While you can certainly buy it online or at the grocery store, espresso powder is easy and inexpensive to make at home. Why run to the store when you can fire up your oven instead? Keep reading to learn how to make espresso powder at home. NOTE: The best beans for espresso powder are fresh and darkly roasted.
Espresso is not a variety of coffee beans, like Arabica or Robusta, but instead refers to its dark roast, which helps your brewed espresso have bold and smoky flavor. You can use previously brewed or fresh coffee grounds. Use slightly less of this more concentrated powder in your recipes. Start by spreading your espresso grounds on a baking sheet. Depending on how wet they are, you may need to bake them a little longer.
Put the baking sheet on a center rack, and let it bake for about an hour. Take the baking sheet out of the oven and let your grounds cool for a few minutes. Do this in batches if you need to. Like any spice, it will lose flavor as it comes into contact with oxygen. The flavor should maintain for at least six months, after which you may want to make a new batch. Espresso powder is made of dehydrated, finely ground espresso beans.
Espresso powder, like espresso, is rich, dark, and very flavorful. Espresso powder is most often used in baking, particularly in recipes that involve chocolate. Instead, it intensifies chocolate flavors, making them richer and more full. I mean do you really have to use it to make a cup of coffee first before you bake it? However, I suspect that if the coffee is ground finely enough it would work.
If you try it, please let me know how it worked! I am looking at a recipe for flourless chocolate cake, that calls for espresso powder. Since I had never heard of it I googled and here I am. I drink espresso instead of coffee. I use it to make coffee I should say. I feel like if I put it in my vita mix dry container I can make it powder without bothering to dry it out. Gonna try and see. Just what I was looking for…a recipe like yours! I have lots of Keurig brewed coffee in pods that I cut the top off of, take out the grounds and yes, been using in my gardens!
The Starbucks French roast today. It is so fine already I may not have to grind it. I realize this post is pretty old and that I may not get a reply, but could I use ground espresso in place of the used grounds?
Hi Chula! Would your recipe work for this? What do you think? And do you know the potency of the caffeine in your espresso powder? I use regular coffee grounds to make the espresso powder, so I doubt that the caffeine level would be as high as regular instant espresso. Amazing recipe of making expresso powder. Thank you for sharing. I will definitely try to make this at home. This recipe looks yummy. Can I use Nespresso coffee pods in the place of coffee powder? Waiting for your suggestion.
What a delicious classic recipe! I love love love this! It is very fine. Can I use the unbrewed grounds as a substitute for instant coffee in a Swiss roll recipe? Or should I brew it and dry it like you have here? You should be able to use the Espresso Ground Coffee as a substitute for instant coffee. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Pingback: Chocolate coffee sour cream cake — Coffee with the Queen.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. But I still want to be able to have the absolute best — and I can make it myself! For my espresso beans, I prefer to use organic, medium roast espresso beans. I highly recommend having at least one good baking sheet in your kitchen, if you can possibly have two, please do! My favorite baking sheet is a rimmed half-sheet pan. It is perfect for toasting the espresso beans since it heats evenly in the oven and the sides contain the espresso beans inside the pan.
You will also need a coffee or spice grinder for grinding your toasted espresso beans. Many people love to freshly grind their coffee and that grinder is also excellent to use for your espresso powder. I use a small burr style conical grinder often for grinding coffee beans for making coffee. So if you have one on hand, I highly recommend it for grinding your espresso beans for your espresso powder.
I have a dedicated grinder that I use for making my espresso powder since I use it so often in my baking. It was fairly inexpensive and does a wonderful job evenly grinding my espresso beans in just a few seconds. I use the same style container for all of my seasonings, spice blends, and for this. One question that I had when I first started making my own espresso powder was how many espresso beans do I need to make my own?
What I have found is that generally one cup of espresso beans will yield close to 1 cup of espresso powder. So, if you need more or less, you can easily make as much as you need. Once you have all of your needed supplies for making your homemade espresso powder, you are ready to start making your own for baking! To make it, you begin by preheating your oven and then spreading your espresso beans in a single layer on your baking sheet.
Then, remove the pan from the oven and allow the espresso beans to cool. Working in batches, grind your espresso beans into as fine of a powder as your grinder will grind. Once I discovered the power of a little espresso powder to enhance the flavor of chocolate baked goods without leaving a bitter, coffee aftertaste, I never looked back!
These are all a great way to get started using this in your baking! I receive many of the same questions and comments regarding espresso powder for the recipes that I share with it included.
I do not believe that espresso powder leaves a coffee flavor in baked goods when the right amount is used in the recipe.
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