Floater coffees

[Tweetypie]

Does a floater coffee still work without the sugar? Has anyone ever asked for it this way in a bar/restaurant before? I'm guessing they would substitute it with sweetener but I have no idea if the cream still floats or not!

 

[lovinglife]

If you make it properly (and they rarely do these days!) you don't need sugar or even alcohol to float cream on top of coffee, I find lots of places use squirts cream nowadays - that has sugar in it. Back in the day when I took my city & guilds in silver service using anything but pouring cream was a complete no no - lots of skills disappearing all the time