Gingerbread, Chocolate, Spicy... Recipes for Winter Coffees

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fragrant with warming spices, sweet, and comforting, coffee with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and nutmeg is the perfect idea for an autumn-winter treat that will give you a real boost, even on the gloomiest and coldest day. How do you make gingerbread coffee? It's a piece of cake! You'll need a coffee maker, coffee, aromatic spices, and a few minutes of your time. Discover our tried and tested gingerbread coffee recipe.

Ingredients:

• 3 teaspoons of ground coffee
• 1 cup of water
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 0.5 teaspoon of honey
• 2 tablespoons of sweetened condensed milk
• a pinch of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom

Preparation:

• Measure 3 teaspoons of coffee from a coffee container.
• Prepare a coffee infusion in a French press.
• Remove the plunger from the cafetière and add the measured coffee. Pour in boiling water and leave for about 5 minutes.
• Pour the coffee into a saucepan, add sugar, honey, and warming spices. Heat the drink on a low hob for about 3 minutes, being careful not to let it boil.
• Remove the pot from the hob and pour in the milk. Stir.
• Pour the ready gingerbread coffee into a large cup or mug.

On long, autumn and winter evenings, nothing lifts your spirits quite like a wonderfully fragrant, thick, hot, and creamy coffee with chocolate. See for yourself how pleasantly warming and invigorating this aromatic coffee and chocolate drink is.

Ingredients:

• 3 teaspoons of freshly ground coffee
• 150 ml of water
• 100 ml of milk
• 50 g of milk chocolate
• a pinch of cinnamon and cocoa

Preparation:

• Heat 50 ml of milk in a saucepan.
• Break the chocolate into squares and add to the hot milk. Stirring constantly, cook the milk with chocolate on a low hob until the chocolate is completely melted.
• Froth the remaining 50 ml of milk in a coffee machine or with a milk frother.
• Prepare an infusion, which will be the base of your chocolate winter coffee, in a coffee brewing jug.
• Pour the freshly brewed coffee into cups. Top it up with hot milk and chocolate. Spoon the frothed milk on top. Sprinkle the finished drink with a pinch of cinnamon and cocoa.

Turkish coffee brewed with chilli is a sharp, distinctly flavoured, wonderfully warming and invigorating drink, perfect for long, winter evenings. Adding chilli and cocoa to coffee not only diversifies its taste but also enriches the coffee drink with valuable nutrients for our health. Turkish coffee, for which you need a cezve resembling a small jug with a long handle, is simple to prepare, but requires a little patience, as it needs to be heated several times. Warming coffee with chilli is an ideal choice for people who love very aromatic, intense, and strong coffee drinks.

Ingredients:

• 2 teaspoons of freshly ground coffee
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 100 ml of cold water
• 1 teaspoon of cocoa
• a pinch of chilli

Preparation:

• Pour the ground coffee into the cezve, add very cold water. Add sugar.
• Place the cezve on the hob and start heating on a low flame. You must constantly monitor the coffee's temperature to prevent it from boiling.
• When foam appears on the coffee, remove the cezve from the heat and wait a few minutes.
• Add chilli and sieved cocoa to the cezve with coffee, put it back on the hob and heat again. Repeat this three times.
• After the last heating of the coffee with cocoa, wait a few minutes for the grounds to settle at the bottom.
• Pour the ready drink into a coffee cup.

Irish Coffee, which is coffee brewed with brown sugar and Irish whiskey, decorated with freshly whipped cream, is a delicious, simple to prepare, and warming drink. Just the ticket for winter afternoons! Learn how to brew Irish coffee.

Ingredients:

• 2 teaspoons of coffee beans
• 100 ml of water
• 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
• 30 ml of whiskey
• 1/4 cup of lightly whipped 30% cream

Preparation:

• Grind the coffee beans in a coffee grinder.
• Pour water into the lower part of an aluminium or stainless steel Moka pot.
• Place the filter basket on the water reservoir. Add the freshly ground coffee. Do not tamp it down, just gently tap the filter against the kitchen counter so the coffee settles well.
• Attach the upper part of the Moka pot, where the ready coffee collects. Screw the device together.
• Brewing coffee in a Moka pot is really simple. Place the Moka pot on a gas hob, electric hob, or even an induction hob (at FormAdore you'll find a wide selection of induction Moka pots). Wait a few minutes for the boiling water to create pressure and pass from the lower reservoir, through the filter, to the upper part of the coffee maker.
• Immediately after hearing the characteristic gurgling sound, turn off the hob and remove the Moka pot from the burner. Aromatic and intensely flavoured Moka pot coffee is ready!
• Pour hot coffee into a warmed stemmed glass and add sugar. Stir with a coffee spoon until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add whiskey, stir again. Decorate the Irish coffee with whipped cream.
• This prepared coffee should be drunk through the layer of whipped cream, which is best prepared using a milk frother.

Pumpkin Spice Latte

Pumpkin Spice Latte is a sweet and aromatic coffee drink with pumpkin puree and a generous amount of warming spices. Pumpkin Latte is a delicious warming coffee, which, topped with a layer of whipped cream, will become an exquisite dessert. How to make pumpkin and spice latte in the comfort of your own home?

Ingredients:

• double espresso
• 125 ml of milk
• 2 tablespoons of pumpkin puree
• 2 teaspoons of maple syrup
• 0.5 teaspoon of cinnamon
• a pinch of: ginger, nutmeg, ground cloves
• optional: whipped cream

Preparation:

• Heat the milk with pumpkin puree, maple syrup, and warming spices in a saucepan.
• Blend the heated mixture with a blender until the pumpkin milk is lightly frothed.
• Strain the pumpkin milk through a sieve, blend again with a blender, and pour into a mug.
• Brew a double espresso in a coffee machine. Pour the coffee into the cup with the pumpkin mixture.
• You can decorate the finished latte with a layer of whipped cream and dust with cinnamon.

The weather outside isn't exactly spoiling us, so today, get yourself the essential coffee accessories such as: jugs and coffee makers, Moka pots, and beautiful cups, so you can enjoy the taste of a warming coffee drink every day.