Instant Coffee Recipes

Many times, we wonder why is it so difficult to make a nice cup of coffee at home, like the one we get in the coffee shop. At the same time, we keep hoping we knew some instant coffee recipes, which we can use and make a wonderful coffee for ourselves. Well let me tell you, making coffee is not rocket science. You will very easily we able to whip up wonderful coffee for yourself. At the same time, let me tell you instant coffee is still pure coffee. It is actually regularly brewed coffee, where all the water is neatly removed. It is not a mysterious process and there are no strange chemical adulterations made to the coffee.

How to Make Instant Coffee

There are times, when we prefer hot coffee, there are other times, we like iced coffee. You will find below recipes for both iced coffee as well as for warm coffee. To make coffee, you necessarily need not have coffee machines.

Warm Instant Coffee
This is my favorite coffee, especially, when it is chilly. Let's see how do we make these coffee drink recipes.

Ingredients

• Sugar 1 cup
• Non Fat Dry Milk Powder 1 cup
• Powdered Non-Dairy Creamer ½ cup
• Cocoa ½ cup
• Powdered Instant Coffee 3 tablespoons
• Ground Allspice ½ teaspoon
• Cinnamon ¼ teaspoon

Method

• In a large bowl combine all the ingredients and mix well.
• Store this mixture in an airtight container.
• Whenever, you want to make a coffee, take 3 tablespoons of the mixture and combine it with ¾ cup boiling water for a single serving. If you want to make a number of servings, you can accordingly change the quantity.
• Stir well and your coffee is ready.

Instant Iced Coffee
This is a recipe for a frothy, iced cappuccino style coffee, where we will use coffee crystals. If you are planning to start experimenting with gourmet coffee drinks, then this is one coffee recipe, which you will most certainly want to try out. Let's find out, what are the coffee ingredients.

Ingredients

• Instant Coffee Crystals 1 teaspoon
• Heavy Cream 4 tablespoons
• Vanilla 1 teaspoon
• Ice Cubes 4
• Water ¾ cup
• Sugar 2 teaspoons

Method

• In a blender add the coffee crystals, water and sugar and blend well till you see a frothy and smooth mixture.
• Then add cream, vanilla and ice cubes to it and blend well again, to savor a lip smacking coffee.

Flavored Coffee Recipes

Now we will see some recipes for flavored instant coffee.

Recipe # 1 - Mocha Frappe
Ingredients

• Double Strength coffee (chilled) 7 oz
• Ice Cubes 18
• Chocolate Sauce or Syrup ¼ cup
• Vanilla Syrup 2 teaspoons
• Whipped Cream for garnishing
• Ice Cream 1 dollop

Method

• In a blender, blend ice coffee, chocolate sauce and vanilla syrup.
• Make sure you blend till smooth.
• Pour the coffee in a tall large glass and garnish with whipped cream and ice cream.

Recipe # 2 - Iced Cinnamon Coffee
Ingredients

• Strong Coffee (to make one cup of coffee, mix 3 teaspoons of instant coffee with 1 cup of boiling water) 4 cups
• Cinnamon Stick (3") 1
• Heavy Cream ½ cup
• Coffee Syrup

Method

• Break the cinnamon stick into small pieces. Pour hot coffee over the cinnamon, cover and let it stand for about an hour.
• Remove the cinnamon sticks and add cream to the coffee.
• Chill the coffee in the refrigerator and to serve pour into ice filled glasses.
• Add coffee syrup as per taste.
• If you like it, you can serve it with whipped cream or ice cream.
• Garnish with ground cinnamon.

Recipe # 3 - Italian Mocha Espresso
Ingredients

• Instant Coffee 1 cup
• Sugar 2 tablespoons
• Non Fat Dry Milk 4 ½ cups
• Cocoa ½ cup

Method

• Place all the ingredients in a blender and stir together.
• Make sure all the ingredients are powdered in the blender.
• Use two tablespoons of the mixture and add it to one small cup of hot water to make one serving.

Now that you know a number of instant coffee recipes, which one will you want to try out first?