Without professional equipment, you can easily make a cup of cappuccino with dense milk foam at home with just a cup.

Have you ever had this experience: when you are drinking coffee in a cafe, you like to order a cup of cappuccino, which is topped with a layer of dense milk foam, which is particularly delicious? It is more troublesome to DIY at home. Should you buy a more advanced coffee machine that can also make milk foam, or a special machine for making milk foam? Manual or automatic?

In fact, for most people, making coffee like cappuccino at home is often done on a whim, so buying a milk frothing machine will probably be left unused. Here, Xiaolu teaches you a way to make milk froth without professional tools.

1. Choose whole milk, which makes it easier to produce foam. For coffee, I use instant coffee directly. Choose black coffee, without any other additives, pure coffee powder.

2. Then pour in hot water to dissolve the coffee powder, about half a cup of water

3. Pour an appropriate amount of milk into the cup, preferably one with a lid for easy shaking. As for milk, add the right amount based on your needs. I don’t like milk very much, so I add a little less. Then cover the lid and shake vigorously until bubbles appear. If you have an egg beater, you can also use it to stir.

4. After shaking, heat in the microwave for 30 seconds.

5. Finally, pour the milk into the coffee and a cup of foamed cappuccino is ready.

It’s super simple, but the milk foam produced in this way is not very dense, so you need more practice.