Get the recipe for a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino to make one at home. This recipe is one I came up with. I desired a product with the same flavor as big brands but at a lower price. I used just coffee, milk, and sugar in the recipe. For a month, the concentrate is safe to store in the refrigerator.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 day 1 hr 30 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 2 quarts |
Ingredients
- 6 cups cold water
- ½ pound dark roast ground coffee beans
- cheesecloth
- coffee filters
- 5 cups 1% milk
- ½ (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup hot tap water
Instructions
- Mix 6 cups water and coffee in a 1/2-gallon jar (such as Ball) until grounds are completely saturated. Steep for 24 hours at room temperature, stirring occasionally.
- Transfer coffee to the refrigerator and chill for 1 hour.
- Place a small colander on top of a tall, lidded plastic container. Line the colander with a 6-inch square of cheesecloth; fit a coffee filter on top.
- Pour about 1 cup of the coffee into the colander until filter begins to clog. Lift the corners of the cheesecloth carefully; twist the cloth and filter to extract the liquid. Drain the remaining liquid 1 cup at a time, using a new coffee filter each time. Repeat the process with the grounds, filtering 1 cup at a time; squeeze out as much liquid as you can. Refrigerate the concentrate until ready to use.
- Combine concentrate, 1% milk, and condensed milk in a 1/2-gallon jar.
- Dissolve 3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sugar and cocoa powder together in a bowl of hot tap water. Add to the coffee-milk mixture; cover the jar and shake well.
- Use your favorite brand of coffee. I don’t think the coarseness of the grounds is an issue. Fine-ground coffee may offer more flavor, but it will be harder to filter.
- I started this recipe using whole milk. That combined with the condensed milk was kind of like a lactose bomb and was tough on the tummy, so I use 1% now. Feel free to use any grade of low-fat milk you prefer.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 227 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 37 g |
| Cholesterol | 21 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 146 mg |
| Sugars | 35 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The drink was perfect the way it was. I found no need to change it, yes I made it both ways. I’ll stick with the original thank you.
It came out really good. Not too difficult to make. I added a little more of the sweetened condensed milk than the recipe called for to make it a little sweeter, since I like my coffee with a lot of sweetener.
Cheaper and better than Starbucks.