Café con Leche

by Sabrina Snyder

Published on April 3, 2025 Last updated April 24, 2025

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Servings

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 0

Total Time 5

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Café con Leche is a Spanish espresso drink that you can easily make yourself with equal parts freshly brewed coffee and scalded milk.

Any coffee lovers are sure to enjoy this classic milk and coffee combo. For more cafe favorites, try my Drink Recipes for Cold Brew Coffee, Matcha Latte, and Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Sabrina’s Café con Leche Recipe

This is the perfect creamy coffee to enjoy with Breakfast or Brunch. It’s easy to make with three ingredients and is done in a matter of minutes. My recipe makes enough for two people, or if you need a lot of caffeine to get you going in the morning, you could enjoy it all by yourself.

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Ingredients

▢ 1 cup whole milk
▢ 1 teaspoon sugar
▢ 1 cup brewed espresso , fresh brewed

Instructions

Add milk and sugar to a saucepan on medium heat.
Stir and let the smallest of bubbles form around the edge of the saucepan.
Add espresso to two coffee cups.
Top each cup with steamed sweetened milk.

Nutrition

Cup of coffee with milk on saucer with cookie.

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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