Celebrate National Coffee Day

The US and Canada are celebrating National Coffee Day today, and the international ‘official’ holiday is just around the corner on October 1. Coffee shops will have specials all day long, and baristas will be whipping up everyone’s favorite caffeinated beverages, whether it’s a latte, espresso, flat white, or just a good cuppa.

While coffee beverages of all sorts are enjoyed by over a billion people every day, that’s not the only way people enjoy the fabled bean. Coffee flavors turn up in cooking and baking as well. The slight bitterness and robust toasty notes add to sweet and savory dishes. Chocolate and coffee have an especially wonderful affinity for one another.

A quick glance at the EYB Library found many Member favorite recipes with coffee flavors, including these:

• Espresso chocolate chip cake from Simple Cakes by Yossi Arefi
• The ultimate chocolate cake from The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein
• Coffee and walnut financiers from Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh (pictured)
• Seven-chile Texas chili from The Homesick Texan Cookbook by Lisa Fain
• Thai espresso martini from Cravings by Chrissy Teigan
• Sausage and biscuit slab pie with a Ritz cracker crust from Pie Squared by Cathy Barrow
• Chili and coffee-rubbed eye of round from Cooking Light Magazine