Mocha
The difference between a café mocha and a good one at home is what it is made of. Syrup adds sweetness and nothing else; chocolate melted into hot milk adds body, bitterness and a long chocolate finish. It takes exactly three minutes longer.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 10 min
- Total
- 15 min
- Servings
- 2
- Level
- Easy
- Per serving
- 290 kcal
Ingredients
Makes: 2 glasses of 250 ml
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Method
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Step 1: Melt the chocolate in milk
Warm 100 ml of the milk with the chopped chocolate over low heat, stirring, until smooth. Do not boil it: chocolate turns grainy in boiling milk.
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Step 2: Add the rest of the milk
Pour in the remaining milk and bring the mixture to 60–65 °C. Add sugar if needed — dark chocolate usually asks for some.
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Step 3: Pull the espresso
Thirty millilitres into each glass. Hot coffee at the bottom marries with the chocolate milk instead of separating from it.
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Step 4: Combine
Pour the chocolate milk over the coffee, leaving 2 cm at the top, and stir — unlike a latte, a mocha is not layered.
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Step 5: Finish with cream
Spoon whipped cream on top and scatter grated chocolate. Cream holds for five to seven minutes, so add it just before serving.
Tips & variations
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Tip
Use chocolate between 55% and 70%: milk chocolate is cloying, and 85% turns the drink so bitter that the sugar needed to fix it defeats the point.
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Tip
Cocoa works too: 2 tsp of cocoa and 2 tsp of sugar per cup, but mix it to a paste with a spoonful of hot milk first or it stays lumpy.
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Variation
Mint mocha: warm the milk with three or four fresh mint leaves and strain before adding the chocolate.
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Storage
The chocolate milk can be made ahead and kept two days in the fridge, reheated by the cup. The finished drink does not keep.
Nutrition
| 1 serving | Whole dish 2 servings | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 290 kcal | 580 kcal |
| Protein | 8 g | 16 g |
| Fat | 15 g | 30 g |
| Carbohydrates | 30 g | 60 g |
Approximate values calculated from standard ingredient data.
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