Latte Love – A Latte Art Workshop

We were invited to attend a coffee event entitled Latte Love; A Latte Art Workshop. It was held last October 22, 2011 in SM Megamall’s Prestige Lounge at 2pm to 5pm; sponsored by Krups and SM Homeworld.

Upon entrance, there were booths from Krups, Meadow Fresh Milk, TimTam, Folgers which offered free coffee, free milk, free chocolate and waffle. The free coffee was made from one of Krups espresso machines and used Folgers coffee beans which smelled and tasted really superb!  Loved it!

Mike Canlas, one of the Barista training instructors of Philippine Barista & Coffee Academy was the  main  speaker and talked about Coffees, how to make a Latte using the Krups Espresso machine, and together with 2 other Baristas showed how to do Latte Art…

Here’s a quick step by step on how to do Latte Art and based on my understanding…

First, you have to froth milk in this type of container and can easily do it by using the Espresso machine; there’s a standard and desired consistency to have a perfect frothed milk.

When done, you can now pour your milk on your espresso coffee; with proper stroke or hand movement as you start creating your latte art… while watching it really looked easy but I doubt if I can come up with any figure if I’ll be doing it…Haha!

Then, if needed you can also do some etching or any additional design for your Latte Art using the proper tool just like this…

Here’s a sample of Latte Art – a perfect leaf for your espresso…

Thanks to these wonderful Baristas who made Lattes more interesting and demonstrated effectively how to do Latte Art.  Philippine Barista & Coffee Academy offers offers short courses on Latte Art and other coffee trainings. You can check out their website to know more.

A Latte Art Contest was also conducted with some audience as participants. It was a fun activity, they made their own espresso and created their own Latte Art… Best Latte Art made was acknowledged and given a prize.

Also, the famous coffee painter, Ms. Sunshine Plata was another speaker that afternoon. She talked about how she started coffee painting, shared some of her works and her great success in this form of art. You can check out her website to see her works.

This Latte Art workshop was a very interesting and fun event; I learned more about coffee and art; also inspired me that I can be a Barista at home and create my own Latte Arts… which I hope to do during my free time…

I’m already a coffee lover and this event made me appreciate coffee more! Love it!

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