Plant-Based Lattes and Cappuccino Recipes

This date-sweetened almond butter latte (Rainbow Plant Life) is made with almond butter (source a good brand to a void palm oil and US almonds that harm bees).

It contains orange peel and spicy cayenne, for a lovely unique flavour combination. Just boil the ingredients for 10 minutes, cool  and blend. Can also be made with hot black or Earl Grey tea.

Avoid caffeine for pregnancy/nursing and affected medical conditions. Or use organic decaff coffee (and leave off chocolate toppings).

Homemade Vegan Pumpkin Spiced Latte

This homemade (vegan) pumpkin spiced latte (Broke Bank Vegan) can also be made wtih pureed sweet potato (or even purple sweet potato). If you can’t find pumpkin pie spice, just combine cinnamon, ginger, allspice etc.

This latte is sweetened with agave syrup (or use one of Sweet Freedom’s cinnamon or gingerbread fruit syrup. Top with toasted pecans, a cinnamon stick, grated vegan chocolate and whipped double vegan cream.

Sea Salt Latte (with maple syrup)

Maple Sea Salt Latte (The First Mess) offers a popular Canadian flavour for coffee. It sweetens espresso with maple syrup, then tops with foamed plant milk and a sprinkling of natural sea salt.

Vegan Orange Mocha Recipe

Mocha is a combination of coffee and chocolate. This Vegan Orange Mocha Drink (The First Mess) therefore kind of tastes a bit like drinking a hot liquid Terry’s chocolate orange.

Made with warm spices (ginger, cinnamon) and sweetened with Canadian maple syrup, this is a real winter warmer. If you’re feeling wicked, you could even add a splash of your favourite orange liqueur.

What To Do With Coffee Grounds

To avoid plugging up your sink with coffee grounds (and causing a fatberg), use a silicone sink stopper.

Latest research is that caffeine from coffee grounds (and tea leaves) could harm compost creatures. So just bin them, to naturally break down.

Sweet Revolution (plant-based latte mixes)

Sweet Revolution (use code englandnaturally for 10% discount) is a brand of instant plant-based latte mixes. Ideal for vegans and people with dairy allergies, and also more affordable than expensive lattes in chain-store coffee shops.

Sold in sustainable packaging, this brand also offers retail packs for baristas.

Based on coconut milk, these latte mixes are easy to use, and made with natural tasty ingredients.

The Flavour Range of Latte Mixes

As well as being sold in a range of tasty flavours, the natural colours means they are pretty too, and far more unique than chain-store offerings!

• Beetroot (pink)
• Turmeric (yellow)
• Matcha (green)
• Chai (brown)
• Blue Chai Latte
• Cacao Latte
• Gingerbread
• Pumpkin Spice

Where to Buy Vegan Latte Mix

Sweet Revolution (use coupon code englandnaturally for 10% discount) offers organic latte mixes, that you just mix with plant milk (recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle). Check medication as some have superfoods that may be contraindicated (reishi mushroom etc).

Choose from:

• Gingerbread
• Matcha (green)
• Beetroot (pink)
• Spirulina (blue)

Grind offers nice iced coffee lattes in cans, in various flavours including caramel. Only one bundle is vegan (made with oat milk) which we link to. Made in London.

Oatly’s Moccaccino is organic and blends coffee, cocoa and oats in a portable container, also in a cappuccino version. Both are small enough to fit in your bag and can be kept for a while at room temperature.

Some people are not happy that the company has sold out to a big brand, but their products are for sure more ethical than other plant-based offerings, and they are at least using the investment to bring out products like this.

Try this organic oat milk cold brew latte, sold in returnable glass bottles. Created by a company co-founded by a former Man United footballer, Oato (Lancashire) also offers oat milk lattes in glass bottles.