During your last vacation in Paris, you heard it in your favorite bar: “a café noisette please”… You tried it and you loved it! What hides behind this variant of the espresso? Can we make a cafe noisette or cafenoisette at home?
Follow the guide, for the cafe noisette recipe and more!
Why is it called cafe noisette?
Behind this unusual name hides a coffee in which we add a cloud of milk foam. It takes on a hazelnut brown color…. hence its name, cafe noisette in France translates to hazelnut coffee.
Recipe for cafe noisette
How do you make cafe noisette? It’s very simple… but an espresso machine is essential.
Start by making a good espresso.
Then make milk froth (check our recipe for classic milk froth, or for plant milk froth) and add a spoonful to your cup.
If you are not equipped to make milk froth or don’t have the time, pour a drop of hot or cold milk. It’s not the recipe of the purists, but it makes a nice hazelnut-tainted coffee with hot or cold milk (depending on your taste).
The milk foam gives more smoothness and makes all the typicality of the cafe noisette.
Finally, sweeten it to your liking. To serve your homemade cafe noisette use an espresso cup.
Variation of the cafe noisette
If the original recipe does not contain any other ingredient than those mentioned above, its variations include vanilla, syrup, chocolate powder, or other spices … according to the fantasies of each!
Difference between a creamed coffee and a cafe noisette
It should not be confused with creamed coffee, a long coffee with liquid cream. Long coffee is made with twice as much water as espresso. Longer and sweeter, its marriage with cream is quite tasty. The cream is whipped cold and contrasts with the heat of the coffee.
For more European-style coffees try the famous Viennese coffee or the cafe viennois as they say in Paris, a whipped cream coffee!