# Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £6.80 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/nescafe-dolce-gusto-latte-macchiato-coffee-8-servings-16-pods/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/nescafe-dolce-gusto-latte-macchiato-coffee-8-servings-16-pods/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Nescafé **Price:** £6.80 GBP **Servings:** 8 cups **Price per cup:** 85.00p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 92-96C **Brew time:** 4 min **GTIN:** 7613037505641 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods is a two-pod drink: one milk pod and one coffee pod per serving, which is why sixteen pods make eight drinks rather than sixteen. The milk goes in first and the espresso is pushed down through it, giving the banded glass a macchiato is supposed to have.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.Milk-forward and mild, with the coffee held deliberately behind it and a genuine cap of foam from a sealed pod. Contains milk, so it is not suitable for vegans. Use a tall warmed glass, put the milk pod in first, and follow the water marking printed on each pod.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods is a two-pod drink, and understanding that is the difference between being pleased with this box and being disappointed by it. Sixteen pods make eight drinks, not sixteen. Each serving uses one milk pod and one coffee pod, which is why the serving count is half the pod count on the front of the carton. The two-pod design is also what makes it a macchiato rather than a latte. The milk pod goes into the machine first and fills the glass; the coffee pod goes in second and the espresso is pushed down through the milk that is already sitting there. You get the banded, layered glass that a macchiato is supposed to look like, without the jug, the thermometer or the practice a barista needs to build one by hand. The Taste Profile Milk Forward: ●●●●● (5/5) Milk is the lead, not the accompaniment. This is a milk drink with coffee in it. Coffee Strength: ●●●○○ (3/5) Present and clearly there, but deliberately held back behind the milk. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Reads sweet before you add anything. Check the pack for the sugar figure if that matters to you. Foam and Texture: ●●●●○ (4/5) A genuine cap of foam from a pod, which is the main thing the system is selling. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Nescafe Dolce Gusto Dolce Gusto exists to solve one problem: making milk drinks at home without a steam wand. A conventional espresso machine gives you the coffee easily and the milk with difficulty, because texturing milk properly is a skill that takes months to learn and a minute to do badly. Dolce Gusto sidesteps the whole question by sealing prepared milk into its own pod and letting the machine's pressure do the foaming. The trade is honest enough. You give up control over the milk, and you accept that the milk comes as the manufacturer made it. In exchange you get a layered latte macchiato in under a minute with no jug to wash. For a household that wants the drink rather than the hobby, that is a reasonable bargain, and this box is the standard eight-drink size for it. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet A two-pod drink means two pods to dispose of per serving rather than one. That is worth knowing before you buy, and it is the clearest environmental cost of the format. Pod recycling routes differ by manufacturer and by council. Check the current carton and your local authority's guidance rather than assuming the pods go in the kerbside bin. The outer carton is card and is generally straightforward. The pods are not, and the two should be separated. How Does Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods Compare to: Nescafe Dolce Gusto Cafe Au Lait: a single-pod drink, so sixteen pods give sixteen servings instead of eight. Cafe au lait is the everyday milky coffee; latte macchiato is the layered one, and you pay for the extra pod. Nescafe Dolce Gusto Cappuccino: also two pods per drink, but built foam-first with a much thicker cap and a stronger coffee reading. Choose cappuccino for a firmer drink, latte macchiato for a milder, milkier one. Starbucks by Nescafe Dolce Gusto Vanilla Macchiato: the same layered build with vanilla flavouring added. Pick that one if you want it sweeter and flavoured; pick this one if you want the plain version. Ideal Brewing Conditions There is very little to get wrong with a pod system, but there are three things worth knowing, and the order of the pods is the most important of them. The Standard Serve Milk first: The milk pod goes in first and fills the glass. Putting the coffee in first gives you a flat brown drink instead of a layered one. Coffee second: The espresso is then pushed down through the milk, which is what creates the bands. Glass, not mug: Use a tall clear glass. The layering is half the point and a mug hides it entirely. Follow the pod markings: Each pod carries its own recommended water level. Overriding them is the usual reason a drink comes out watery. Adjusting the Strength Stronger: Reduce the water on the coffee pod slightly rather than increasing it on the milk. Less water through the coffee gives a denser shot and a better band. Milder: Add a little more water to the milk pod. This is the safer direction to travel; the drink stays balanced. Hotter: Warm the glass with hot water first and tip it out. A cold glass is why the second half of a pod drink always feels cooler than the first. Descale: A furred machine cuts flow rate, and low flow on a milk pod is the commonest cause of thin, disappointing foam. Making Latte Macchiato Step by Step Count: 16 pods in the box, 8 drinks. One milk pod plus one coffee pod per serving. Order: Milk pod first, coffee pod second, every time. Vessel: A tall glass, warmed, so you can see the layers and the drink stays hot. Water level: Follow the marking printed on each pod rather than filling to a fixed line. Do not stir immediately: Look at it first. Stir when you are ready to drink it. Iced version: Run both pods short over a glass packed with ice; the milk pod handles cold better than most. Best with: Breakfast pastries, a plain croissant, or as the mid-morning drink it is really designed to be. Safety And Purity Contains milk: The milk pod is a dairy preparation. This product is not suitable for vegans and is not suitable for anyone avoiding dairy. Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Caffeine note: This is caffeinated coffee. Sugar note: The milk pod reads sweet. The figure that applies to your box is printed on the current UK carton and should be read there rather than taken from a listing. Machine compatibility: These are Nescafe Dolce Gusto pods and fit Dolce Gusto machines. They are not Nespresso, Tassimo or Lavazza capsules and will not fit those systems. ## Product Questions Why does a 16-pod box only make 8 drinks?Because a latte macchiato is a two-pod drink. Each serving uses one milk pod and one coffee pod, so sixteen pods give you eight drinks. This catches people out regularly, and it is the single most useful thing to know before buying the box. Which pod goes in first?The milk pod first, always. It fills the glass, and the coffee shot is then pushed down through the milk that is already sitting there. That is what produces the layers. Put the coffee in first and you get a flat brown drink that tastes the same but looks nothing like a macchiato. What is the difference between this and a latte?Order of assembly. A latte is coffee with milk poured into it; a latte macchiato is milk with coffee poured through it. The ingredients end up similar, the look is quite different, and the macchiato reads milder because the first mouthful is mostly milk. Is it sweetened?It reads sweet before you add anything, and the sweetness comes from the milk pod rather than from the coffee. The sugar figure for your box is printed on the current UK carton. Will these fit my machine?They fit Nescafe Dolce Gusto machines and nothing else. They are not Nespresso capsules, not Tassimo discs and not Lavazza A Modo Mio. The systems look broadly similar on a shelf and are completely incompatible in practice. How much water should I use?Follow the marking printed on each pod rather than filling to a fixed line. The milk pod and the coffee pod want different volumes, and overriding them is the usual reason a drink comes out watery or too short. How do I make it stronger?Take water off the coffee pod, do not add it. A shorter shot is denser and gives a better defined band through the milk. Adding water to the milk pod goes the other way and makes the whole drink milder, which is the right move if you want it softer. Why is my foam thin?Usually limescale. A furred machine loses flow rate, and the milk pod needs pressure to foam properly. Descale on the schedule in your machine manual. A cold glass will also collapse the foam faster, so rinse the glass with hot water first. Should I use a glass or a mug?A tall clear glass. The banding is half of what you are paying for and a mug hides it completely. Warm it first with hot water and tip that out; a cold glass is why the bottom half of a pod drink always feels cooler than the top. Can the pods be recycled?Routes differ by manufacturer and by council, and they change. Read the current carton and check your local authority's guidance rather than assuming kerbside collection. Note that a two-pod drink means two pods per serving, which is the clearest environmental cost of this format. Can I make it iced?Yes. Run both pods short over a glass packed with ice, milk pod first as usual. Prepared milk pods handle cold better than fresh milk does, so the drink stays smooth rather than splitting. Drink it quickly before the ice dilutes the coffee band away. ## Ingredients & Nutrition IngredientProportionWhat it bringsMilk pod (dairy milk preparation)one of the two pods per servingThe body of the drink. It fills the glass first and supplies the foam cap, and it is the source of both the sweetness and the dairy allergen.Coffee pod (roast and ground coffee)one of the two pods per servingThe espresso that is pushed down through the milk to create the bands. Deliberately held behind the milk in strength.Pack: Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods; sixteen sealed pods in a card carton, making eight two-pod drinks. Caffeinated. Contains milk. Best-before date is printed on the pack.Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods is made by Nescafe for the Dolce Gusto system. The whole point of the system is that the milk is sealed into its own pod and foamed by machine pressure rather than by a steam wand, which removes the one part of making a milk drink at home that takes real skill. The trade is control: the milk comes as the manufacturer made it, and you cannot change it. What you get back is a layered latte macchiato in under a minute with no jug to wash and no thermometer to watch. Coffee origin and blend composition are not stated at a level we can restate here, and we do not invent one.What is in Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods, and what is not:In: a sealed dairy milk pod and a sealed roast-and-ground coffee pod, used together, one of each per drink.Contains milk: not suitable for vegans and not suitable for anyone avoiding dairy. This is not a hedge; the milk pod is the drink.Not a single-pod drink: sixteen pods make eight servings, not sixteen. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow. In this drink the layers are literal as well as figurative: the machine builds them physically in the glass, milk at the bottom, coffee through the middle, foam on top.The outer layer is aromatic and it belongs to the coffee, not the milk. When the espresso pod runs, the volatile compounds released by hot water under pressure rise through the milk already in the glass and reach the nose before anything touches the tongue. This is why a latte macchiato smells more strongly of coffee than it tastes of it, and why the drink seems stronger when you first lift the glass than it does once you start drinking. The foam cap traps a good deal of that aroma, which is one of the practical arguments for not stirring immediately.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and here the milk is unambiguously in charge. The prepared milk supplies body, sweetness and a soft, rounded texture, and the espresso sits behind it as depth rather than as a separate flavour. That is the design: a macchiato is milk marked with coffee, not coffee lengthened with milk. Because the bands have not been stirred, the middle of the glass is where the two actually meet, and the drink genuinely changes character as you work down through it. The first mouthful is milky, the last is noticeably more coffee-forward.The base structure is the lingering finish: a short, clean, faintly sweet dairy note with a little roasted bitterness behind it. It does not linger the way a black coffee does, and it is not meant to. A well built glass finishes soft and invites the next drink; a badly built one, made with the coffee pod first or with too much water, finishes thin and watery with nothing underneath it. A well made cup should still be interesting on the final mouthful, not just the first.Getting it right in the cup. Milk pod first, coffee pod second, every time; reversing the order collapses the bands and costs you the whole visual point of the drink. Use a tall clear glass and warm it with hot water first, because a cold glass drops the temperature of the finished drink faster than anything else you can control. Follow the water marking printed on each pod rather than filling to a fixed line. To make it stronger, shorten the water on the coffee pod rather than lengthening anything; to make it milder, add a little to the milk pod. If the foam is thin, the cause is almost always limescale in the machine cutting the flow rate, so descale on the schedule in your manual. Iced, run both pods short over a full glass of ice, milk first as usual, and drink it before dilution washes the coffee band out.How water and temperature change it. The same two pods give a measurably different glass depending on how the machine is set. A longer draw on the coffee pod pulls more water through the same grounds, which lengthens the drink and thins the band until the coffee stops reading as a separate layer at all; a shorter draw concentrates it and produces a sharper line through the milk. Water temperature at the machine is not adjustable, which is a genuine advantage of the format, but the temperature of your glass is, and a warmed glass is the difference between a hot drink and a lukewarm one by the halfway mark. Hard water matters here less for taste than for maintenance: scale builds in the boiler, flow rate drops, and the first thing you notice is that the foam stops forming properly. None of this is a fault in the pods, it is the same drink responding to the machine you build it in, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time. ## Recipe Ideas Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods gives you eight two-pod drinks, and the milk pod is more versatile than the standard serve suggests. Five builds below cover the layered glass as intended, an iced version, an affogato, a spiced winter variant and an adult after-dinner glass. Recipes, born here first The Layered Glass, As Intended How to make The Layered Glass with Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato. 2 min 1 glass Easy You will need 1 milk pod 1 coffee pod A tall clear glass Method Warm the glass with hot water and tip it out. Run the milk pod of Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods first, to the level marked on the pod. Run the coffee pod second, straight down through the milk. Leave it unstirred and look at it before you drink it. What you will end up with: Three clean bands and a foam cap. The drink shifts from milky to coffee-forward as you work down the glass, which is the whole point of not stirring it. Iced Latte Macchiato How to make Iced Latte Macchiato with Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato. 3 min 1 glass Easy You will need 1 milk pod 1 coffee pod A glass packed with ice Method Fill a tall glass to the top with ice. Run the milk pod short, a little under the marked level, straight over the ice. Run the coffee pod short on top of it. Drink it quickly, before the melt washes the coffee band out. What you will end up with: A cold layered glass that does not split. Prepared milk pods handle ice far better than fresh milk, which curdles against strong hot coffee. Pod Affogato How to make Pod Affogato with Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato. 3 min 1 serving Easy You will need 1 coffee pod, run short Two scoops vanilla ice cream Dark chocolate to grate Method Sit two scoops of vanilla ice cream in a cold glass. Run only the coffee pod from Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods, as short as the machine allows, straight over the top. Grate dark chocolate over it. Save the orphaned milk pod for a straight cortado later rather than wasting it. What you will end up with: A two-minute pudding. Run the coffee short or the ice cream melts into a soup before it reaches the table. Spiced Winter Macchiato How to make Spiced Winter Macchiato with Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato. 4 min 1 glass Easy You will need 1 milk pod 1 coffee pod A pinch of ground cinnamon and nutmeg Method Dust a pinch of cinnamon into the bottom of a warmed glass. Run the milk pod of Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods over it; the flow stirs the spice through. Run the coffee pod down through the milk as usual. Grate nutmeg over the foam. What you will end up with: The seasonal coffee-shop drink without the syrup pump. Spice in the glass before the milk, not sprinkled on top, is what gets it through the whole drink. After-Dinner Macchiato (Adult) How to make After-Dinner Macchiato (Adult) with Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato. 4 min 1 glass Easy You will need 1 milk pod 1 coffee pod 15ml amaretto or hazelnut liqueur Method Pour 15ml of amaretto into the bottom of a warmed glass. Run the milk pod of Nescafe Dolce Gusto Latte Macchiato Coffee (8 Servings), 16 Pods on top of the liqueur. Run the coffee pod down through the milk. Serve unstirred, with a spoon, so the first mouthful is milk and the last is coffee and almond. What you will end up with: A dessert glass that needs no equipment at all. Putting the liqueur in first means it concentrates at the bottom rather than dispersing. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._