You should not underestimate the art of making coffee as most people think it is just about pouring hot water in the coffee grind. Well, that’s where you are making an average coffee. You should try different coffee methods to find out what kind of coffee you really prefer. Choosing the right coffee beans, accessories and procedure is crucial. If you want to have that classic cafe’ coffee taste in your coffee made at home, here are some pointers which you should remember.
Spice it up with spices
To add hard and spicy flavour to your morning coffee which also comes with calorie-free, it can be a perfect way to start your day. You can add different spices that you have in your kitchen. In Mexico, people add cinnamon in their coffee whereas in Ethiopia ginger is usually added in the cup. You can also try your coffee with apple pie spice, pumpkin pie spice, clove, nutmeg, black pepper, and cardamom.
Sweeten up your coffee
Those who like their cup of coffee a little bit sweeter as well as flavoured at the same time, homemade syrups can do the magic for you. Making your own syrup has its own benefits apart from sweetening up your coffee and turning it much better in taste. Add it in your morning cup of coffee or use It for night cocktails. Well to make this, you need an equal amount of water and sugar, add orange peel or spice and wait to get it thicker for 20 minutes.
Add homemade creams
To avoid any kind of funny taste that your store-bought creams add in your good tasting coffee and ruing it, you can make it own as well. With that, you also control the quality as well as sugar. To make the homemade cream, you need to add an equal amount of sweetened condensed milk, whole milk with the few drops of your favourite extracts. And here your homemade cream is ready. You can do an experiment, add chocolate raspberry, chocolate, coconut, etc as per your liking.
Make your own PSL
PSL, however, stays for a few months but it can do serious damage to the wallet. PSL or Pumpkin spice latte can be made at your home as well. Also making this fresh coffee with a new flavour, you can control the sugar and add nutrients. To make the pumpkin spice in your kitchen, you are going to need 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 2 teaspoon ground ginger, ½ teaspoon of mace, nutmegs, and cloves.
Add extracts
Adding extracts in your coffee can give you a new taste with a blast of freshness. However, it depends on how strong you want the flavours, you can add the extract at the time of brewing or you can directly pour it in your cup. During the buying of the extract, there will be imitation extract and pure extracts like options you will notice. To know what flavour you want, you can do the experiments. There is a huge range like maple, chocolate, vanilla, peppermint, orange, raspberry, coconut, etc.