Nescafe Gold Espresso Recipe

Nescafé Gold Espresso is instant coffee that dissolves into an espresso-style shot: one teaspoon stirred into a quarter cup of hot water, about 175°F and not boiling, with a layer of crema on top. Nescafé's own serving for a full mug is one teaspoon in 200 ml of hot water. The shot is the base for a latte, an americano or an iced shaken espresso.

What Nescafé's own instructions say

Nescafé describes Gold Espresso as made from Arabica beans, with a fuller cup and a layer of crema on top. Its instruction for a mug is one teaspoon and 200 ml of hot water, with the note that "there's no need to boil the water fully".

For espresso-style drinks its recipes use the same teaspoon in much less water. Nescafé's Iced Shaken Espresso calls for 1 teaspoon of Gold Espresso Intense and 1/4 cup of hot water at about 175°F. That is the shot in the recipe card. MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Nescafé.

Recipe

Nescafé Gold Espresso

An espresso-style shot from Nescafé Gold Espresso instant coffee — one teaspoon dissolved in a quarter cup of hot water — and the base for a latte, an americano or an iced shaken espresso.

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Prep

2 min

Total

2 min

Serves

1

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon Nescafé Gold Espresso instant coffee
• 1/4 cup hot water (about 175°F)

Instructions

1. Heat the water until it is hot but not boiling, about 175°F. If the kettle has boiled, let it stand for 2 minutes.
2. Put the coffee in a small cup, pour the water over it and stir for 10 seconds, until the granules have dissolved and a layer of crema has formed on top.
3. Drink it as it is, or use it as the espresso in one of the drinks below the recipe.

Nutrition

Calories:

5

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Four drinks from the Nescafé Gold Espresso shot

Drink	Add to the shot
Americano	3/4 cup of hot water
Latte	3/4 cup of steamed or frothed milk
Iced latte	1/2 cup of cold milk and a glass of ice
Iced shaken espresso	Nescafé's version: 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 6 to 8 ice cubes and 1/2 cup of milk, shaken until frothy

The shot also stands in for machine espresso in the Dunkin' brown sugar shaken espresso and the Dunkalatte.

Water temperature and strength

• Not boiling. Nescafé's instructions ask for hot water, not boiling water, and its recipe gives about 175°F.
• Stronger: 2 teaspoons in the same quarter cup, or one teaspoon in 3 tablespoons of water.
• Dissolve it in water first. Stirred straight into cold milk, the granules clump.
• Sugar goes into the hot shot, where it dissolves.

On an iced latte

An iced latte made with the shot takes a cold foam on top. The strawberry cold foam and the cherry cold foam on this site are both made with a handheld frother in under a minute.