Good morning! Coffee Calendar: 24 Recipes of Energy and Inspiration (Anna Grice)

This book will make you think again about that cup of coffee you make and offers ways to make it more exciting.

After a brief overview of coffee history and various coffee preparations (a vocabulary very useful to look up to date at a café), we can enjoy coffee through the seasons.

Each month has a coffee recipe and also a cake to accompany it. Plenty of really nice ideas to make a change to your usual coffee habits. Winter teas are spicy and warm with ginger, orange, cinnamon, cloves, or rich like a caramel latte. Spring brings lavender lattes, pistachio, and a really intriguing lemon cappuccino. Summer combines coffee with fruits, mint, coconut and ice with various refreshing suggestions. And autumn is about cosy coffees with apple, pumpkin and chestnut flavours. It really opens up some new ideas to make a change to our regular coffee habits. And because this will prompt new ideas, the book has blank writing pages after each season so the reader can add ideas and recipes they may have tried and tested.

All the cakes and cookies that accompany the coffee recipes are mouthwatering and also follow a season theme, from the Christmas ginger cookies, to the summer grissini with lemon cream and the autumn cinnamon rolls.

A nice gift idea for coffee lovers, and as the author concludes, “May each cup you create be filled with love and the kind of warmth that brightens the heart”.