Many milk coffee lovers say that when they get tired of drinking ordinary lattes, they always want to try new but not weird flavors, and occasionally change their style. It's no coincidence that Front Street has learned another creative coffee - plum cream latte. It's easy and simple to make, and the taste is very surprising. Let's try it out today.
Old fans may still remember that Front Street once shared an article about "Huamei Coffee” teaching article, I made three kinds of sour and sweet creative special blends in one go. Because they were all black coffee, the error tolerance was extremely high. There are three things to pay special attention to when it comes to Front Street's plum cream latte: too many plums will steal the show, too much cream will make it greasy, and too strong coffee will overwhelm the flavor of the plums, so we have to weigh their roles carefully.
Plum sauce:
Take a plum and hold it in your mouth. The candied aroma will slowly spread on the tip of your tongue. Then the whole mouth will soon become sour, and the taste buds will start to replenish sweetness as if they have been activated. It allows you to feel the three flavors of sour, sweet, and salty at the same time, and experience the special aroma of plums. The taste is both exciting and rich, so in addition to daily snacks, it is also particularly suitable as a supporting role in providing flavor.
However, plums are pickled products after all and need to be soaked or cooked to release their aroma and salty and sour taste. Therefore, before we officially start making them, we have to solve the problem of how to obtain the "flavor of plums". In black coffee, you can soak it in water to get a rich fruity aroma. For latte, because you want to highlight the strong aroma of milk coffee, Front Street recommends directly adding plum syrup.
There is actually a certain skill involved in making plum syrup that tastes good. First, prepare the plums, rock sugar, and water in appropriate amounts according to 1:2:4. Front Street used 50g of plums, 100g of rock sugar, 200g of drinking water, and bought a fresh lemon.
Pour the water into the pot first, bring it to a boil, then add the plum blossoms and rock sugar into the pot, then keep the fire low and continue to bubble and simmer, paying attention to stirring to avoid burning the bottom, until only 1/3 of the water is left. We then cut half a lemon, squeeze the juice into the pot, and finally put it in the refrigerator after it cools down. It can be used when the sugar water becomes viscous.
Cream:
Because it is already blessed with milk, the cream here can not only provide a smooth taste, but also bring a higher body to the coffee, but it may also make the whole latte more greasy, so it is best to make it into an ice drink and control the amount to avoid feeling full after taking two sips.
Of course, if you really can't accept the high calories of cream, you can choose not to add it. If you do this, the plum latte will become more refreshing.
Italian coffee beans:
When considering coffee beans, Front Street recommends giving priority to a roasting degree that is neither too dark nor too light, because plums have a sour and salty tonality. If the bitterness is too strong, the taste will become very strong. Once light roasted beans are used, the sourness will become more obvious, there is less oil, and the characteristics of the beans themselves will be directly masked by other flavors.
Whenever a creative coffee with cream is reproduced, Front Street will first choose beans with a nutty aroma, because most of them are roasted in medium to medium dark, and the espresso after extraction can usually show flavors such as almonds, almonds, walnuts, fried melon seeds, peanuts, etc., with a strong aroma but not overpowering the taste.
If you are pursuing single-origin coffee, buy Front Street Brazilian Cerato and Front Street Queen's Manor; if you want balance and oil, you can choose Front Street Black Cocoa Basic Blend or Front Street Premium Blend. They both contain a large proportion of Brazilian coffee beans, so they provide a comfortable sweet and bitter taste and are extremely smooth in the mouth.
How to make plum cream latte?
Today’s plum cream latte uses Front Street Brazilian Cerato, an entry-level nut-flavored grain bean. Not only can it be brewed by hand, but its unique creamy peanut flavor can also be expressed using an espresso machine and a moka pot. In addition, when Front Street was searching the Internet, I found that there are two main methods of making it: the assembly method and the ice shaking method. Today we will make a cup of each of the two.
Assembly method - plum cream latte coffee:
The assembly method, as the name suggests, is to assemble all the materials.
Let's first find a 300~400ml cup, put 80g of ice cubes, scoop out two tablespoons (about 20g) of plum syrup and add it to the ice cubes.Then pour in 25ml of light cream and 150ml of fresh milk;
Use 19g of Front Street Brazilian Cerato coffee powder to extract 38g of coffee liquid in 28 to 32 seconds, pour it into the cup, stir and drink.
If you do this, the plum cream latte will have a slight salty and sour taste in the mouth, a bit like the flavor of sea salt. The aroma of milk and coffee fills the entire nasal cavity, sweet at first and then bitter. And because the concentration is added last, the espresso oil can be better retained on it, which makes it look better when taking photos.
Ice shaking method——Plum Cream Latte:
For the ice shaking method, you need to prepare a shaker, first put 80g of ice cubes into it, and then scoop two tablespoons of plum syrup into it;
Still use 19g of Front Street Brazilian Cerato coffee powder to extract 38g of coffee liquid, add it to the shaker together with 25ml of light cream, cover the lid and shake vigorously to create a dense foam;
Pour the shaken coffee liquid into the glass, and finally pour 150ml of fresh milk until the cup is about eighty-nine percent full.
This approach allows every element of the plum cream latte to be fully integrated, making it smoother to drink. The plum syrup not only brings a sweet and sour taste, but also makes the whole cup of coffee rich in layers, leaving a fragrant aroma in your mouth after drinking it.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
