COFFEE. For most of us, we need it just as much as any other living essential (like water, oxygen and our phones). We are no exception, and this week we had the opportunity to try a bunch of different varieties of flavors thanks to our very first sponsor, mixcups.com. If you're lazy (like us), this service is pretty much made for you. Mixcups sends a box of single-cup coffee and teas from all over the globe each month, meaning you could drink a cup from Brazil one morning and a "Cake Boss" brew the next day. We love to spice up our coffee routine, which made this delivery a much anticipated and appreciated one.
We used one of our Mixcup coffees to create our Snack of the Week, which we've dubbed the "Tim Tam Cinna-slam Almond Latte." If you need a more enticing description before you try it for yourself, get out.
To create this easy and delicious pick-me-up:
1) Brew a cup of your favorite coffee or espresso. If it's a hot day, which might be soon for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, pour over ice.
2) Mix in a splash of almond milk and a splash of heavy cream.
3) Top with your choice of whipped cream. Squirt bottle directly in mouth.
4) Add a dusting of cinnamon to the whipped cream. Cinnamon is a proven blood-sugar regulator, unlike the rest of these ingredients.
5) Stick a Tim Tam in the latte. After you've instagrammed your masterpiece, bite off both ends of the Tim Tam to use as a straw. If you haven't been to Australia in the last few weeks and are short on Tim Tams, any "tubular" or hollow chocolate candy will do (like a pirouette, perhaps. Google it).
6) Enjoy! Think of us fondly.
For more on the hot topic of COFFEE, take a listen to this week's episode, "Magic and Coffee with Justin Willman."