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Cardamom Date Café au Lait

Hot brewed coffee and creamy soy milk blended with caramel-sweet dates and floral cardamom for a smooth, gently thick, lightly frothy mug.

Cardamom Date Café au Lait

Ingredients

  • 1¼ cups (300 ml)300 gSoy milk, original
  • ¾ cup (180 ml)180 gBrewed coffeefreshly brewed and hot
  • 36 gMedjool dates, pittedfinely chopped
  • ½ tsp1 gGround cardamom
  • ¼ tsp0.5 gGround cinnamon
  • a pinch0.3 gSalt

Steps

  1. Brew the coffee and keep it hot.
  2. Finely chop the dates so they soften quickly.
  3. In a small saucepan, combine the soy milk, chopped dates, cardamom, cinnamon and salt.
  4. Warm over medium-low heat, stirring often, until steaming and the dates are very soft, about 6 to 8 minutes; do not let it boil.
  5. Take the pan off the heat and whisk hard, or use an immersion blender, until the dates melt into the milk and it turns smooth and frothy.
  6. Stir the hot coffee into the spiced date milk.
  7. Pour into two mugs and serve hot.

Contains: Soy.

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Saved in the Every Helping recipe book on October 24, 2026.

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