How do you make a cappuccino, iced or hot?

An iced cappuccino is built from espresso, cold milk, and cold milk foam, layered in that order so the drink stays cold and the foam holds. The traditional hot version uses three equal parts: one-third espresso, one-third hot milk, and one-third hot milk foam. Even without professional equipment, the drink can be made at home.

The name Cappuccino comes from Italian: cappuccio means hood, and Capuchin refers to the Franciscan order, whose brown robes and pointed hats matched the color of coffee with milk. Foam comes cappuccino wet or dry. What is a dry cappuccino? Its foam is greater in volume, holds shape longer, and tastes dense; wet foam is smaller, more fluid, and smooth.

After the arrival of Major Heat, the temperature climbs higher day by day. At times like this, if you have a glass of iced coffee in hand, the summer heat instantly fades away. This time, Front Street Coffee wants to talk about an iced cappuccino you can make at home: first tracing the evolution of the name cappuccino from Italian to the coffee cup, then breaking down the complete process of making an iced cappuccino, including the extraction parameters for espresso, the method for frothing cold milk foam, and the order in which milk, coffee, and milk foam are combined. Next, it will explain the flavor direction of this iced drink once it hits the palate, and recommend the Sunflower Warm Sun blend beans used by Front Street Coffee for testing, so coffee lovers who want to try it themselves have something to go on.

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Once the Major Heat solar term arrives, the sun overhead works even harder. In this kind of weather, if you can hold a glass of iced coffee, the sense of coolness is simply hard to describe. In this article, Front Street Coffee will show everyone how to make an iced cappuccino—an iced milk coffee that can be easily made at home even without professional equipment.

What is cappuccino coffee?

The word Cappuccino comes from Italian. Cappuccio in Italian refers to a hood. Capuchin means the Catholic Order of St. Francis. Back when the order went to Italy to preach, the locals saw the friars wearing dark brown robes and pointed little hats, so they used Cappuccino to refer to them.

As for the birth of cappuccino coffee, it was because someone added milk to espresso and found that the color was very close to the robes of the Franciscan order, so they had a flash of inspiration, added milk foam on top of the coffee to make it look like a little pointed hat, and named it Cappuccino.

Traditional hot cappuccino is made up of three equal parts: one-third espresso, one-third hot milk, and one-third hot milk foam. Cappuccino milk foam can be divided into dry and wet types. Dry milk foam is greater in volume, can hold its shape for a longer time, and has a dense mouthfeel; wet milk foam is smaller in volume and more fluid, does not hold its shape for long, but when drunk it is dense yet smooth.

How do you make an iced cappuccino?

Espresso part: Front Street Coffee chose Sunflower Warm Sun coffee beans, a blend of Honduras Sherry barrel and Yirgacheffe natural Red Cherry, for extraction, with parameters of 20 grams of grounds extracting 35 grams of coffee liquid, taking 28 seconds. (Friends who do not have an espresso machine at home can replace it with capsule coffee, instant black coffee, or individually packaged espresso liquid.)

Iced milk foam part: A milk frother can be used to froth the milk foam, but this time Front Street Coffee used a French press. The operation is very simple: pour chilled fresh milk into the French press (or milk frother) to half its height, then pump back and forth about 20 times, frothing until the container is about eight-tenths full, and you will see it filled with marshmallow-like milk foam.

Final assembly: Pour the iced milk foam and milk into the prepared cup. First use a spoon to hold back the milk foam, letting the milk in the French press (milk frother) pour into the cup until it is two-thirds full, then pour in the extracted 35 grams of espresso, and finally fill the cup with milk foam. If you like, you can also sprinkle some chocolate powder or cinnamon powder, and the layering of the whole cup of coffee will be noticeably enhanced.

How does an iced cappuccino taste?

The espresso extracted by Front Street Coffee this time has a relatively clear liqueur chocolate note. After blending with iced milk and iced milk foam, it is dense and smooth on the palate, full of the sweet fragrance of milk like marshmallow.

The coffee part presents a fairly full body, with a rich and lasting wine aroma, accompanied by cocoa flavor, and in the finish there is also the roasted aroma of toasted hazelnuts.

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The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.