What better way to relax after a brutally long first week, than sleeping in Sunday morning and making yourself a Iced Grande Creme Brulee Latte to wake up to.
Ingredients
- 2 scoops of freshly ground dark roast espresso beans
- 1 ounce of Torani Creme Brulee flavour syrup
- 2 ounces of filtered water
- 2 cups of cold skim milk
- handfull of crushed ice
- (espresso machine)
- (martini shaker)
- (sexy looking mug)
Directions (followed by my expert advice)
- Press ground espresso into handle of espresso machine (The key is to compact the espresso both hard and evenly)
- Fill the espresso machine with 2 ounces of water and pull two shots of espresso (Use the best quality filtered water you have available)
- Immediately after the shots are pulled, mix espresso with 1 ounce of flavour syrup (Mixing the syrup at this step ensures even flavour distribution)
- Add 2 cups of cold skim milk to a martini shaker filled with crushed ice (Shaking in ice versus pouring over ice cubes has a number of advantages, quicker and more thorough cooling, and less dilution from the melting ice)
- Add the 2 shots of flavoured espresso to the martini shaker (If you add the espresso before the milk, you would melt too much of the ice!)
- Cap and shake vigorously (Until your hand is cold)
- Decant your tasty beverage into a sexy mug (If shaking was vigorous enough, there will be a nice layer of foam on top, rarely seen in store bought iced lattes! As for the sexy mug, appearance/presentation is key. It just tastes better.)
