With Halloween just around the corner, we’re celebrating by trying out some new coffee and cocktail recipes from our partners at MONIN.
Halloween specials
Halloween is now one of the biggest retail occasions aside from Christmas.
It is a growing sector and we know this is largely driven by millennials. Retailers have to react quickly as you can’t afford to stand still.
When consumers have a pleasant shopping experience, it undoubtedly sticks in their mind. Therefore, those that can leverage Halloween may well be in a stronger position during the key Christmas trading period.
Source: Marketing Week, October 2017. Shared via a presentation by Attila Molnar at the UK Coffee Week Talkshop on seasonal innovation
Creepy Crawly Cold Brew
30ml MONIN Pineapple puree
80ml Alpro Coconut Milk
40ml White Rum
2g Blue Spirulina
Blend, shake or whisk for 2-3 seconds without ice. Pour into glass full of ice. Top with cold brew coffee, and finish with a charcoal-pumpkin cold foam.
4 parts skimmed milk to 1 part MONIN Pumpkin Spice syrup and 2g charcoal powder, whisked on a cold foam spindle mixer
Bad Santa (Beetroot Gingerbread Latte)
15ml MONIN Gingerbread syrup
200ml Alpro Oat Milk
5g Beetroot powder
Steam oat milk and beetroot powder together, and pour into glass. Add gingerbread syrup and stir. Top with Gingerbread beetroot meringue* and a flamed dusting of beetroot and cinnamon blend.
*7 egg whites, 100ml MONIN Gingerbread syrup, 40ml still water, 3g beetroot powder. Add to a syphon with two cream chargers and chill.
Raf, Two Ways
Back in the mid ’90s, long before anything called Third Wave coffee had arrived in Russia, one coffee drinker’s casual whim gave birth to one of Russia’s most popular drinks.
A regular at Coffee Bean, a shop which would later expand across several regions within Russia, Rafael Timerbaev preferred his coffee with milk. So, on one of his visits—not realizing the glory this moment would portend—he simply asked for a “good cup of coffee with milk.”
The barista, rising to the occasion of this open-ended request, mixed a shot of espresso with cream and sugar, and steamed it all together. What would follow is now the stuff of Russian coffee legend.
Source: Presentation by Attila Molnar, MONIN
Maple Spiced Raf
30 ml MONIN Maple Spiced
1 shot(s) espresso
50 ml fresh cream
100 ml milk
Steam MONIN flavouring, espresso and milk together until creamy
Spiced Orange Raf
15 ml MONIN Triple sec syrup
15 ml MONIN Cinnamon syrup
1 shot(s) espresso
50 ml fresh cream
100 ml milk
Steam MONIN flavouring, espresso and milk together until creamy
Spiced Orange Espresso Spritz
1 espresso
15ml MONIN Orange Spritz syrup
15ml MONIN Winter Spice syrup
150ml Tonic Water
Ice
Dried orange and spices
Gin* optional
