Summer is here, or at least feels like summer here in Dublin 🙂 This drink is quite popular during warmer months in Bulgaria, as you can enjoy your favorite drink with ice – cold iced coffee. Frappe was invented in Thessaloniki, Greece, by a Nescafe representative who prepared his instant coffee with cold water instead of hot, this method had very quickly become popular and part of the coffee culture.I had lived there for a few months, and I could see Frappe on any coffee or restaurant menu.

I haven’t had a frappe for a while, and this weekend decided to try to make a few versions. It is easy, quick, and simple, but you may need a hand milk whisker or shaker to help you create foam. Of course, you can prepare without the foam, but it will be just cold coffee with milk. There are quite a few variations even with fruits, which I did try with bananas, but my proportions were not very good, so today is just the classic one and coconut variant.

Servings: 1 Time to prepare: 5 min

How to:

• In a glass place the water, instant coffee and the honey or sugar and mix well with the foam mixer until all the mixture turns to foam.
• Start adding the milk slowly while mixing.
• When you stop you should have around 1/3 foam- the more the better.
• Add ice cubes, straw and enjoy 🙂

For the coconut variant:

• Additional step is to mix the coconut milk with the coconut creme to homogenuius mixture.
• Add the honey or sugar if you prefer.
• Add slowly to the Nescafe/insant coffee foam.

Note: I don’t add sugar or honey to my coffee as usually the oat milk is quite mild and sweet for me. You can skip the honey step if you drink unsweetened coffee.

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Enjoy 🙂

PS: if you have tried with fruits let me know, I am still experimenting with fresh one 🙂