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Ingredients
- 12 oz vanilla flavored coffee
- 6 c whole milk
- 1 c sugar
- 1 t powdered cocoa (Neslte or perhaps Hershey syrup)
- 5 empty bottles
Details
Preparation
Step 1
First, here’s how we did it:
1. Sterilize some bottles. We boiled 5 Starbucks bottles (and their caps) for about 10 minutes.
2. Brew 12 oz. of vanilla flavored coffee.
3. In a pot, mix coffee with 6 cups of whole milk, 1 cup of sugar, and a little less than 1 tsp of powdered cocoa mix (might work fine with Hershey syrup, but we used Nestle’s Carlos V mix).
4. Stir it up and ladle it into the bottles. Done in less than 20 minutes!
This completely filled 5 bottles and would have mostly filled a 6th if we’d had that many. It tastes really good! Not exactly like a frap, but it’s our first batch, and it’s got its own personality.
Now, the cost: A regular 4-pack of fraps at the grocery store costs $5, or $1.25/bottle. A single bottle at a gas station is around $1.79.
Our total cost for all 5 bottles was $1.85. That’s $0.37/bottle. Unbelievable. It tastes even better when you know that!
As I was mixing it, I was amazed at how much milk there was. When you buy a frappuccino, you’re basically buying a bottle of milk with tiny amounts of other flavorings in it.
The next time we try this, we’ll cut back on the sugar a little (maybe 3/4 cup) and make the coffee a little stronger. Now that we know how easy, fun, and cheap it is, I’m sure we’ll make more batches of Kurfee in the future, dadgummit.
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