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Easy Peasy Coffee Recipe

No elaborate plunger or frother goes into this simple-to-churn coffee recipe. All you need to do is to shake the ingredients in a bottle to give it a whipped coffee feei, then pour in the milk. And with a few deft strokes of a tooth pick, voila - there you also get a decorative coffee!
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 2 mins
Total Time 12 mins
Course Beverages, Breakfast, High Tea
Cuisine American, English, Indian
Servings 2 persons

Equipment

  • Shaker, glass bottle, or even a PET bottle will work
  • 2-3 coffee cups

Ingredients
  

Coffee Recipe Ingredients

  • 6 tsp sugar
  • 3 tsp instant coffee powder
  • 6 tsp water
  • ½ litre milk (boiled)

Instructions
 

Coffee Recipe Method

  • Spoon in the sugar, coffee powder and water in the glass bottle, close it well and shake it thoroughly with your hands, for 10 minutes (as seen in the video)
  • Arrange 3-4 coffee cups on a table or kitchen top, spoon the "shaken" coffee lather into the cups leaving a bit of lather behind in the bottle for using as topping later.
  • Simultaneously boil the milk and pour the milk - preferably from a decent height of say half a foot - into the cups containing the "shaken" / frothy coffee lather. That's about all - there couldn't be an easier way to make good frothy coffee!
  • Decorate the coffee using the following tips:
    1. Make concentric circles over the coffee, with chocolate syrup if you have some handy. Use a toothpick to draw lines from the inner sides of the cup (left, right, top & bottom) to the centre. Use angular strokes between the four lines (left, right, top & bottom) making it a total of 8 short drawn lines.
    2. Drop little dots of chocolate syrup across the coffee lather topping. Use a toothpick to draw lines to join the dots and then give it a curvy twist at the tip, to form a leaf-like decor. There you have some attractive coffee to show off to family and friends!
    3. Pour milk into the coffee from the one side of the cup (close to the rim/edge), in order to let the milk flow in milky white concentric rivulets into the coffee content in the cup. This method, in my view, looks the prettiest of all coffee decor ideas.
  • If there is no chocolate syrup in stock, use the remaining coffee lather in the bottle to top up the coffee in the cup and go beserk with toothpicks on customising your own coffee.
  • You may use a flavouring of cinnamon or chocolate powder to give it a feel of a cappuccino recipe, without the milk foam.

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