Here’s a wonderful way to start Cinco de Mayo…
You can move on to ‘spicier’ things once you wake up.
Mexican La Isla Mocha
1 1/2 cups strong coffee
4 teaspoons chocolate syrup
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 cup whipping cream
- Mix Whipping cream, 1/4 teaspoon of the cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar.
- Whip until you have soft peaks
- Place the last 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon into coffee, and stir
- Pour coffee into cups, stir to mix in chocolate syrup
- Top with whipped cream mixture.
Mexican Coffee
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
4 scoops of ground coffee beans, Columbian or other variety – a coffee scoop is equivalent to a rounded tablespoon
1 scoop (rounded tablespoon) cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon – eyeball it, plus a sprinkle for garnish
4 jiggers (1 ounce shots) coffee liqueur (recommended: Kahlua)
1 canister whipped cream with spray top
- Place coffee, cocoa and cinnamon in a filter for coffee brewing.
- Make 4 cups of brewed mocha-cinnamon coffee.
- Pour a shot of coffee liquor in the bottom of a coffee mug.
- Pour in a serving of brewed mocha-cinnamon Mexican coffee.
- Top off the mug with a generous swirl of whipped cream and garnish with another sprinkle of cinnamon.
- Repeat for desired number of mugfuls!
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