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A creamy homemade café frappé, this blended iced coffee is a quick and easy drink you can make at home. Skip the coffee shop line and personalize this tasty iced coffee your way.
Is it possible to make a cold and creamy blended iced coffee at home just like your favorite coffee shop? You bet, and I’ll show you how!
Most frozen coffee drinks you’ll buy at the shops are super smooth because of excessive amounts of syrups, sugar, and expensive powdered mixes.
My version uses a mix of homemade cold brew, coffee ice cubes, and your favorite milk or creamer. That’s it!
And if you’re feeling a bit extra (and you should be), serve your fancy-pants homemade iced blended coffee with a big ol’ bakery style cinnamon roll muffin or a slice of ham and cheese quiche. Tipping your server and wearing pants are both optional.
Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
- If your blender is underpowered, let the cubes sit at room temperature for 10 minutes with the milk and cold brew. This will soften them up a little bit to make for easier blending, while still giving the drink an icy base.
- You can use whatever milk works best for your dietary needs.
- Once you’ve strained your cold brew, get another batch started and make more ice cubes. I transfer my concentrate to a half-gallon canning jar and keep that in the fridge.
- I like throwing a scoop of collagen or protein powder in mine from time to time. Use your favorite brand.
Better than coffee shop Blended Iced Coffee
Equipment
- ice cube trays
Ingredients
Making Cold Brew Concentrate
- 1/2 cup coarsley ground coffee
- 30 oz cold water {3.75 cups}
Blended Iced Coffee
- 1/3 cup chilled cold brew concentrate
- 1/4 cup milk of choice or half-and-half or creamer
- 8 coffee ice cubes {instructions below} {about 1 oz each}
Instructions
Making Cold Brew Concentrate
- Combine coarsely ground organic coffee with cold water. If you prefer your coffee dark, increase the amount of grounds to 1 cup.1/2 cup coarsley ground coffee, 30 oz cold water
- Let your coffee sit for 12-18 hours. The longer it sits, the stronger it gets.
Making Coffee Ice Cubes
- Add some of the cold brew to an ice cube tray and freeze for 4-5 hours.
Making Blended Iced Coffee
- Combine coffee ice cubes, milk, cold brew concentrate, and milk/creamer in a blender.1/3 cup chilled cold brew concentrate, 1/4 cup milk of choice or half-and-half or creamer, 8 coffee ice cubes {instructions below}
- Blend on high for 1-2 minutes or until the coffee is creamy and smooth.
Notes
- Each ice cube in the tray I used is 3/4 oz.
- If your blender struggles with actually blending ice, let the coffee cubes sit for 10 minutes with the milk and cold brew. This will soften them up a little bit to make for easier blending, while still giving the coffee an icy base.
- You can use whatever milk works best for your dietary needs.
- Once you’ve strained your cold brew, get another batch started and make more ice cubes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Why coarsely ground coffee? I would think fine ground coffee would get you better flavour, more contact with the water.
It’s an absolute pain in the butt to filter finely ground coffee. Even with coarsely ground coffee, I double filter my cold brew.
Feel free to use what works best for you, but expect to filter it multiple times to get the *crunchy* taste out.
So do you strain the coffee grounds or blend them up? Or do they dissolve after sitting?
I strain!
Love this coffee drink!
I know you’re a black coffee fan Tina, so I am honored you enjoyed a “fancy” coffee drink of mine. 🙂
Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe you have in coffee. It must be delicious. Can’t wait to try them out!
I was hesitant about this because normally I hate collagen powder, but this was great! Tasted so good 🙂 Thanks for the recipe. Now I can use all the collagen powder that’s been pushed to the back of my pantry!
Justice, I’m so glad you enjoyed it and it worked out for you. Hurray for using up the rest of the collagen powder! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Just got my first Thrive order and I got Nutpods creamer. I love my hot coffee black, but my iced coffee with a little extra. Questions-
Are you still using the Rumble Jar to make your cold brew?
Do you ever make your iced coffee not blended?
What coffee do you buy?
Yahoo! Do you love it?
Yes, I am still using my Rumble Jar. I now prefer blended iced coffee but I will make plain iced coffee if I don’t have time for the blender (or I need to be quiet). I buy whatever organic and shade grown coffee Costco happens to have at the moment. The brand seems to change every few months.
Sorry I think I’m being a little dense. When you say: MAKING COFFEE ICE CUBES: Add your cold brew to an ice cube tray and freeze for 4-5 hours, do you mean that I should separate from the coffee concentrate make just a regular batch of coffee and chill it and then turn it into ice cubes. OR do you mean use the coffee concentrate to make ice cubes? Thanks!
Coffee concentrate and cold brew are the same thing. So, once you make the cold brew/concentrate, you’ll freeze some of it into ice cubes. Make sure to reserve some for the blending.
If you plan to just brew normal coffee and then chill it and freeze it, that totally works too! Hot brewed coffee tends to be more acidic than cold brew but it is totally up to you.
Let me know if that clears it up. I want the directions to be as clear as possible so I’ll edit it if needed!
Thanks so much! That makes a lot of sense. I’ve bought cold brew, but never made it before. Excited to try out this recipe!
Sooooo much cheaper to make it! Happy sipping.
Oh, bless you! It’s in the 80s in Alabama and it’s time to switch from hot coffee to cold. I started putting collagen in my coffee this winter and I was just wondering if it would work in iced. Can’t wait to try this!!
I’m sorry…80’s in April? That should not be allowed!!
What brand of collagen are you using?
LOL, there’s no spring, only tornado season. It was in the 40s Saturday for our neighborhood egg hunt!
Currently using Sports Research collagen from Amazon but once it’s out I’ll be checking Costco for the Vital Proteins