This is a chocolate variation of the caffé latte.
It a cup of pure indulgence. It’s like a latte, the café mocha, is one third espresso, two third of milk, but with coca powder or chocolate syrup.
Either cocoa powder or chocolate syrup is added at the beginning of preparing the drink, and the chocolate is mixed or frothed with hot milked until thoroughly blended, before the espresso is added. It then served topped with whipped cream.
Even before taste it, the delicious aroma fills the air. Once settle back, feel the warmth and start take a sip.
Café Mocha takes its name form the Red Sea coastal town of Mocha, Yemen. This Yemenese port famous for its coffee.
Chocolate in Caffé Mocha
The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. These words live on in Mexican today as ‘choclatl’ for the drink and ‘cacauatl’ for the tree. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices.
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