Wednesday, July 15, 2009


Iced cappuccinos, particularly those from Tim Hortons but any frosty creamy coffee flavoured drink is one of my favourite summer indulgences.

On a good day caffeine makes me wired so I avoid it, now being pregnant I have an even better reason to avoid caffeine. So I have been making my own iced capps at home. The tastiest recipe I've found is this:
homemade iced cappuccino
1 cup skim milk
1 tsp instant coffee powder (or you could use a bit of brewed coffee if you had some leftover)
4 tsp sugar
4-6 ice cubes

Blend until slushy and frothy and enjoy.
This also has much less fat than the store bought variety so I can enjoy it with less guilt :)

But I have been experimenting and to make it even better I save any leftover decaf flavoured coffee that I make every so often in the morning and freeze it in ice cube trays. I cut the instant coffee powder down and use frozen flavoured coffee cubes, mmmm. I hear the blender calling my name now :)

Not to mention this way is much cheaper, so that's what works for me.
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3 comments:

Blessed Beyond a doubt.... said...

Yummy! I'm pregnant, too. I just pour coffee and flavored creamer over ice.

Jill
http://tonsofsons.wordpress.com/

Cindy said...

I'm gonna give this a try...thanks for sharing!!

Jeni said...

Sounds great - but I think I may add some of the chocolate-milk powder I have for my daughter, and make it into a mocha! Mmmmm!

 

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