How to Make Low Calorie Frozen Coffee

Frozen coffee drinks are refreshing in the summer time, but most of them are very high in calories. A cup of black coffee has around 3 calories. Add a teaspoon of sugar and a little bit of milk, and the calories go up to around 40. But most frozen coffee drinks purchased from restaurants are upwards of 500 calories. Keep the calorie count down by making frozen coffee at home.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Put 6 or 7 ice cubes into your blender. Add 1 cup of milk and 1 tbs. instant coffee. To make your frozen coffee low fat, choose skim or 1 percent milk.

2. Choose your flavors for your frozen coffee. You can skip adding a flavor if you like your frozen coffee to taste like coffee. Some popular flavor choices include vanilla, almond extract and chocolate syrup. Add the flavor of your choice to the blender. Use approximately 1 tbs., more of less, depending on your taste preference.

3. Add sweetener to the blender, based on your taste preference. To keep the frozen coffee low in calories use an artificial sweetener such as saccharin, aspartame or sucralose. Each of these are sold under many different brand names.

4. Turn on the blender and blend the ingredients for 1 to 2 minutes. When the beverage is well blended, pour it into a chilled glass and enjoy.

Tips & Warnings

• You can pour left over brewed coffee into ice cube trays and freeze it. Then use the coffee ice cubes instead of regular ice cubes when making frozen coffee. If you use coffee ice cubes, reduce the amount of instant coffee to 1/2 tbs.
• To make your frozen coffee thicker or creamier, try adding 1/2 banana to the blender or 1/2 cup of frozen yogurt.

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[MrsStolz]

on 1/12/2009 Sounds great! I can't wait to try this!