Fall and Winter always have the good coffee fads. Let’s make sure the next season’s specials are just as tasty!
In the Midwest, Mother’s Day marks the turn in the seasons from all things cozy to more bright and fun flavors that come with the changing seasons…. It’s when we plant our gardens, baby farm animals frolic about, and we take some time to celebrate moms. (Although I think we deserve more than one holiday…..)
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. Sooooooo…….Here it’s just a simple list consisting of the specials’ names and the amount of syrups or sauces to use.
Note: We don’t offer 20 million different specials all at once. You can pick a daily coffee or soda special and rotate through or, for us, we pick two of each and just leave them as our specials the whole month.
Basic Notes
The typical reminder that size matters…
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 or as a hot cocoa as well!
Also, you don’t have to use our names as well. Name your special the way you want to! This is just inspo.
Have your Specials? What now?
I use the free version of Canva and PicMonkey and just use a free Instagram template and add a themed background and then type out the names of the specials and a brief description to entice customers.
A lot of times I just take the previous month’s specials and edit a copy so that they all look similar but are still individually themed.
Coffee and Chai
- Mama Bear. 2 pumps brown sugar, 1 pump caramel sauce. Drizzle top with caramel sauce.
- Mom’s Day Off. 2 pumps coconut. 1 pump white or dark mocha. Drizzle sauce on top.
- S’More Love. Smear marshmallow fluff inside of cup. 2 pumps vanilla. 1 pump dark mocha.
- Breakfast in Bed. 2 pumps maple, 2 pumps salted caramel.
- I Deserve a Treat. Smear cookie butter liberally inside cup. 2 pumps vanilla.
- Brain Fog. English Breakfast tea steeped in 5 oz water. 3 pumps vanilla. Half pump any citrus syrup. 9 oz steamed milk.
- Is It Bedtime?. 2.5 oz chai concentrate, 2 pumps toffee nut, oat milk. Can make it “dirty” with a shot of espresso.
- Sugar Mama. 2 pumps vanilla, 2 pumps salted caramel, drizzle of white mocha.
- Senora Era. 1 pump dark mocha, 2 pumps caramel syrup, 2 pumps hazelnut.
- Macamama. 2 pumps macadamia, 1 pump white mocha sauce, dusting of cinnamon.
Sodas and Lotus
***You can make any soda into a Lotus energy drink by adding a pump or two of Lotus energy concentrate.
- The Favorite Kid. 2 pumps watermelon, 2 pumps white peach, 2 pumps pineapple.
- Mother Nature. 2 pumps green apple, 2 pumps kiwi, 2 pumps cantaloupe.
- All Peaches n’ Cream. 4 pumps white peach, 2 pumps vanilla, 1 pump Lotus Super Cream (love this product because its shelf stable and mixes well with syrups).
- Spring Garden- 2 pumps strawberry, 2 pumps raspberry, 2 pumps grapefruit.
- Got It From My Mama. 2 pumps vanilla, 2 pumps strawberry, 2 pumps guava (or watermelon), 1 pump Lotus Super Cream.
- Hot Mama. 2 pumps strawberry, 2 pumps guava, 2 pumps passion fruit.
- Superwoman. 2 pumps strawberry, 2 pumps white peach, 2 pumps pineapple.
- Sweet Chaos. 3 pumps cherry, 3 pumps vanilla, 1 pump almond.
- Mamacita. 2 pumps pineapple, 2 pumps mango, 2 pumps strawberry, 1 pump lemonade concentrate.
- Queen Bee. 2 pumps mango, 2 pumps pineapple, 1 pump lemonade concentrate.
- Mommy Juice. 2 pumps blackberry, 2 pumps pomegranate, 2 pumps huckleberry (or other dark berry syrup on hand).
Are you doing any specials for Mother’s Day?
Share with us in the comments!
Best Wishes,
Ashley