cafe olla

My brother Nate went to Tijuana for a weekend and came back raving about the way they drink coffee. This recipe is just brewed coffee with whole cinnamon and cane sugar. The cinnamon and cane sugar make it sweet enough to drink black. Try this with some high quality light or medium roast coffee, and I think you’ll love it – even if your used to drinking Starbucks with 17 pumps of sugar and cream.

Here is the recipe:

• 1 cup burnt over brewed coffee
• 6 pumps cinnamon
• 8 pumps caramel
• 12 pumps sugar syrup
• I’m just kidding – I’m not about to “pump” anything into my coffee

Here is the real recipe using whole ingredients:

• 2 cups of properly brewed coffee
• 1/2 cinnamon stick crushed up
• Cane sugar to taste

You can french press the coffee and the cinnamon together for a lighter cinnamon flavor OR you can take brewed coffee and simmer it on low in a pot with the cinnamon and cane sugar. Either way, its up to you. Fiddle around with the amounts you until you get it the way you want. Just don’t use powdered cinnamon because it has a completely different flavor, and it doesn’t really work.