The Ultimate List Of Cold Brew Recipes
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Make cold brew coffee recipes and iced coffee drinks this summer for frugal savings. Plus, keto-friendly fruit smoothies like coconut milk & almond milk!
Cold brew recipes and iced coffee have long been our afternoon summer drink choices.
I’m sharing delicious cold brew coffee recipes today, including our frugal iced coffee version.
There’s a difference between our quick cold brew coffee (iced coffee) and authentic cold brew concentrate.
I’ll explain the process below, and you can decide which to make.
Perhaps you’ll want to make both, although the money you save is worth the process.
For creamy summer drink recipes, we turn to fruit smoothies with keto-friendly berries, coconut milk, almond milk, or macadamia nut milk.
Save Money Making Cold Brew Recipes At Home
In 2012, I wrote a blog post about the costs of buying coffee at the shops vs. making it at home.
The post was sincere and an eye-opener for anyone who didn’t realize its cost.
Local coffee shops such as Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and McDonald’s are swamped this time of year.
While going through the parking lot of a shopping center, I noticed that McDonald’s offers $1 iced coffee.
Forget about buying iced coffee; I’ll show you how to make it home for nickels.
Small Expenses Add Up
It has always been the small expenses that boost budget costs due to recognition failure.
A few dollars here and there 2 or 3 times a day calculates into hundreds of dollars a month.
Besides the financial aspect of buying cold brew coffee creations, I wanted to explore new recipes.
Let me show you how to save your budget from exploding by making cold brew coffees at home.
How To Make Instant Cold Brew (Iced Coffee)
While at Zehrs last week and at Costco, I noticed both stores carry cold brew cans.
Every time I see this, I laugh because I think cold brew is just cold coffee.
Although the way we make it costs significantly less, it comes with taste differences.
We take a Tupperware pitcher every two days and add four tablespoons of instant coffee and hot water.
Our way, typically called “iced coffee,” is quicker and cheaper because it takes less time.
We stir up brewed black coffee and refrigerate it until it is chilled and ready to use.
That’s it, my friends. Cold black coffee = Iced coffee cold Beer in the CBB house.
Add a shot of cold espresso following the same procedure.
How To Make Authentic Cold Brew
Little did I know, but authentic cold brew coffee you get at specialty shops takes time.
Cold brew concentrate takes up to 12 hours, tastes sweeter and smoother, and has less acidity.
This is why a planning process exists for businesses that use actual cold brew concentrate.
Once the coffee beans are filtered, the concentrate is best used within two days for best results.
Cold-brew coffee, however, is made by steeping coarsely ground coffee beans in room-temperature water for six to 12 hours.
This creates a coffee concentrate you mix with cold water or milk. … (According to some estimates, “cold-brewed coffee is 67 percent less acidic than hot-brewed.”)
Vinepair.com
When the shop runs out of the cold brew concentrate, they are done for the day until more is made.
This is also why you will pay the high prices for a cold brew from shops such as Starbucks.
Time is money, as are good coffee beans.
Whether you make our frugal CBB version that you might know as “Iced coffee” or the “cold brew,” both are cheaper to make at home.
Now, to the fun part: cold brew coffee recipe creations.
Simple CBB Cold Brew Recipe (Iced Coffee)
As mentioned, we make a pitcher of the short version cold brew coffee at home as our base.
The following ingredients are added to make our Iced Cold Brew Coffee.
You can use this quick base recipe and add whatever flavors, sauces, and toppings you prefer.
- 1 cup cold brew coffee (iced coffee)
- 2 cups Unsweetened Macadamia Nut Milk or Oat Milk
- 1 tablespoon S’more skinny syrup or salted caramel skinny syrup
- 4 ice cubes
- Stir
- 1 tablespoon whipping cream blended with a milk frother until whipped for topping
Authentic Cold Brew Concentrate Recipe Ingredients
The good folks over at Vine Pair have the best cold brew concentrate recipe you’ll need.
Although it may cost you a bit more, it’s nothing compared to daily stops at fancy coffee shops.
As you can see, making cold brew concentrate is easy to do but time-consuming. Worth it, though.
Below is a mason jar sitting on our counter with fair trade 100% Columbian coffee beans.
In 12 hours, that jar will be authentic cold brew concentrated in any cold or iced coffee drink.
Kitchen Essentials For Making Cold Brew Recipes
Once the cold brew is cold, we must make our favourite iced coffee recipes frugally.
Our cold brew recipes are simple, but if you like whipped cream and sauces, go ahead and add them.
We’ve made a salted caramel cold brew coffee with whipped cream and homemade sugar-free caramel sauce.
Yes, it was delicious, and it didn’t cost us $6-$8 to make a big glass per person.
Our top cold brew coffee recipe is the Dalgona whipped coffee, which can be made hot or cold.
If you want to be summer-ready to serve cold brew coffee recipes, here’s what we stock in our kitchen.
We have both a hand frother mixer that is battery operated and an electric hot and cold frother.
Both are inexpensive and purchased from Amazon Canada and are highly recommended.
You’ll need a fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth (Dollar Store) and coffee beans to make cold brew.
There’s also a cool Mason Jar with a built-in stainless steel filter to make cold-brew quickly.
Products For Summer Cold Brew Coffee and Iced Coffee
If you camp this summer, stock up and bring these coffee essentials.
- Whole Coffee Beans
- Mesh Strainer or cheesecloth
- Ice-Cubes
- Instant Nescafe Coffee
- Instant Espresso
- Sugar or keto-friendly sweeteners
- Various extracts: pure vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon extract, etc.
- Unsweetened/Sweetened coconut milk, coconut cream
- Almond milk sweetened or unsweetened
- Macadamia nut milk unsweetened
- Sukrin Gold Sugar-Free Brown Sugar (amazing)
- Oat Milk, sweetened or unsweetened
- Coconut Oil (great for making chocolate sauce)
- Milk
- 35% Whipping cream
- 10% cream
- Chocolate Chips sweetened and unsweetened chocolate chips
- Various nuts: Almonds, slivered almonds, walnuts, pecans, cacao nibs, shredded coconut
- Hemp hearts
- Maple Syrup and Sugar-Free Maple Syrup
- Frozen berries: Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, mulberries, and rhubarb. (yes I know that’s not a berry).
Flavored syrups from Jordan’s Skinny Syrups or Torani Syrups, both of which you can buy on Amazon Canada.
You can purchase the sugar-free versions or the regular coffee syrups.
- Salted Caramel
- Butter Toffee
- Vanilla
- Peanut Butter Cup
- Mocha
- Irish Cream *this one was pretty awesome too.
- Brown Sugar Cinnamon
- Vanilla Caramel Creme
- Glazed Donut
You may want to add to the list, but we try to keep our pantry stocked for the summer.
Add fruity syrups, such as passionfruit, cherry, and strawberry.
Tall clear glasses are great for showing your cold brew recipes to friends and family.
8 Ultimate Cold Brew Coffee Recipes
Also, if you have Irish cream, Whiskey, Vodka, Gin, Tia Maria, or Rum, include a shot in your favorite cold brew recipes.
Salted Caramel Cream Cold Brew
Cold Brew Iced Tea
Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew
Cold Brew Recipe With Cinnamon Almond Milk Foam
Starbucks Irish Cream Cold Brew Coffee Recipe
S’mores Cold Brew Coffee
Iced Coffee Lemonade Recipe
Check out my favourite Starbucks Copy Cat drink recipes that are popular year-round.
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