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Coffee & Tea Guides
Brew better and explore more — buying guides, how-tos, and explainers for every coffee and tea ritual.
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Coffee Cookies: An Easy Recipe for Coffee Lovers
An easy one-bowl recipe for coffee cookies with a clean, deep coffee flavour, plus a flavouring comparison table and variations for mocha, shortbread, vegan and glazed.
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Coffee Concentrate: What It Is and How to Make It
Coffee concentrate is strong, undiluted coffee you brew ahead and water down to taste. Here is what it is, the cold brew ratios, a fast hot method, how to use it, and how long it keeps.
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Coffee Cocktails: Recipes and How to Build Them
Coffee cocktails pair a strong coffee base with a spirit or liqueur. Learn the building blocks, then short builds for the espresso martini, Irish coffee, carajillo, White Russian and coffee and Baileys.
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Coffee Brewing Ratios: The Coffee-to-Water Ratio Guide
Coffee brewing ratios are the single number that decides how strong your cup is. Here is the golden coffee-to-water ratio, a method-by-method chart, and how to dial it in to taste.
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Coffee and Walnut Cake: A Classic Recipe
A classic coffee and walnut cake: a coffee-flavoured British sponge with chopped walnuts and silky coffee buttercream. Ingredients, ratios, numbered steps, variations and storage tips.
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Coffee and Cream: How to Add Real Cream to Your Cup
A practical guide to adding real dairy cream to coffee: the types of cream, what each does to the cup, how much to pour, and how to avoid curdling.
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How to Clean and Descale a Keurig Coffee Maker
A clear, evergreen routine for cleaning a Keurig coffee maker: a weekly wash, how to unclog the needles, and how to descale with solution or vinegar so every cup tastes fresh.
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Cinnamon Dolce Latte: A Starbucks-Style Copycat Recipe
A cinnamon dolce latte is espresso and steamed milk sweetened with a brown-sugar-and-cinnamon syrup, topped with whipped cream and a cinnamon-sugar dusting. Here is the Starbucks-style copycat: the syrup, the ratio, and hot and iced steps.
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Cinnamon Coffee: How to Make It (and Why People Love It)
Cinnamon coffee is coffee flavored with cinnamon: warm, fragrant, and lightly sweet without sugar. Here are four easy ways to make it, the right ratios, an iced cold-brew version, and Ceylon vs cassia tips.
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Chocolate Latte: An Easy Cafe-Style Recipe
A chocolate latte is just espresso, melted chocolate or cocoa, and steamed milk -- essentially a mocha. Here is the easy cafe-style recipe, plus iced, dairy-free, decaf, and no-machine versions.
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Chocolate Coffee: Ways to Make It at Home
Chocolate and coffee are a natural pair. Here are the main ways to make chocolate coffee at home, hot or iced, with the building blocks and ratios that make each one work.
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Chilled Coffee: How to Make It (and How It Differs From Iced and Cold Brew)
Chilled coffee usually means coffee brewed hot then cooled down. Here is how to make it without it going weak or watery, plus how it differs from iced coffee and cold brew.
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Chemex Coffee Maker: How to Brew a Clean, Bright Cup
A clear, repeatable method for the Chemex coffee maker: the gear, grind, ratio, the filter fold and rinse, the bloom and staged pours, plus how to fix a brew that runs too fast or too slow.
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How to Make Chai From Tea Bags
How to make chai from tea bags, fast. The quick steep-and-milk cup, a creamier stovetop chai latte, an iced version, how many bags to use, decaf, and tea bags vs loose leaf.
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Caramel Syrup for Coffee: How to Make and Use It
Caramel syrup is the thin, pourable way to sweeten and flavour coffee. Here is how to make caramel syrup for coffee at home, how it differs from caramel sauce, and how much to use.
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Caramel Latte: A Cafe-Style Copycat Recipe
A cafe-style caramel latte is espresso, steamed milk, and caramel finished with a drizzle. Here is the ratio, the hot and iced method, and easy salted-caramel and cinnamon dolce variations you can make at home.
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Caramel Frappuccino: A Starbucks-Style Copycat Recipe
A caramel frappuccino is a sweet, icy blended coffee drink topped with whipped cream and caramel. Here is the Starbucks-style copycat recipe, the texture trick, and variations.
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Caramel Coffee Drinks: How to Make Them at Home
Caramel coffee is a whole family of drinks. Here are the short builds and ratios for the caramel latte, macchiato, cappuccino, blended frappe and iced caramel cold brew, with links to the full recipes.
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Caramel Brulee Latte: A Starbucks-Style Copycat Recipe
A caramel brulee latte is a Starbucks-style holiday latte of espresso, steamed milk and burnt-caramel sauce, topped with whipped cream and crunchy caramel bits. Here is how to make it at home, hot or iced.
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Carajillo Recipe: How to Make the Spanish Coffee Cocktail
A carajillo is a Spanish-origin coffee cocktail: hot espresso spiked with Licor 43, brandy or rum. Here is the easy Mexican-style recipe, key variations, pro tips and a non-alcoholic version.
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Starbucks-Style Cappuccino: How to Make One at Home
A Starbucks cappuccino is espresso, steamed milk and a thick airy foam in equal thirds. Here is the home recipe, how Starbucks builds theirs, wet vs dry, and a no-machine method.
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Camp Coffee: How to Make Great Coffee While Camping
From gear-free cowboy coffee to an AeroPress, moka pot, percolator, French press, pour-over, instant or overnight cold brew, here is how to make great camp coffee outdoors, with ratios, heat-source tips, and leave-no-trace cleanup.
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Starbucks-Style Caffe Mocha: A Copycat Recipe
A copycat Starbucks-style caffe mocha you can make at home in five minutes: ingredients, numbered steps, the mocha ratio, plus iced, white, and dairy-free variations.
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Starbucks-Style Caffe Latte: A Copycat Recipe
A faithful copycat recipe for a Starbucks-style caffe latte: espresso, steamed milk, a thin foam cap, the right ratio, and a no-machine jar method.