<p>This video here seems to have a good tutorial:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZNs2Mjxos">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZNs2Mjxos</a></p>

<p>The steps seem to be as follow:</p>

<ol>
<li>Make your latte as normal, heating/frothing the milk as you normally would - a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfoam">microfoam</a>.</li>
<li>Make a <em>separate</em> batch of frothed milk, and froth it a lot - you want a really stiff foam - a <em>macrofoam</em>.</li>
<li>Spoon the stiff foam carefully onto the top of your latte. If you've got it right, the dollops should just sit there and retain their shape. Keep spooning it on to build the shape you want. For your linked images, this is obviously quite a lot of dollops of various sizes.</li>
<li>Use a paintbrush to paint the darker areas onto the foam with espresso. It looks like your example has a variety of colours. This is probably done with food dye and/or chocolate.</li>
<li>Enjoy destroying your painstakingly produced work of art for the sake of your next caffeine fix!</li>
</ol>

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2015-02-05T12:47:23.887Z
2015-02-05T13:12:12.213Z
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fredley
<p>My family and I went to a coffee shop in Japan specifically to try their 3-D latte's, my wife ordered one where it featured I think 2 bears or a bear and rabbit as you can see.</p>

<p>How can I recreate these babies at home?</p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/U2QSG.jpg" alt="Front"></p>

<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ZTMbG.jpg" alt="Back"></p>

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2015-02-18T21:31:10.120Z
They are the newest scoulpture sensation, latte sculptures
Anthony Pham
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2015-02-05T16:38:03.850Z
This may be helpful: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/foam
apaul
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How to create these 3-D latte art?
EdChum
# How to create these 3-D latte art?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-05)

My family and I went to a coffee shop in Japan specifically to try their 3-D latte's, my wife ordered one where it featured I think 2 bears or a bear and rabbit as you can see.

How can I recreate these babies at home?

![Front](https://i.sstatic.net/U2QSG.jpg)

![Back](https://i.sstatic.net/ZTMbG.jpg)

**Tags:** latte-art

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: This may be helpful: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/foam  
> **username_1**: They are the newest scoulpture sensation, latte sculptures  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2015-02-05. Score: 14 | Accepted answer

This video here seems to have a good tutorial:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTZNs2Mjxos>

The steps seem to be as follow:

1. Make your latte as normal, heating/frothing the milk as you normally would - a [microfoam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfoam).
2. Make a *separate* batch of frothed milk, and froth it a lot - you want a really stiff foam - a *macrofoam*.
3. Spoon the stiff foam carefully onto the top of your latte. If you've got it right, the dollops should just sit there and retain their shape. Keep spooning it on to build the shape you want. For your linked images, this is obviously quite a lot of dollops of various sizes.
4. Use a paintbrush to paint the darker areas onto the foam with espresso. It looks like your example has a variety of colours. This is probably done with food dye and/or chocolate.
5. Enjoy destroying your painstakingly produced work of art for the sake of your next caffeine fix!


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