Cascara Coconut Milk Latte – Try This New Flavored Latte!

A cascara coconut milk latte is a flavored latte that is tasty and delicious and very different from any other flavored latte. It’s a coffee beverage flavored with the outer shell, the skin of coffee cherries.

It’s a flavored latte that is very easy to make too, and I’ll show you how to in this article.

Keep reading for the details!

Cascara Coconut Milk Latte

Cascara coconut milk latte is taste, delicious and a very different flavored latte than you have tried before.

Like all lattes, it’s made with an espresso and steamed milk, more precisely, steamed coconut milk, using an espresso to milk ratio of 1:2.

The cascara, which is the outer shell of the coconut cherry, the husk is made into a syrup. Making your own cascara syrup is easy and can be used for more than making your coffee as it goes incredibly well in cocktails and pancakes.

Let’s get with making that rather tasty coconutmilk latte variation!

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Cascara Coconut Milk Latte Starbucks Recipe

Instead of replicating the cascara coconut milk latte recipe from Starbucks, we are going to go one step further, and make it better, and make the flavors really pop!

Even though you can find cascara syrup without too much difficulty it is just as easy to make your own, which is something that we, at Latte Love Brew encourage you to do as you have full control over the ingredients and can make all natural.

You can also make a sugar-free version should you want to.

Let’s get making this tasty cascara coconut milk latte recipe!

Cascara Coconut Milk Latte Ingredients

Keeping your ingredients as close as you can to what Starbucks uses will help you to replicating the drink that is sold in their store.

To make it better than what you get at Starbucks, you need to use better quality ingredients. If your aim is to replicate what is sold by them, use their coconut milk and their Starbucks espresso roast coffee beans.

Here are the ingredients that you will need:

• Whole bean dark roast coffee.
• Coconut milk.
• Cascara.
• Cascara sugar.
• Bottled water or filtered water.

Keeping your ingredients as close as you can to what Starbucks uses will help you to replicating the drink that is sold in their store.

To make it better than what you get at Starbucks, you need to use better quality ingredients. If your aim is to replicate what is sold by them, use their coconut milk and their Starbucks espresso roast coffee beans.

Here are the ingredients that you will need:

• Whole bean dark roast coffee.
• Coconut milk.
• Cascara.
• Cascara sugar.
• Bottled water or filtered water.

The coffee that you make is 98% water. The better the quality of your water, the better your coffee will be.

Even if your coffee machine has a built-in water filter, still use filtered water or bottled water. Filtering your water by using a water filter jug ensures that no calcium or limescale build up will happen inside your machine; at the very least it will reduce the formation of mineral build up in your machine.

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Whole Espresso Coffee Beans

The following espresso beans are what I consider to be the best for making a cascara coconut milk latte:

• Lifeboost Organic Espresso Coffee Beans.
• Blueprint Coffee Penrose Blend.
• Coffee Bros Espresso Roast.
• Sightglass Organic Crown Point.
• Red Bay Coffee Brazilian Cake Lady.

Using Starbucks espresso roast is perfectly acceptable and ideal if your aim is to match what Starbucks have in their coffee shops.

Sumatra Coconut Milk

This is where you have the choice of matching what is sold at Starbuck outlets or going one step better.

Starbucks will tell you in all their literature online and in house that their coconut milk is a single origin coconut milk with the coconuts sourced from Sumatra, Indonesia.

While this is true, absolutely true it is not organic coconut milk or purely coconut milk as there are a lot of additives.

While it is a bonafide non-dairy alternative that is suitable for vegans and vegetarians, it does contain cane sugar, water, coconut water concentrate, coconut cream, sea salt, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavors, gellan gum, xanthan gum, carrageenan, vitamin D2, Vitamin A, guar gum.

It’s not exactly real food.

To be clear, you do need to use barista coconut milk as alternative milk in their natural state are difficult to steam and froth.

You can make your own by adding a tiny amount, 1/8th to ¼ of a teaspoon of gellan gum and/or xanthan gum, which are emulsifiers and stabilizers.

Making your own barista alternative milk ensures that you have full control of the ingredients and cut out all the extra unnecessary ones.

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Cascara Coconut Milk Latte Recipe Instructions

Let’s get making an amazing and delicious cascara coconut milk latte.

Let’s start by making your cascara syrup, which can be used for coffee, cocktails, pancakes, drizzled over ice cream and to make tasty soda drinks.

How To Make Your Cascara Syrup

Use one cup of bottled water and one cup of cascara sugar.

Add both ingredients to a sauce pan and stir well to ensure they are well mixed together while cold.

Add to your water and sugar a tablespoon of cascara and mix well. Gently heat your mixture at a low heat until it is simmering and let it simmer for 5 minutes and then let it cool naturally.

Taste test your cascara syrup to find out if the flavor is hitting the perfect spot for you.

If it is not, leave your solution to further extract the flavor from the cascara. Check every few hours and taste test.

When your syrup has that perfect flavor, filter out your cascara by using a cheesecloth. You may need to filter for a second time to remove all sediment.

Store in a glass bottle with an airtight lid.

How To Make The Perfect Espresso For Your Flavored Latte

Making the perfect espresso for your flavored latte is very easy. The key to making a great espresso is in the beans that you use, your equipment and your technique.

Equipment needed:

• Ceramic flat burr coffee grinder.
• Digital coffee scale.

These use of these two pieces of equipment help to get the perfect shot due to getting you a high quality and consistent grind size and precision when it comes to getting the perfect dose to use.

Start by weighing your whole coffee beans and weigh 15 grams of coffee per shot. The coffee to water ratio we are using is the standard 1:2 ratio.

Grind your coffee beans to a fine grind size that is like sand. 200 microns is a good size.

Add your coffee grounds to your portafilter and tamp well with an even 30 kg of pressure.

Pull your shot and check the brew time. When you pull your shot, have your digital scale below your coffee cup and tare your scale.

Your shot should weigh 30 grams and take 25 seconds to brew. There is an allowance of 5 seconds either side of the 25-second brew time.

The closer to the 25 seconds, the more delicious your espresso will be.

If your shot takes too long, more than 30 seconds, your grind size is likely to be too small. Adjust your grind size and make it a little larger.

If your brew time is too short, it is likely that your grind size is too large. Adjust your grind size and make it smaller.

When you have the perfect shot. Add a tablespoon of cascara syrup. Steam your coconut milk and add twice as much steamed coconut milk as there is espresso.

On top of your latte, decorate in a straight line with a sprinkle of cascara sugar and cascara.

Serve and enjoy.

Cascara Coconut Milk Latte Caffeine

A cascara coconut milk latte has 75 mg of caffeine per shot of espresso used to make the beverage.

Cascara Coconut Milk Latte Calories

A cascara coconut milk latte has a calorie count that ranges from 100 calories to 240 as follows:

• Short 8 Oz (240 ml): 100 calories.
• Tall 12 Oz (360 ml): 150 calories.
• Grande 16 Oz (480 ml): 200 calories.
• Venti 20 Oz (600 ml): 240 calories.

Frequently Asked Questions About Cascara Coconut Milk Latte

What Is A Coconut Cascara Latte?

A coconut cascara latte at Starbucks is an espresso-based drink with steamed coconut milk in an espresso to coconut milk ratio of 1:2 and topped with cascara sugar.

Is Coconut Milk Good In Lattes?

Yes, in my opinion, coconut milk in a latte or as it is better known, a coconutmilk latte is a delicious and very healthy latte with additional benefits from the nutrients and healthy fats of MCT, Medium Chain Triglycerides.

What Is The Coconut Milk At Starbucks?

Starbucks coconut milk is a delicious and high quality single origin coconut milk with coconuts sourced from Sumatra, Indonesia. It is available for a little surcharge on your drink.

What Does Cascara Mean In Coffee?

In the world of coffee, cascara is in reference to the outer shell of the coffee cherries, often called the skin, peel and husk.

It can be used on its own to make a cascara tea, cascara syrup or cascara sugar.

Is Coconut Milk Healthy In Coffee?

Yes, coconut milk is healthy and adds to coffee which on its own has a lot of well-established and documented health benefits.

Add it to coffee only enhances the health aspect that coffee has. The MCTs (Medium Chain Triglycerides) are great for your heart. Lauric acid, a compound found in coffee, is both antiviral and antibacterial aiding your general health, immune health and fighting inflammation.

Is Oat Milk Or Coconut Milk Better For You?

Let’s be clear: both oat milk and coconut milk are healthy and have their health benefits. Between these two milks, coconut milk is the healthiest as it has more beneficial compounds like MCTs and Lauric acid which are good for various aspects of your health and has fewer calories.

What’s The Difference Between Barista Coconut Milk And Normal Coconut Milk?

Barista coconut milk has been adapted to be able to be steamed and frothed without damaging the milk structure. It contains emulsifiers like gellan gum to be able to be steamed without curdling and becoming clumpy.

Acidity regulators are added also.

Is Cascara A Coffee Or Tea?

Cascara is a little bit of both: it’s the outer shell, the husk of a coffee cherry but the way in which it is used as beverage it is brewed like a tea.

Final Thoughts – Cascara Coconut Milk Latte

I hope that you tried this tasty cascara coconut milk latte and went a step further and experimented with different beans, and made your own cascara syrup and your own much healthier barista style coconut milk.

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