Some Coffee Recipes

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Coffee and Chocolate Chip Gingerbread

You can also make gingerbread men out of them and let the kids have at them in a decorating frenzy. Be sure to get raisins, colored icings and little candies like sprinkles for your decorating part.

Ingredients:

• 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped crystallized ginger
  
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
  
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
  
• 1/3 cup sugar
  
• 1 egg
  
• 3/4 cup mild-flavored molasses
  
• 1 cup brewed coffee, cooled
  
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate pieces
  
• Coffee-Flavored Whipped Cream (see recipe below)
  
• Finely chopped Crystallized Ginger (optional)

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8x8x2-inch baking pan; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine flour, 1 tablespoon crystallized ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, ground ginger, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium speed for 30 seconds. Add sugar; beat until combined. Add egg and molasses; beat 1 minute on medium speed. Add dry mixture and coffee alternately to beaten mixture, beating on low speed after each addition until combined. Stir in chocolate pieces. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake about 40 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool for 30 minutes in pan on a wire rack. Serve warm with Coffee-Flavored Whipped Cream and sprinkle with additional crystallized ginger, if desired. Makes 9 servings.

Coffee-Flavored Whipped Cream: In a chilled medium mixing bowl combine 1 cup whipping cream, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1 ounce shot of espresso. Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed until soft peaks form.

Coffee and Chocolate Crunch Bars

Made with probably two of the most potent and habit-inducing flavours known to man, these Coffee and Chocolate Crunch Bars are rightfully addictive. Who can resist?

THE BASE

• 1½ cups plain all-purpose flour
  
• 1 tsp espresso powder, or finely ground instant coffee
  
• ½ tsp fine sea salt
  
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
  
• 225g unsalted butter, at room temperature
  
• ½ cup packed, light muscovado sugar
  
• ¼ cup caster sugar
  
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  
• 80g bittersweet chocolate, chopped

THE TOPPING

•  170g bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped

•  ¾ cup chopped almonds, roasted

MAKING THE BASE

Preheat oven to 190°C. Prepare a 23x33cm shallow baking pan with some parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, espresso powder, salt and cinnamon, set aside.

In a separate bowl, beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy.

Beat in the vanilla and mix until combined.

Sift the dry ingredients over in two additions just until the flour has been incorporated into the batter.

Add the chopped chocolate and mix until combined. Be careful not to overwork the batter.

Scrape the dough together using a spatula, the dough will be quite sticky and heavy.

Fill the baking pan evenly with the dough, using your fingers to press into corners and fill holes to make a nice even layer.

Bake in the oven for 20-22 minutes, or until the base starts to bubble vigorously.

Remove from oven and get ready to add the topping.

MAKING THE TOPPING

Scatter chopped chocolate evenly over the surface of the hot base and replace in the oven for 2-3 minutes.
The chocolate will begin to melt although will not have spread evenly.

Remove from oven and immediately spread the melted chocolate evenly using an offset spatula or the back of a spoon.
Sprinkle roasted almond over the chocolate.

Place the baking pan on a rack to cool to room temperattre and for chocolate to set. If need be, place the bars in the refrigerator to set the chocolate.

When chocolate has set firmly, carefully lift the bars out of the pan using the edges of the parchment paper.

Cut the bars into whichever size you want and serve. 

Coffee Sponge Drops

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are wonderful if you are having a tea or coffee party! 

Ingredients:

•   1/2 cup flour

•   1 tbsp. instant coffee powder

•   2 eggs

•   1/3 cup sugar

For the Filling:

•   1/2 cup low-fat cream cheese

•   1/4 cup chopped crystalizaed ginger

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 C).

Sift flour and coffee together. Beat cream cheese and ginger, chill until needed. Combine the eggs and sugar and beat until thick and mousse like. Carefully add sifted flour/coffee mixture and fold in with a rubber or silicone spatula. Spoon into a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2 inch nozzle. Pipe 1 1/2 inch rounds on a lined baking sheet. Bake 12 minutes. Cool, then sandwhich with filling.

Makes 12 servings.

Coffee Crumb Cake

Delicious cake. Good for breakfast, lunch, or dessert. Also delicious with a scoop of ice cream on top!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick/4 oz./113g) butter or margarine

•  1 cup granulated sugar

•  2 eggs

•  2 cups all-purpose flour

•  1/2 teaspoon salt

•  1 teaspoon baking soda

•  1 teaspoon baking powder

•  1 cup sour milk

•  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Crumb Mixture:

•  1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)

•  1/4 cup granulated sugar

•  1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

•  1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Tip:

If you don't have sour milk, put 1 tbsp. of vinegar or lemon juice into 1 cup of whole milk or cream. Let stand for few minutes.

Instructions:
Mix butter and granulated sugar, add eggs and mix well.

Then add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, sour milk, and vanilla.

For the Crumb Mixture:

Mix brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, and nuts.

Grease and flour a square or round 9-inch baking pan, place 1/2 of the batter in pan, then add 1/2 of the crumb mix.

Add remaining batter and the remaining crumb mix on top.

Bake at 325 degrees F/160 degrees C for 40-45 minutes.

Enjoy!

A Coffee Timeline

Kaldi

Prior to 1000 AD: Members of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia notice that they get an energy boost when they eat a certain berry, ground up and mixed with animal fat. Another Ethiopian legend evolves, of goat herder Kaldi who notices goats are friskier after eating red berries of a local shrub. Kaldi then experiments with the berries himself and begins to feel happier.

1000 AD: Arab traders bring coffee back to their homeland and cultivate the plant for the first time on plantations. They also began to boil the beans, creating a drink they call qahwa (literally, "that which prevents sleep").

1453: Coffee is introduced to Constantinople by Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with her daily quota of coffee.

1511: Khair Beg, the corrupt governor of Mecca, tries to ban coffee for fear that its influence might foster opposition to his rule. The sultan sends word that coffee is sacred and has the governor executed.

Circa 1600: Coffee enters Europe through the port of Venice, introduced to the West by Italian traders. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider the favourite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. However, he decides to "baptize" it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.
 

1607: Coffee is introduced to the New World by Captain John Smith, founder of Virginia at Jamestown.

Captain John Smith

1645: First coffee house opens in Italy.

1652: The first coffee house opens in England. Coffee houses are called "penny universities" - a penny is charged for admission and a cup of coffee. Edward Lloyd's coffee house opens in 1688. It eventually becomes Lloyd's of London, the world's best known insurance company. The word "TIPS" is coined in an English coffee house: A sign reading "To Insure Prompt Service" (TIPS) was place by a cup. Those desiring prompt service and better seating threw a coin into a tin.

1668: Coffee replaces beer as New York's City's favourite breakfast drink.

1672: The opening of the first Parisian café dedicated to serving coffee. In 1713, King Louis XIV is presented with a coffee tree. It is believed that sugar was first used as an additive in his court.

1675: The Turkish Army surrounds Vienna. Franz George Kolschitzky, a Viennese who had lived in Turkey, slips through the enemy lines to lead relief forces to the city. The fleeing Turks leave behind sacks of "dry black fodder" that Kolschitzky recognizes as coffee. He claims it as his reward and opens central Europe's first coffee house. He also establishes the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds, sweetening it, and adding a dash of milk.

1683: The first coffee house opens in Vienna. The Turks, defeated in battle, leave sacks of coffee behind.1690: With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, to Ceylon and in their East Indian colony - Java, source of the brew's nickname - for cultivation.

1713: The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush. His descendants will produce the entire Western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years, an official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually, 90 per cent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.

1721: First coffee house opens in Berlin.1727: The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start from seedlings smuggled out of Paris when Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta, who would later be dubbed "the James Bond of Beans' by National Geographic, is sent by the government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and the Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, but he also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its New World coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said good-bye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.

1732: Johann Sebastian Bach composes his Kaffee-Kantate - partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee (it was thought to make them sterile) - the cantata includes the aria, "Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee."

1750: One of Europe's first coffee houses, Café Greco, opens in Rome. By 1763, Venice has over 2,000 coffee shops.

1773: The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.

1775: Prussia's Frederick the Great tries to block imports of green coffee, as Prussia's wealth is drained. Public outcry changes his mind.

1822: The prototype of the first espresso machine is created in France.

1885: A process of using natural gas and hot air becomes the most popular method of roasting coffee.

1886: Former wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names his popular coffee blend "Maxwell House," after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it's served.

Early 1900's: In Germany, afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion. The derogatory term "Kaffee Klatsch" is coined to describe women's gossip at these affairs. The term has since been broadened to mean relaxed conversation in general.

1900: Hills Bros. begins packing coffee in vacuum tins, spelling the end of the ubiquitous local roasting shops and coffee mills.

1901: The first soluble "instant" coffee is invented by Japanese-American chemist Satori Kato of Chicago.

1903: German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turns a batch of ruined coffee beans over to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavour. He markets it under the brand name Sanka, which is introduced to the United States in 1923.

1905: The first commercial espresso machine is manufactured in Italy.

1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee.

1907: In less than a century, Brazil accounts for 97 per cent of the world's coffee bean harvest.

1920: Prohibition goes into effect in United States. Coffee sales boom.

1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafé and introduces it in Switzerland.

1942: During WWII, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.

1946: In Italy, Achilles Gaggia perfects his espresso machine with a piston that creates a high pressure extraction to produce a thick layer of cream. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its colour to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin order.

1969: One week before Woodstock, the Manson Family murders coffee heiress Abigail Folger as she visits with friend Sharon Tate in the home of filmmaker Roman Polanski, Tate's husband.

1971: Starbucks opens its first store in Seattle's Pike Place public market, creating a frenzy over fresh-roasted whole bean coffee.

1991: Caffé Carissimi Canada, a network of espresso service providers is formed in Canada, modelled after a visit to Franco Carissimi (roaster and equipment manufacturer) in Bergamo Italy. It becomes the fastest growing network of private and independent super automatic machines providers in Canada.

Today: Coffee is the world's most popular beverage. More than 400 billion cups are consumed each year. It is the world's largest commodity, second only to oil.