Simple and Cozy Winter Coffee Recipes

The perfect winter recipes for your coffee shop or at home

Fall always has the good coffee fads. Let’s make sure the next season is just as tasty!

I mean winter deserves all the glory for warm and cozy drinks. Peppermint mochas. Hot chocolate. Eggnog. Mulled wines and ciders. Those are drinks memories are made of!

If you are just finding our little corner of the web…. welcome, and personally we hate weeding through long poetry writing and stylized pictures to find half decent recipes to use as inspiration for our specials we use in our coffee shop. Here it’s just a simple list consisting of the specials’ names and the amount of syrups or sauces to use.

Basic Notes

All of these recipes are for 12 oz hot or 16 oz iced drinks. Adjust according to the sizes you have. Recipes are guidelines not laws.

Caramel= the syrup caramel sauce= the thick and sweet ice cream topping-like product

1 pump of syrup= 0.25 oz 1 pump sauce= 0.5 oz

We’ve found most coffee recipes work well with our chai concentrate as well!

Coffee and Chai Specials

Classic Peppermint Mocha- 2 pumps sweet peppermint syrup, 1 pump mocha sauce

Candy Cane Latte- 2 pumps sweet peppermint, 2 pumps cherry (trust me on this)

Eggnog Latte- 2 oz espresso shot, 4 oz steamed milk, 4 oz steamed eggnog

Cheater Eggnog Latte- 3 pumps eggnog flavor syrup, 1 pump white mocha

Pecan Pie- 2 pumps butter pecan, 1 pump caramel sauce

Gingerbread Latte- 4 pumps gingerbread syrup

Dirty Gingerbread Man- 2 pumps gingerbread, 1 pump dark mocha sauce

Turtle- 2 pumps salted caramel, 1 pump toffee nut, 1 pump dark mocha sauce

Cordial Cherry- 2 pumps cherry, 2 pumps vanilla, drizzle dark mocha sauce

Sodas

Cordial Cherry- 3 pumps cherry, 2 pumps vanilla, 2 pumps chocolate flavored syrup (not the grocery store stuff but the flavored syrup from Torani or Monin, etc)

Red Hot Candy- 3 pumps cherry, 2 pumps cinnamon, 2 pumps vanilla

Holiday Punch- 3 pumps citrus (I like the winter citrus from Monin), 3 pumps cranberry, splash of ginger ale, rest club soda

Bright & Merry- 2 pumps cranberry, 2 pumps cherry, 2 pumps lemon or lime

Santa’s Vacation- 2 pumps pineapple or pina colada, 2 pumps coconut, 2 pumps blue curacao

Use versatile recipes when creating your winter menu

Cider and Hot Cocoa

Side Note: hot chocolate can be made with a powdered mix and water or milk OR you can steam milk and add pumps of mocha. It’s all about the size of your crowd and how you prefer your hot chocolate!

Spiced Cider- cider, 2 pumps cinnamon, 2 pumps apple pie

Sleigh Ride-cider, 2 pumps winter citrus, 2 pumps cranberry

Caramel Apple Cider- cider, 4 pumps caramel syrup

Mexican Hot Cocoa- hot chocolate, 2 pumps vanilla, 2 pumps cinnamon

Nutella Hot Cocoa- hot chocolate, 2 pumps hazelnut, 2 pumps vanilla

Salted Caramel Hot Cocoa- hot chocolate, 2 pumps salted caramel, rim and drizzle caramel sauce

Peanut Butter Cocoa- 1 TBSP PB2 powder mixed with a little hot chocolate, fill cup rest of the way with hot chocolate

Grinch Cocoa- green dye with a white mocha base

Holiday Specials

These were all really basic recipes that can easily be made during a rush. However, you can make it fun too!

Some ways to jazz it up!!!!

Blended Hot Chocolate- pretty much a blended and icey chocolate frappe with whipped topping. You could line the cup in dark mocha for pizzazz
Cool toppings- add all the whipped topping, sprinkles, chocolate shavings, dust with spices like cinnamon or nutmeg, drizzle sauces, add a cookie on top. You name it! And take pictures to post on social media to draw in the crowds
Cool names- you don’t have to use the names above. Make a theme and come up with something silly or classic or even naughty!

Stand Apart- If you notice a ton of shops in your area doing the same things, switch it up to stand out! Too many peppermint mochas around? Really push forward with another flavor like the turtle or cordial cherry and market the heck out of it on your socials!

Do you have any fun and tasty winter menu specials?

Best Wishes,

Ashley M

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