How To Make Iced Coffee At Home? Step By Step Guide

The iced coffee season is here — and we’re already dreaming of ways to make our favorite caffeine-fuelled, refreshing drink our own.

If you are wondering how to make iced coffee at home, here is the right place for you.

You can easily satisfy your caffeine craving with this straightforward recipe. Just have a try after reading!

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How To Make Iced Coffee?

Ingredients

1 ½ cups hot coffee
1 teaspoon sugar, or to taste
½ cup milk (2% or whole milk is best), or to taste
ice

Steps

Make one and a half cups of coffee, then pour it into a tall glass. Coffee should be chilled in the refrigerator or freezer for 30 to 45 minutes.
After the coffee has cooled, flavor it with sugar and milk.
Add ice to the glass and stir well.
Enjoy! Serve right away.

Notes

dislike sweet beverages or milky coffee? Serve your iced coffee black instead of adding sugar or milk.

If you’d rather, use simple syrup instead of regular sugar to sweeten your coffee.

Use syrups, extracts, spices, and other flavorings to give your coffee a coffee shop-inspired taste. For many delicious suggestions, refer to the article’s tips.

Use half and half in place of milk for a more indulgent treat.

Nutrition

Calories: 88kcal

Can To Put Hot Coffee On Ice?

In theory, you could just pour hot coffee over ice. But I wouldn’t advise it!

Your coffee won’t get as cold and the ice will dilute it… and perfect The coffee for iced tea must be very cold.

Use coffee ice cubes rather than regular ones if you’d prefer to make your beverage with hot coffee… that way your coffee won’t be diluted and watery tasting. Fill an ice cube tray with any leftover coffee, then place it in the freezer for an entire night to create coffee ice cubes.

Add a few coffee ice cubes to your freshly brewed coffee in the morning. The cubes will cool your coffee without diluting the flavor as would regular ice. When your coffee has cooled, add sugar and milk to taste, then top with more coffee ice cubes or regular ice.

Things You Could Buy To Help You Make Iced Coffee

GLASS MUGS: I adore this glass mug and use it for both tea and coffee. They can be microwaved and are big.
Tall glasses are what I use for iced tea, iced coffee, and any other beverage that calls for ice.
WE HAVE A POOL AREA AND USE THEM OUTSIDE OFTEN IN THE WARMER WEATHER, SO I ALSO HAVE THIS SET OF TALL PLASTIC GLASSES OF PLASTIC THAT ARE NOT BREAKABLE. They are safe for the dishwasher.
If you wear tall glasses, a tall spoon is a necessity.
You would adore these silicone ice cube trays even if your refrigerator already has an ice maker built in. I really like how the cube molds are shaped (they look lovely in a glass), and bendable silicone makes them very simple to remove. These are excellent for making coffee ice cubes, which is another option.
We have a small coffee station in our kitchen, and since I don’t always want to dirty our spoons, these wooden stirrer sticks are useful.
A GLASS MEASURING CUP is a necessity that you may already have in your kitchen (I’m pretty sure I have three or four of them).
REUSABLE STRAWS: These days, I use them for every beverage I consume. A straw cleaner is included with this set, which is convenient to have.
I recently started using this sweetener for tea and coffee, and I’m now completely smitten. IT’S MY FAVORITE NO-CALORIE SWEETENER. No aftertaste!

Difference Between Cold Brew And Iced Coffee

Simply pouring freshly brewed coffee over ice in a glass makes iced coffee. On the other hand, if you want to get a little more specific, iced coffee is made with espresso that has been brewed for about 25 seconds.

Cold brew takes a lot longer and is a little less simple. Cold brew involves steeping coarsely ground coffee in cold water for at least 12 hours, as opposed to simply pouring regularly brewed coffee over ice.