A Coffee Drink Like Frappuccino…

Like those little bottles of Frappuccino but tired of spending all that money? Keep your empties and try this recipe to refill them for a lot less money.

To make this recipe you will need a blender and must be able to brew coffee, I have not tried it with instant coffee but suspect it would not yield the expected results. The following recipe will refill 3 of the 9.5oz bottles Starbucks sells in most stores (they are convenient and can be used over and over). I should also mention that 1 pot of coffee should allow you to make the recipe 3 times, but I would not make more than you will drink in 5 days or so (assuming the milk used was dated to last that long in the first place) just to be sure they remain fresh.

DIRECTIONS:
Add 4 heaping tablespoons of Swiss Miss Instant Cocoa and optionally 2 tablespoons of sugar to the blender. Now fill the blender to the 3 cup mark with hot coffee followed by one cup of milk (filling the blender to 4 cups). At this point I add the whipped cream until the blender is just about full (we have a 5 cup blender that will hold 6 cups before overflowing). If using ‘Cool Whip’ go with about 1/3 of an 8oz container. Blend the ingredients on high for 30 seconds or so, the mixture ends up with some ‘foam’ on top so you may need to let it settle a bit (actually I fill the bottles in the sink so I can fill them to the top with liquid and allow the foam to overflow before capping them and rinsing them off). That’s it, they should be kept in the fridge until cold and ready to drink, shake well and enjoy from the bottle or over ice…

NOTE:
I use the ‘real’ whipped cream you buy in a pressurized can (like Reddi Whip), I have also tried ‘Cool Whip’ and it tastes fine if you prefer, since it is less expensive (but is actually an oil based ‘topping’). You could also just leave the whipped cream out to save on calories…

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