Mocha coffee also comes in black and white. Which one do you prefer?

A few days ago, Dahua wrote an article about coffee titled "Are you still ordering coffee "blindly" when you go to a coffee shop? Reading this will make you a coffee expert" which attracted widespread attention to coffee. Many readers left messages saying they wanted to learn more about coffee. In the future, Dahua will use the most understandable language to systematically introduce various coffee knowledge to everyone from time to time, hoping that it will be helpful to everyone.

In the comments, many people mentioned Mocha coffee and have a special liking for it. Today we will talk about Mocha coffee systematically to understand everyone’s love for Mocha coffee.

The origin of the name of Mocha coffee

The English name of Mocha coffee is Café Mocha, which means chocolate coffee and is a variation of Italian latte.

In fact, in the earliest times, Mocha referred to a type of coffee bean, named after the famous Mocha Port. In the 15th century, the transportation industry in East Africa was very underdeveloped, but the most precious coffee beans in the world were produced here. These coffee beans were gathered in the Mocha Port in Yemen and shipped to Europe. The coffee beans produced in the origin of Mocha coffee during the Mocha Port period were called Mocha coffee beans.

Mocha coffee beans are very popular because they have a rich and layered taste: the aroma of red wine, wild flavor, dried fruit flavor, blueberry, grape, cinnamon, tobacco, sweet spices, log flavor, and even chocolate flavor.

What we call Mocha coffee today is actually Fancy Mocha coffee. With the birth of Italian fancy coffee, people tried to add chocolate to ordinary coffee to replace Mocha coffee. This is the Fancy Mocha that everyone can often drink now, which is a variation of Italian latte coffee.

Therefore, the so-called Mocha coffee is actually a general term for Mocha bean coffee and Fancy Mocha coffee. The Mocha coffee in today's coffee shops usually refers to what we call Fancy Mocha coffee, and the Mocha coffee we will refer to next is Fancy Mocha coffee.

The essence of Mocha coffee

Mocha coffee is made from espresso, milk, chocolate syrup and cream.

Mix 1/3 of Italian espresso with 2/3 of hot milk, and then add chocolate. Traditional mocha coffee uses chocolate syrup as the raw material, and more people who make mocha at home use chocolate powder instead of chocolate syrup. There is no milk foam on the top of mocha, but fresh cream instead, and some cocoa powder or cinnamon powder will be sprinkled on the fresh cream as embellishment.

It must be noted that Mocha is really a sweet coffee, so if you go to a coffee shop and want to drink a cup of sweet coffee, Mocha is a good choice. Moreover, hot mocha and iced mocha have different flavors. Dahua prefers iced mocha.

Mocha coffee comes in black and white

Many people know that mocha contains chocolate sauce, but in fact, mocha has different names and tastes depending on the different chocolates added. Adding dark chocolate sauce is called mocha coffee, adding white chocolate sauce is called white chocolate mocha (White Café Mocha), and there is another one that adds half dark chocolate sauce and half white chocolate sauce, called "Zebras", which is sometimes comically called "Tuxedo Mocha" (Tuxedo Mocha).

White chocolate mocha is sweeter than mocha because white chocolate is very sweet.

The correct way to open a cup of mocha

If a cup of mocha is served to you, how should you drink it? This is a question many people have.

In fact, Mocha is a kind of coffee that can have many flavors and layers.

First, you can use a coffee spoon to scoop a little cream on the mocha coffee and eat it. Then you can taste the blend of cream and chocolate powder or cinnamon powder on your taste buds. The sweet and mellow cream takes over first, and the aftertaste is a light creamy chocolate flavor.

Then lightly skim off the cream and stir the bottom of the coffee gently, because the chocolate sauce will be slightly insoluble, and it will blend more fully after stirring. At this time, drink the coffee at the bottom of the mocha, and feel the taste buds teasing each other with espresso, milk and chocolate.

Finally, stir the remaining cream with the coffee at the bottom and taste it. At this time, you can feel the smoothness that the cream brings to the coffee.

Are you ready to taste the different levels of flavor of mocha?

The connection and difference between mocha coffee, latte and cappuccino

As I mentioned in the previous part of the article, Mocha is actually a variation of Italian latte. Add chocolate sauce to latte and squeeze cream on the top to make a cup of Mocha.

Some places in Europe and the Middle East use Moccaccino to describe Italian latte with cocoa or chocolate. In the United States, Moccaccino refers to Italian cappuccino with chocolate.

How to make a cup of authentic mocha coffee at home

There is a little trick for making mocha coffee at home to fully blend the chocolate sauce into the coffee, that is, pour the espresso into the cup first, then add the chocolate sauce and stir thoroughly until there is no chocolate sauce residue at the bottom. If you pour the chocolate sauce first and then pour the espresso and stir, it is easy to cause the chocolate sauce to stick to the cup. If you first pour the espresso and milk and then pour the chocolate sauce and stir, there will be too much liquid in the cup, causing the liquid to splash out of the cup when stirring.

After mixing the espresso and chocolate sauce, add milk. Be careful not to fill the cup, leave some space for the cream. Finally, squeeze the whipped cream onto the coffee and sprinkle some chocolate powder on it. A cup of mocha coffee is ready.

A cup of Mocha coffee has a very high degree of fusion. I hope that after learning more about Mocha, everyone can better appreciate the multi-layered flavor of Mocha.

If you have any questions about coffee or food, you can leave a message to Dahua below the article. I will give you systematic and comprehensive answers in future articles. I also hope that everyone can love food more and let food bring fun to life.