Arcadia Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Anyone making their own while being bored? My kids did with Nestle instant coffee and whisking by hand. They didn’t whisk 4000 times 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 And how does it taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Starr said: And how does it taste? One teen finds it too strong but sweet enough. The other teen just drank it up. We use instant coffee: sugar: hot water at a ratio of 1:1:1 for the “foam” ETA: 3 ice cubes and whatever amount of milk they prefer for the milk portion Edited April 4, 2020 by Arcadia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I must be living under a rock -- I'd not heard I'd this! Now I'll have to pick up instant coffee so we can experiment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 3 minutes ago, Seasider too said: Why in the world would I revert to instant coffee? Yes, my kids have talked about this. I will not enable them. 😂 You can substitute matcha powder or chocolate powder for instant coffee 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) Ha! I literally did this today! I started with the milk frother I had and it did thicken but it didn’t have that cool whip look to it. So I dumped it in my bullet mixer hoping that would work faster. Hmm. Better but dang still more like gravy than cop whip looking. So I looked at the recipe again wondering if 20 minutes into this I missed a detail. And past all the pics and blah blah blah. There’s a little off closing comment of “it might take 8-30 minutes to get peaks”. What the hell? Ain’t no one got time for that and quarantine isn’t making me one bit more patient. So I dumped the bullet contents in my ninja with a bunch of ice and tada! It was a fabulous frappacino!! Made an entire pitcher of it. Edited April 5, 2020 by Murphy101 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 26 minutes ago, Seasider too said: Why in the world would I revert to instant coffee? Yes, my kids have talked about this. I will not enable them. 😂 bc it’s really cheap and you don’t have to waste premium freshingly brewed coffee or wait for said fresh hot coffee to cool off enough to use to make a cold drink. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Could I use an electric hand mixer? (I don't have a whisk attachment, though...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, alisoncooks said: Could I use an electric hand mixer? (I don't have a whisk attachment, though...) Yes. Or even a blender. It’s really up to you. ETA: I used a bowl that I normally use for whisking eggs for baking sponge cake. Edited April 5, 2020 by Arcadia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 I make it all the time but I add hot milk to mine. I learned it from an Indian co-worker more than 15 years ago and have always made it when I was the only person drinking coffee and brewing fresh coffee was too much work. I use my cuisinart hand held mixer and sometimes add sweetened condensed milk to the recipe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy101 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 3 minutes ago, alisoncooks said: Could I use an electric hand mixer? (I don't have a whisk attachment, though...) no!! Well maybe. It starts out with a very watery consistency so if you do - it better be a really deep bowl or glass bc it will splash everywhere for about 2 feet in all directions otherwise. I started with the milk frother in a deep bowl. It was not deep enough. 🤦♀️ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, mathnerd said: I make it all the time but I add hot milk to mine. I learned it from an Indian co-worker more than 15 years ago and have always made it when I was the only person drinking coffee and brewing fresh coffee was too much work. Indian beaten coffee https://www.honeywhatscooking.com/milky-frothy-indian-style-cappuccino/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 20 minutes ago, Arcadia said: Indian beaten coffee https://www.honeywhatscooking.com/milky-frothy-indian-style-cappuccino/ Yes! this is it 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 So the recipe I followed just gave a ratio of coffee/sugar/water. I just grabbed a measuring cup (3/4 c., *snort*), which made an OBSCENE amount of foam, lol. I liked it, oldest DD said it was a little too strong. Youngest DD rinsed her mouth out after taking a sip. I stuck the remaining foam in the fridge so we'll have it again tomorrow. Or would freezer be better? (Also, we started with a whisk but hit a wall, then switched to hand mixer. That moved things along well!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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