Coffee Creations: 90 Delicious Recipes For The Perfect Cup

Description

Coffee Creations is a comprehensive and foolproof guide to every coffee beverage you might ever have contemplated making at home and some you haven't. Top barista Celeste Wong provides friendly and accessible advice on equipment, how to choose between beans, pods and instant coffee, as well as which roasts and flavours to select to maximise on flavour and suit personal preferences. This is followed by a complete collection of 90 recipes, for throughout the day and across the year.

Recipes are divided into chapters including:

- Master your 'traditional' barista creations at home: cappucino, latte, flat white, macchiato and cortado.
- Hot days: iced lattes, cold brews and granita.
- Nights: espresso martinis and other cocktails.
- Seasonal favourites: gingerbread lattes and dirty chais.
- Traditions: Turkish coffees and the ANZ flat white.
- Wellbeing: banana espresso smoothie and turmeric lattes.
- Unicorn creations: dalgonas and coffee jelly whipped latte.
- Food: flat white cookies, espresso energy balls and mug mocha brownies.
- Syrups, sauces & icings: make your own coffee liqueur and espresso butter.

About the Author

With over 15 years in the specialty coffee industry, Celeste Wong has honed her skills as a barista in some of the world’s top cafés, earning recognition along the way as one of London’s top five baristas by the Financial Times. She has documented her experiences along the way on The Girl in the Café blog, the title coming from customers who didn’t know her name but would regularly stop her on the street, recognising her as the person who made their morning coffee every day. Her journey has led her from New Zealand to Melbourne, and finally to London and Lisbon where she’s made both cities her home. Having worked with the likes of Guinness, Baileys, Mazda, Bumble Business, and Jamie Oliver, she’s also hosted numerous London Coffee Festival Coffee Masters along with TV spots covering all things coffee and lifestyle on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen Live and NBC’s The Today Show. This is her first drinks book.