What Italian coffee drink is made with espresso and foamed milk?

What Italian coffee drink is made with espresso and foamed milk? The answer is cappuccino.

A cappuccino combines espresso with hot steamed milk and a layer of foamed milk. In the traditional Italian style, the drink is relatively small, often around 150–180 milliliters, with the espresso, steamed milk, and foam balanced in roughly equal proportions.

The name comes from the Capuchin religious order. The drink’s brown-and-cream color was compared with the color of Capuchin friars’ robes, while the German coffee drink Kapuziner helped inspire the modern name and style. Espresso machines later helped establish the cappuccino as the familiar Italian café drink.

A common mix-up is confusing cappuccino with a latte. Both use espresso and milk, but a latte is usually larger and contains more steamed milk with a thinner layer of microfoam. An Americano, by contrast, uses hot water rather than foamed milk, while a macchiato is espresso marked with only a small amount of milk foam.