Kapuziner
Also Kapuziner Kaffee
Vienna's small coffee with a few drops of cream, coloured like a Capuchin friar's habit. The namesake ancestor of the cappuccino.
Espresso and milkServed hotFrom Austria
- Volume
- 70ml2.4 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 1shot
- Caffeine
- 64mgderived, USDA FDC
- Coffee to milk
- 1:0.2
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Espresso60 ml86%
- Cream10 ml14%
- Volume
- 70ml
- Caffeine
- 64mg
- Espresso
- 1shot
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Black coffee with just enough cream to turn it the brown of a monk's robe.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 70 ml kapuziner
Derived per shot: USDA FoodData Central FDC 171891 (espresso, restaurant-prepared) lists 212 mg per 100 g; a standard 30 g shot is about 63.6 mg, times 1 shot(s). Real values vary with dose, roast and species (robusta roughly doubles it).
USDA FoodData Central record 171891 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
2| Name | Country | How it differs |
|---|---|---|
| cappuccino | Italy | The Italian steamed-milk descendant. |
| Franziskaner | Austria | Lighter, with more cream. |
History
Popular accountViennese coffee-house term documented from the eighteenth century, which lent its colour-name to the Italian cappuccino (popular account). Wikidata maps the term to the cappuccino item.
Vienna; the ancestor of the cappuccino's name.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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