Cold Coffee (Easy Café Style)
Cold Coffee is a creamy and refreshing beverage made with instant coffee, warm water, chilled milk, sugar, and ice cubes. Blended until smooth and frothy, it's a quick and delicious beverage perfect for hot days or when you crave a café-style drink at home. Customize it with toppings like whipped cream, chocolate syrup, or a scoop of ice cream for added richness.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 11 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp instant coffee (– powder or granules)
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 3 to 4 tablespoon raw sugar (or add as required)
- 2 cup whole milk (– cold or chilled)
- 6 to 8 ice cubes (or as needed, optional)
Instructions
- 1
In a blender take your instant coffee, raw sugar, add warm water.
- 2
Blend for a minute or until the coffee solution becomes frothy and the brown color lightens a bit.
- 3
Add 6 to 7 ice cubes. For a thick cold coffee, you can reduce the ice cubes from 2 to 4.
- 4
Pour 2 cups cold milk.
- 5
Whole milk gives a slightly thicker consistency and is richer. You can opt to make the cold coffee with skimmed milk or low-fat milk. If you decided to add either, then reduce the ¼ cup water to about 2 to 3 tablespoons.
- 6
Blend for 1 to 2 minutes or until the milk is mixed evenly with the coffee concoction and you see a nice frothy layer on top.
- 7
Pour in glasses and serve cold coffee. The frothy top layer will settle into the beverage as it sits, so it’s best to enjoy blended iced coffee right away.
- 8
Serve cold coffee immediately after blending, while it is chilled and frothy. Enjoy it plain or with a light topping of ice cream (vanilla or chocolate) or drizzle some chocolate syrup.
- 9
Cold coffee is best consumed fresh. Avoid storing or refrigerating, as the texture and taste change once the ice melts.