The Crema Flower

The Crema Flower is in many ways just like a few of the other chocolate flower designs we have done in the past, except its color scheme is inverted. This can bring out a nice change of pace to the classic chocolate flower design. It’s also a relatively easy design to get right because it involves no special pouring whatsoever. Just get out your spoon, chocolate sauce, and a small pointed metal object to draw with. You will be able to impress your friends and guest at your coffee shop with minimal effort.

Even though you won’t be directly pouring this one, it is still very important to pay attention to your espresso and milk foam. When steaming the milk, hold the steam wand at an angle to the side of the steam pitcher to get the milk to swirl around the pitcher. This creates the microfoam essential to both easy and difficult latte art creations. Get this right every time, and your latte art will be as beautiful as it is delicious.

The beginning of the Crema Flower design is very simple. Just fill up the cup almost all the way to the top and leave a small white dot of foam in the center. Now grab your spoon and get some foam to line the entire circumference of the coffee cup. Your ring of foam should be about one and a half centimeters thick, and you should use about five spoons full of milk foam to do the job. As a final touch, add another spoonful of foam to the center dot.

By now, your design should look like a very basic target shape with a white dot in the center surrounded by a brown crema foam ring. It’s time to draw with chocolate sauce! Get your chocolate squeezer and draw a chocolate ring around the circumference of the center white dot and also around the outer circumference of the brown crema ring. If you do it correctly, the overall design should progress as follows from the center of the coffee cup out to its edge: white dot, chocolate ring, brown ring, chocolate ring, white ring.

Now take your pointed metal object and move from the center of the design out to the edge of the coffee cup. The Crema Flower is an eight-pointed shape, so you will want to do this eight times, evenly distributing the points across the flower. At the end of this process, you should have something that looks like an eight pointed pinwheel target shape. Don’t forget to wipe off your metal object after every swipe from the center outwards as it makes your shape much more clean looking.

The last part of the design simply requires to do the reverse of what you just did, except you will be doing it for the spaces exactly in between each point. Move the pointed metal object from the outer white foam ring to the center of the design. This movement creates the flower petals distinct to the Crema Flower design. As soon as you have done this eight times for every gap between the points, your Crema Flower shape will be complete. Put it alongside its inverted cousin, the Chocolate Pinwheel, and take a picture. We look forward to seeing it on the site!

Learn more about making Latte Art in our Latte Art How To!