Learning how to create 'The Dot' is essential to most latte art. Start your latte art journey here with your Bambino® Plus.

How to create latte art: the dot

Creating latte art requires three essential ingredients – perfectly extracted espresso, microfoam textured milk, and plenty of delicious practice. Follow along as Leo Schmidt, a professional barista, demonstrates how to create a latte 'Dot', one of the most basic forms of latte art and the foundation for creating more complex latte art forms like the Heart, Tulip, Rosetta and much more.

How to create latte art

Perfectly textured milk is the secret to barista-quality third wave speciality coffee. It balances the espresso flavour, bringing out the nuanced flavours and smoothing out any bitterness while producing a silky texture and velvety mouthfeel. The Bambino® Plus makes texturing your milk a simple process.

How to automatically texture milk

Once you've mastered the basic dot pattern using microfoam milk from your Bambino® Plus, you're ready to move on to more complex designs like the Heart. Considered an intermediate style of latte art, the Heart begins with the same method as the Dot, but with variations of technique at the end.

How to create latte art: the heart

Latte art is the perfect way to top your third wave speciality coffee brewed using the Bambino® Plus. Once you've mastered the basic dot and intermediate-level heart patterns, you're ready to learn how to make the Tulip and the Rosetta.

How to create latte art: the tulip & rosetta

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