, if you treat a flight attendant to this cocktail, then you can do whatever you want on the plane. An unusual shot based on vodka with condensed milk and coffee, easy to prepare at home.

• vodka – 15 ml;
• condensed milk – 15 ml;
• ground coffee – 5 grams.

Recipe: mix condensed milk with coffee and pour into a shot glass, place vodka on top with a cocktail spoon so that the layers do not mix.

3. "Rattlesnake."

When mixing the ingredients, a slight hiss is heard, hence the name. Women will love this sweet cocktail.

• coffee liqueur – 15 ml;
• cocoa liqueur – 15 ml;
• cream liqueur – 15 ml;
• ground coffee – 1 gram;
• cubed ice – 200 grams.

Recipe: mix three liqueurs in a shaker with ice, pour the mixture through a strainer into a shot glass, sprinkle ground coffee on top.

4. "Energizer".

Energy drink based on coffee and Coca-Cola. It can raise your tone for a couple of hours. The taste is more or less normal, cola lovers will like it.

• water – 100 ml;
• cognac – 50 ml;
• Coca-Cola – 50 ml;
• ground coffee – 2 teaspoons;
• cream – 1 teaspoon;
• ice – 3-4 cubes.

Recipe: Prepare coffee, filter, cool to room temperature. Place ice in a glass, add cream, cognac and coffee. Lastly, pour in cold Coca-Cola (or Pepsi). Mix.

5. "Wedding"

The cocktail got its name thanks to the champagne in its composition. The low strength allows you to drink several servings at a time.

• champagne – 100 ml;
• strong coffee – 50 ml;
• sugar – 10 grams;
• tonic – 50 ml;
• ice - several cubes.

Recipe: brew coffee, add sugar, cool. Place ice in a glass, pour in tonic, champagne and coffee. Mix. Drink through a straw.

6. "Boombox".

An original combination of coffee and wine. After a few servings of cocktails, music starts playing in your head.

• vodka – 15 ml;
• plum wine – 15 ml;
• Americano – 15 ml.

Recipe: pour plum wine into a shot glass, place a layer of hot Americano with a cocktail spoon, and top with a layer of vodka. Drink in one gulp without stirring.

7. "Banana freshness."

The drink is quite refreshing and sweet. Cream whipped with banana gives an interesting “airy” flavor.

• coffee – 50 ml;
• cream – 50 ml;
• cognac – 25 ml;
• banana – 1 half;
• ice - 2 cubes.

Recipe: Blend cold coffee, cream, cognac and half a banana in a blender. Pour the mixture into a glass with ice. Sprinkle instant coffee on top and garnish with a banana slice.

8. “Mexican coffee.”

It is not difficult to guess that the composition includes tequila. It’s difficult to say whether this cocktail is drunk in Mexico, but it has fans in Russia.

• strong espresso – 100 ml;
• silver tequila – 25 ml;
• sugar – 10 grams;
• lime – 1 half;
• ice - 3 cubes.

Recipe: Add tequila and sugar to iced coffee. Squeeze the juice of half a lime, then add ice. Mix.

9. "Foamy Devil"

During the preparation of the cocktail, a lot of foam is released, the taste is hellish, but many people like it.

• beer – 200 ml;
• rum – 50 ml;
• coffee – 25 ml;
• ground black pepper – 1 pinch;
• salt – 1 pinch.

Recipe: Mix cold beer with coffee and rum in a glass. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and garnish with a slice of lemon.

10. “Black cuttlefish.”

Another homemade energy drink, but no longer based on vodka.

• vodka – 50 ml;
• cola – 200 ml;
• instant coffee – 2-3 grams.

Recipe: mix vodka and coffee in a glass. Add cola and stir again. Drink through a straw.

Instant coffee cocktails

You can also make very original drinks from instant coffee. It is worth highlighting a couple of them.

Black cuttlefish

The following products are used:

• 50 ml vodka;
• a glass of Coca-Cola;
• 5 g instant coffee.

The recipe requires the following steps:

1. Vodka is poured into the glass.
2. Instant coffee is added.
3. The components are mixed.
4. Then Coca-Cola is poured in.
5. The liquid is remixed.

Oleng

To get such an unusual cocktail, you need to prepare the following products:

• 800 ml of prepared coffee drink;
• 400 ml cream;
• 60 ml condensed milk;
• 3 tablespoons sugar;
• 2 teaspoons cardamom;
• a pinch of ground almonds;
• crushed ice

The cocktail is prepared according to the following scheme:

1. Mix sugar, cardamom and cream in a saucepan. The container is placed on the stove.
2. When the mixture begins to boil, turn off the fire.
3. Infuse the mixture with the lid closed for about a quarter of an hour.
4. Add almonds to it.
5. Place ice in glasses.
6. Then spread the heated cream.
7. Coffee is poured on top.

There are a huge number of coffee-based cocktails. Everyone can choose the most suitable one for themselves. The main thing is that when preparing them, follow all steps strictly according to the recipe. Otherwise, the desired result will not be achieved.

Carajillo

Carajillo is a passionate Spanish drink. It burns not only with high temperature, but also with alcohol previously added to the coffee. A mixture of brandy and rum - these are the ingredients from which carajillo is prepared. The base, of course, is coffee!

Proportions depend on personal preference.

Those who want to make a Carajillo cocktail add more brandy to the drink, the alcohol is set on fire along with the sugar dissolved in it, and only after that strong coffee is carefully poured into the glass.

Carajillo can be prepared using a coffee machine. For one serving you will need 30 ml of Brandy, 10 g. sugar, 1 espresso. Mix alcohol with sugar

and heat using the steam wand of the coffee machine. Light the flame and immediately extinguish it with pre-prepared espresso.