What goes better together than milk and cookies? Coffee and donuts! At Chin Up Donuts, we take the pairing of coffee and donuts to the next level. If you are looking to take your morning pick-me-up to the next level, try the below recipes which combine your favorite sweets with some serious espresso.
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• Cereal Milk Latte. Espresso mixed with Cap’n Crunch cereal milk and topped with cereal pieces, it’s like drinking milk from the bottom of the cereal bowl with a kick of caffeine.
• S’mores Mocha: Espresso poured over our house-made mocha sauce and marshmallows for a sweet chocolatey treat, combined with milk of your choice – served hot or iced.
• Salted Carmel Latte: Our rich house-made salted caramel sauce mixed with espresso and milk. No artificial syrups here, just sweet, buttery caramel sauce and house-roasted espresso for an elevated coffee drink you won’t want to miss out on!
Cereal Milk Latte
Ingredients you will need:
• Your choice of coffee – We use Giddy Up Coffee Co. coffee.
• Your choice of cereal milk (choose your favorite cereal seep in your milk of choice for at least an hour and up to overnight)
• Whole milk/milk of choice
• Cap’n Crunch Berries cereal
Directions:
Step one: Pull a double shot of espresso
Step two: Combine with 8 ounces of cereal milk
Step three: Mix in ice for a cold cereal milk latte
Step four: Top with pieces of Cap’n Crunch Berries cereal for a little crunch and a lot of photo-worthiness
S’mores Mocha
Ingredients you will need:
• Your choice of coffee – We use Giddy Up Coffee Co. coffee.
• Dark chocolate mocha sauce
• Marshmallows
• Your choice of milk
Directions:
Step one: Pull a double shot of espresso
Step two: Pour over 30 grams of dark chocolate mocha sauce and stir
Step three: Add 15 grams of marshmallows
Step four: Once mocha sauce is dissolved with espresso, combine with steamed milk of choice – or pour over milk
Step five (optional): Stir in ice for a cold s’more mocha.
Salted Carmel Latte
Ingredients you will need:
• Your choice of coffee – We use Giddy Up Coffee Co. coffee.
• Salted caramel sauce (we love our house-made salted caramel, but feel free to use store bought caramel sauce)
• Your choice of milk
Directions:
Step one: Pull a double shot of espresso
Step two: Combine with 20 grams of salted caramel sauce until sauce is dissolved
Step three: Pour espresso and caramel mixture into milk and ice
Step four: Stir to combine
These specialty drinks can also pair nicely with our Chin Up Donuts:
• Cereal Milk Latte, which can pair with an Ahoy Cap’n donut, a brioche yeast-raised donut with a vanilla glaze topped with Cap’n Crunch Berries cereal
• S’mores Mocha, which can pair with the Gimme S’mores donut, a brioche raised donut with a chocolate glaze, graham cracker crumble, and torched marshmallows
• Salted Carmel Latte, which can pair with an I Like It A Latte, yeast-raised donut with our house coffee glaze topped with a dusting of ground espresso
And there you go! Simple to make, delicious coffee drinks that you can enjoy with your morning donut!
Alex McEntire, self-named Chief Donut Officer, is the woman-owned-founder of Chin Up Donuts. Chin Up’s mission is to bring more positivity and optimism to the world, one ring of dough at a time. McEntire started Chin Up Donuts with a single countertop deep fryer in her small apartment kitchen, playing around with unique donut flavors and bringing joy to her friends and coworkers. She traded in her corporate badge to follow her passion full time to bring smiles to the people of Phoenix and challenge the donut status-quo with Chin Up Donuts. Chin Up Donuts is located at The Promenade in North Scottsdale at 7325 E Frank Lloyd Wright Suite 103. They offer their brioche donuts alongside house-roasted coffee daily, as well as pop-up events, catering, weddings and special events with their yellow donut trike throughout the Valley. Visit the Chin Up Donuts website at: https://www.chinupdonuts.com/.
