Raf coffee and recipes for making it at home are of interest to many lovers of this drink. A number of people consider it a space for the creative imagination of the barista, others jokingly say that this is a pleasure for “vanilla” girls. Be that as it may, this drink quickly found its supporters.
He is also called Raf. It is hot coffee. Cream and sugar are added to it. They are whipped with steam from a coffee machine in a pitcher. The volume and method of serving are the same as cappuccino.
In the early nineties, a small coffee shop near the Kuznetsky Most metro station was always full of visitors. Here, customers were offered up to thirty types of coffee. Each visitor was characterized by his own requirements and habits. An order was prepared especially for one of the guests according to a special recipe, whipping coffee with cream and vanilla sugar. This drink quickly became popular among other visitors. This first visitor's name was Raf, and the coffee was named after him.
During its long existence, Raf, in addition to the classic one, can boast of a huge number of other cooking methods. Many are suitable for regular home cooking.
To prepare one cup you will need:
Cooking method:
The composition of the products for this drink is as follows:
When learning how to prepare this drink, you need to take into account that it is done in the same way as the classic version. The only difference is that it is decorated with lemon-lime slices.
To prepare a citrus drink you should prepare:
Orange juice is poured into the pitcher along with all the ingredients. In order to decorate the drink, it is recommended to take orange slices. And they emphasize a delicate tart note against the background of vanilla and creamy taste.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Pour coffee into a pot, add cold water, and place on low heat. Bring to a boil, but do not boil, but immediately remove the dishes from the heat. After this, the lavender and sugar are ground. The resulting mass is added to coffee. Then pour in the cream and heat the drink for several minutes. After this, beat the coffee with a blender until a thick foam is obtained. Everything is poured into a cup and served immediately.
ADVICE. Allows cooking coffee not in Turk, but using any other method. For example, it could be a coffee machine or a French press.
For this drink you should take:
How to make coffee with a delicate taste of honey, you can find out further:
Brew espresso. After this, the cream is heated and coffee is added to it. Next, mix it all. Then add honey and beat with a cappuccino maker until foamy. Garnish the coffee with a little cinnamon and serve it in cappuccino cups.
The approximate calorie content of Raf coffee per hundred grams is 100 Kcal. The final nutritional value directly depends on the calorie content of the ingredients and their quantity.
This drink is served not only like cappuccino, but also like it (take a large transparent glass for it).
In situations where cream of too high a fat content is used, it can be diluted a little with water before adding.
IMPORTANT! Vanilla sugar must be used with caution; the slightest increase in dose will cause the taste of the drink to change dramatically.
Over the course of its existence, Raf coffee has received several nominations in coffee competitions, and its popularity is constantly growing. Just over the past few years, a large number of varieties of this drink have appeared. Authentic vanilla taste is confidently replaced by another. In this case, they use syrups or any other secret ingredients of their own. The result is simply amazing.
Yesterday very few people knew Raf coffee recipes, but today it confidently occupies a place in the classic coffee menu.
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Now there are a lot of recipes for making coffee with milk. Raf coffee is very popular among visitors to many restaurants and cafes. The drink consists of brewed espresso, which goes well with sugar and cream. Raf coffee is an airy dessert that has a delicate vanilla and creamy taste. Today we will tell you recipes for making raf coffee at home and the history of the drink. We will also discover the intricacies of preparing a delicate dessert.
What is its difference from a traditional drink, how to brew raf coffee and what is it? It contains ready-made espresso, cream and vanilla sugar. The coffee dessert turns out airy and very tasty.
Typically, the ingredients for espresso-based drinks need to be prepared separately. When preparing raf coffee, all components are combined at once and whipped in a pitcher.
Previously, it was brewed in a cup, carefully mixing all the ingredients. It is thanks to this method of preparing coffee that it tastes light and pleasant, unlike other drinks.
Raf coffee is a high calorie dessert. Because it contains sugar and cream. If you are overweight or on a diet, you should avoid drinking this coffee.
Particular attention should be paid to the supply of coffee. Raf is served in a tall cocktail glass, like a latte.
About twenty years ago, an aerated drink was prepared for the first time in Russia. The ideal combination of ingredients makes raf coffee very popular every year. Now, in every decent establishment you can try a cup of aromatic vanilla delicacy.
In the late nineties, the Coffee Bean cafe made raf coffee for the first time. Then, for a long time, a visitor to the cafe Rafael could not choose any of the drinks from the assortment of the cafe menu. The barista invited the guest to mix espresso, vanilla sugar and cream in one cup. Raphael liked this original coffee. He began to visit Coffee Bean very often. Alone or with a group, Rafael always ordered this cocktail.
Over time, other patrons began ordering "A Drink Like Raphael's." Some asked to bring them a cocktail “Like Raf’s.” This is how the famous Raf coffee came to be called, the recipe of which has already become known in many countries. Over time, baristas began to experiment and add different ingredients to the drink.
Previously, as we already wrote, the drink was prepared in a cup, but now it is whipped in a pitcher. A pitcher is a tall metal mug for whipping milk or cream. Many coffee machines are equipped with cappuccino makers. They are designed to froth milk into a high, stable foam. Professional baristas prepare an air mass in a pitcher, which is used to decorate various drinks.
Over the many years of existence, many different recipes have been invented. Everyone prepared the drink with their favorite additives, which made its taste and aroma always different. Today, every cafe or restaurant prepares raf coffee according to an individual recipe. And there are a lot of them, everyone is looking for their own option.
This is the basic recipe that many baristas follow. Prepare the following components:
First, prepare tall glasses for beautiful serving, preheat them. Mix sugar in pitcher, cream and finished espresso. Place the cappuccino maker in a container and whisk until you get a high foam. Pour the coffee into glasses, garnish with a cocktail straw and serve.
Don't worry if you don't have a coffee machine. Raf coffee can be made at home in a Turk or French press. Brew espresso in a Turk and strain. In a tall container, mix all the ingredients and beat the mixture with a blender or mixer. When the airy foam rises, pour the drink into glasses and enjoy its taste.
For those with a sweet tooth and nut lovers, this drink will be ideal. It contains peanut butter, which makes the taste rich with nutty notes. This raf can be prepared for children; they will appreciate the dessert. Ingredients:
In a pitcher, mix the paste with a little water. Add sugar (you can use caramel syrup instead of cane syrup), warm milk, espresso and stir. Beat the mixture with a cappuccino maker or mixer. Serve garnished as you wish.
Please your loved ones and friends by brewing a drink following the recipe. Prepare:
Brew espresso from fresh coffee beans in a coffee machine or Turkish coffee machine. In a container, combine heated cream, ready-made coffee, orange juice, vanilla syrup and beat with a cappuccino maker (or mixer). Serve the raf in beautiful latte glasses, garnished with a straw and a slice of citrus.
A recipe for those who like the combination of cheese and coffee. Its original spicy taste will appeal to many cheese lovers. Prepare the following ingredients:
You can choose cheese according to your taste; mascarpone, Philadelphia, and cottage cheese are good options.
Dissolve the cheese in warm cream. Place the spices in the pitcher, pour in hot espresso, creamy mixture, add sugar and a pinch of salt. Beat the mixture until smooth and stable foam is obtained.
Many people like the recipe for raf coffee with lavender notes. Be sure to prepare, you will need the following components:
First, combine sugar with lavender flowers and grind until juice appears. Then add hot espresso and warm cream. Use cream with a fat content of at least ten percent. Using a cappuccino maker or mixer, beat the mixture until stable peaks form. Decorate the finished airy raf with lavender and serve in a cappuccino glass.
To prepare a honey treat you will need the following ingredients:
In a pitcher or other tall container, mix hot fifteen percent cream with a teaspoon of honey and espresso. Beat until a stable creamy foam forms. Decorate the airy dessert with cinnamon.
Honey raff is widely known among coffee lovers and ranks second after traditional coffee.
If you like to treat yourself to sweet drinks, but are on a diet, you should know how many calories are in a creamy drink.
One glass of raf coffee, one hundred and thirty milliliters in volume, prepared according to the classic recipe, contains 140 kcal.
Raf coffee... What is it? What kind of unusual drink is hidden behind the short name? Coffee with a delicate creamy taste and pleasant fluffy consistency will delight espresso lovers with its taste. Interestingly, most of the recognized coffee brewing options came from abroad, and only raf has Russian roots. The history of the invention of this drink is very interesting.
Raf coffee - what is it? How did he appear? This drink was first made in a Moscow cafe called Caffee Bean in 1996. New (unusual at that time) cafeterias offered a huge number of different coffee options. And one of the regular visitors to this establishment once said that he didn’t really like the taste of coffee. To try to please the client and not fall flat on his face, the barista of this cafe came up with a recipe that combined coffee, cream and sugar. The result was a very original cocktail, which was presented to the capricious client. This man's name was Raphael, or Raf for short.
After a while, looking at his friend who was happily sipping an unusual drink, Raf’s friends also wanted to try it and began asking for the same coffee as Raf’s. This is how the name appeared - raf coffee.
Despite the fact that this drink appeared almost 20 years ago, you rarely see it in local coffee shops. You can try it only in some establishments in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Be sure to try raff coffee someday. You already know what it is.
Its composition is very simple. The classic version presented to Raphael had only a few ingredients. Today, different cafes offer variations with different syrups. These are the components:
Rough coffee, the recipe for which involves mixing the ingredients at the initial stage of preparation, turns out very tasty.
First, prepare a classic espresso. To do this, take 7 grams of finely ground grains and pour 30 ml of cold water. Heat it over low heat until foam appears. Remove from stove.
Second, mix the cream and sugar and heat until hot and the sugar dissolves.
Combine espresso and cream mixture and blend using a whisk or cocktail blender. The special taste is given by the persistent foam mass, which is formed through thorough whipping. It is best to serve the drink in transparent glasses.
Now you know everything about raff coffee, what it is and how to prepare it at home. Bon appetit!
Raf is a purely Moscow invention. It was invented in 1996-1997 at Coffee Bean, the first coffee shop in Moscow opened according to the American model. When one of the regular guests, Rafael, asked to come up with something for him, three baristas - Gleb Neveikin, Artyom Berestov and Galina Samokhina - prepared coffee with cream and vanilla sugar. Afterwards, fussy friends began to order this cocktail, asking the waiters to bring coffee like Rafa. It was under this name that the baristas prepared the drink; after some time it was simplified. The drink began to be called “raf”. Afterwards, the first Coffeemania opened in Moscow, and the barista team moved there. Raf continued to cook in the new place. The recipe has not changed. The result was a coffee drink that tasted like melted creme brulee ice cream (if we talk about the classic raffe based on vanilla sugar). There are also varieties of raf in which experiments are carried out with the composition of sugar: lavender - white, vanilla and dried lavender flowers, citrus - cane with orange and lime zest.
Gleb became the director of the barista department and the chief roaster of the Coffeemania chain of coffee shops, I don’t know anything about Artyom now, and Galina works in the coffee industry. We didn’t really keep track of when and in which coffee shops raf began to appear, but now it is available almost everywhere, and not only in Moscow.
You already know what ingredients are considered traditional for making raf coffee, but other varieties of this coffee drink are becoming more common. So, cream and vanilla sugar are whipped not with espresso, but with Turkish coffee and even instant coffee. Milk is considered an alternative to cream when making raff coffee, but instead of vanilla sugar, you can put cane sugar in a cup. The addition of syrup, cinnamon, chocolate or cognac can radically change the taste of classic raf coffee.
If you order raf coffee in a coffee shop, they will most likely bring it to you in the same cup as cappuccino. This is explained by the fact that the portions of the listed drinks are equal (about 120 ml). True, in some coffee shops, raf coffee is served in a transparent glass under a latte macchiato. This drink is often decorated with cappuccino or decorative sprinkles.
You will need:
You will need:
Cooking method
Ingredients for making honey raff coffee:
To prepare our honey raf coffee recipe, brew espresso coffee or choose your favorite method.
To make coffee according to this recipe, you will need a coffee machine with a cappuccino maker. These days you can buy a coffee maker in an online household appliances store.
I tried citrus raf in “Dudnik”, there is such a chain of coffee shops, many people probably know about them. I generally like the coffee there, but then I decided to try something new, the choice fell on citrus raf, and since then it’s been such a pleasure to drink such coffee.
However, I don’t go somewhere very often, and it turned out that drinking citrus coffee only in a coffee shop is not enough for me, so I wanted to figure out how to prepare it at home. And in general, it was just interesting to even find out what was included in its composition - it has such an unusually wonderful taste, so soft, unusual. I started to figure it out.
Citrus raf is prepared in different ways. The same aforementioned coffee shop uses orange zest, as far as I understand, and vanilla syrup. And milk, of course. Quite a strange combination, it’s true, but how delicious it all turns out! And in another establishment I ordered this drink, it contained citrus syrup.
I searched on the Internet, and it turns out that you can also add orange juice to citrus raf, both from tetra packs and freshly squeezed. That’s where I started experimenting with the citrus raffa recipe.
However, it turns out that orange juice causes milk to curdle in coffee. As soon as this became clear, I became concerned about finding orange syrup, I thought that everything would probably work out with it. I bought it in a specialized store where everything for coffee is sold. But it also curdled the milk.
I went searching on the Internet again and found information that citrus additives curdle in coffee if it is too hot. Well, after this, it finally became clear to me how to prepare citrus raf at home.
First we prepare the coffee. I have a drip coffee maker, so I made coffee in it.
Whisk the warm milk, I do this with a small electric milk whisk.
Finally, add steamed milk to the coffee.
The proportions are approximately the following: two parts coffee, one part milk. Although you can have more milk, it’s also tasty and depends only on personal preferences.
And one more important detail - you need to add a little orange syrup, literally about a tablespoon per glass, otherwise the milk in the coffee will curdle again. And it’s not so tasty when there’s a lot of syrup - it then overpowers all the other tastes in the drink, coffee and milk, and it’s not the same anymore.
And here it is in the end - our citrus raf.
By the way, when I tried to prepare a citrus raffe recipe with orange juice, it seems that I also just added too much juice, and the coffee was too hot. So someday you can try making coffee with juice again, and it’s also interesting to experiment with orange zest, sometime if necessary.
Again, if you don’t want to bother too much with whipping milk for citrus raffa, then you don’t have to whip it. Then we do everything exactly the same - add sugar to two parts hot coffee, one part cold milk and a tablespoon of syrup.
Here is a recipe for citrus raffa at home. I’m sure it can still be improved, but even now this drink can be enjoyed at home, which is, in fact, what I was striving for. And again, my experience may be useful to you. Let's love coffee together!
UPD. I finally tried making citrus raffe with orange zest and natural juice, and it turned out exactly the same, just perfect!
So, let's prepare coffee, this time I prepared it using a coffee machine, but this does not change the essence. Three little zests, squeeze the juice literally from a slice of lemon to a volume of 200-250 ml, add them to the coffee along with sugar.
After this, pour warm milk into the drink - the temperature should be such that the resulting coffee turns out pleasantly warm.
I think if you add a little vanilla sugar to all this, it will be even better, but even without it, the citrus raff prepared in this way pleased me immensely.
So it turns out, by and large, you don’t need anything special, just coffee, milk and an orange. Moreover, this time I used the most ordinary milk, fat content 2.5%, and not baked milk, as at first. So everything turned out to be so simple!
