Starbucks, I don't need you anymore! Okay, that's overstating things... Starbucks, I need you slightly less :-)
I love an iced coffee, all frothy and full of caffeine. But the recipes for the blended coffee drinks all called for cold coffee which I never had on hand in the morning. So I've been working on creating a supply of coffee ice cubes with the leftover coffee in the morning. Believe it or not, the ice cube trays cleaned up nicely and weren't stained.
So this morning I experimented with Megan. I used about a cup of Silk light vanilla soy milk, about a tablespoon of chocolate syrup, and about 2 cups of the coffee ice cubes.
I started out using the frozen dessert setting. I needed to use the tamper to push the ice cubes into the blades.
Everything was blended very nicely, but I thought it looked a little thick. I added another half cup of soy milk and ran it through the smoothie setting (a slightly shorter blend cycle).
This created the perfect consistency, but it also created a lot more than I really needed! (Poor Richard isn't home, so I guess I'll have to drink the whole thing all by myself!)
Even though this recipe ended up having a higher ratio of soy milk to coffee, the ice cubes really have a concentrated coffee taste, so it was nicely balanced. If you're using regular milk I imagine you would need to sweeten the drink in some way, but maybe the hit of chocolate syrup would be enough.
All in all this experiment was a success! I should be bouncing off the walls any moment now...
