HOW TO PREPARE MOCACCINO AT HOME: ALL THE WAYS TO MAKE IT AS GOOD AS AT THE BAR

At the bar or at home, for Italians breakfast is still one of the most important moments today: a hot drink accompanied by a sweet, a ‘vice’ to carve out a moment to start the day in the right way.

In addition to coffee and cappuccino, classic par excellence of the Italian breakfast, there are also other alternatives such as mocaccino . 

It is a delicious hot drink with a coffee, chocolate and milk flavour , which is frothed and remains foamy like that of a normal cappuccino. It can be enriched according to personal taste, with spices, cocoa powder or cream, but also chocolate flakes or sprinkles.

Mocaccino is a drink that is generally ordered at the bar, but nothing prevents you from preparing it comfortably at home : let’s see how!

What is mocha

The mocaccino is the perfect match between the taste of coffee , the foaminess of cappuccino , and the gluttony of chocolate .

It could be considered a dessert on its own, perfect for breakfast or for a more delicious after-meal. 

In fact, you can use whipped milk as in a classic cappuccino, but many people use whipped cream instead of whipped milk. Obviously, for intolerant or vegan people, mocaccino is also excellent using milk of vegetable origin (especially hazelnut milk, which goes well with chocolate notes).

Another variant is proposed by those who use ground cinnamon to decorate, to give a more spicy taste to their mocaccino, instead of cocoa powder, who instead use melted chocolate or honey.

Now let’s see the basic recipe, the one for a classic mocaccino. For each type of customization we have all the time we want, to indulge ourselves in experimenting with new combinations.

How to prepare a perfect Mocaccino

To obtain a slap-up Mocaccino, the procedure is very simple and fast . First of all, you need to get very few and simple ingredients:

• Chocolate (it can be, according to your preferences: dark, milk, but also with the white one it will give an absolutely unique aroma to your Mocaccino)
• Milk (it can also be vegetable, for intolerant or vegan people)
• Coffee
• A large cup (or a glass, if we want to obtain a more scenographic effect also visually)

First Step: Chocolate

Completely melt the chocolate together with a part of the milk until creamy. You can do it in a double boiler over the heat, or in the microwave, the important thing is that the result is not completely liquid but remains a thicker cream.

Pour the mixture into the cup or glass so that it settles to the bottom.

Second Step: milk

Heat the remaining milk and froth it with a special milk frother until frothy.

Milk frothers are often included in most coffee machines, but if you don’t have one, you can use electric whisks or an immersion blender: you just need to be more patient and get the hot milk frothing in two or three minutes, or in any case until you start to see foam forming on the surface.

Third Step: coffee

Prepare the espresso.

You can prepare an espresso coffee traditionally made with the moka pot, but it is also possible to make an excellent espresso coffee for this recipe, simply and quickly, directly with the coffee machine, with the Dolce Vita coffee capsules (compatible with Dolce Gusto® and A Modo Mio®)

Fourth Step: combine the ingredients

Pour the coffee into the cup, then gently and carefully add the frothed milk and its foam, so that it does not go too far.

At this point we can sweeten as desired, if it is desired, with white sugar, brown sugar, or honey, but also sprinkle with cocoa powder or cinnamon. You can also decide to decorate (and enrich) with a few puffs of whipped cream.

Mocaccino in capsules: the convenient and tasty alternative!

For those who don’t have time or the ingredients available, the alternative are the Mokaccino DolceVita capsules : – Nespresso® compatible mokaccino capsules – A Modo Mio® compatible mokaccino capsules – Firma® compatible mokaccino capsules – Uno System® compatible mokaccino capsules – Espresso Point® compatible mokaccino capsules – Dolce Gusto® compatible mokaccino capsules

Thanks to the Mokaccino DolceVita capsules, it is possible to enjoy all the flavor of a delicious mocaccino in a few seconds to recharge your batteries with energy and taste and start the day off right: all you need is an ordinary coffee machine and you’re done!