Pistachio Frappe

Fantastic, refreshing, cruelly tasty. A perfect match of coffee + ice creams. Worth trying!

Recipe is my own idea.

Ingredients:

• 1-2 teaspoons of favourite instant coffee*
• 1-3 ice cream scoops of pistachio ice cream
• 1-2 drops of vanilla extract or 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla syrup

Optional ingredients:

• 1-2 teaspoons of sugar

Decoration:

• a few pistachios, grounded, to sprinkle the top
• another ice cream scoop of pistachio ice cream
• chocolate, vanilla or pistachio syrup/mousse

*This frappe can be prepared with ground coffee in a coffee maker, but then, it is necessary to take only the essence of the coffee - espresso. It is possible to use double espresso. 


Preparation:

1. Prepare blender and its cube cutter.
2. While using instant coffee, put it in the cube cutter with pistachio ice cream, vanilla and - optionally - sugar and mix till smooth or even till the natural foam appears.
3. Pour it into a latte glass.
4. Decorate.
5. Bon Appetit! :)

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1. While using ground coffee - prepare it, pour it (for instance) to a small coffee pot, cool down and put in the freezer for max. 20 minutes.
2. Keep checking - it cannot totally freeze. Take it out from the freezer, put in a cube cutter with other ingredients and blend till smooth or till the natural foam appears.
3. Decorate.
4. Bon Appetit! :)
   
   
   

Banana Coffee

I haven't posted any coffee ideas for a quite long time, so here is one :) It isn't a hot coffee, rather room temperature one or frappe. Very filling. 

That recipe comes from my friend.

Ingredients (for 1 glass):

• 1 banana
• 1/2-3/4 glass of milk
• 1-2 teaspoons of instant coffee
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon (or more, if you like)

Optional ingredients:

• sugar
• ice cubes
• optional topping: whipped cream, caramel/chocolate sauce, cinnamon, chocolate chips, cocoa

Preparation:

1. Put the banana in the freezer for 10-15 minutes (optional).
2. Take a blender with its bowl, put coffee and cinnamon inside, add sugar-if you want, add banana, blend till smooth.
3. Add milk, blend again.
4. Add ice cubes, mix till smooth (= till you don't hear them cracking).
5. Decorate the topping with your favourite ingredient.
6. Bon Appetit! :)

Raspberry Frappe

What an extremely hot day, here, in Poland! The real summer is not with us yet, buuut to my great astonishment, we could experience a Sahara conditions today! So how to cool yourself down during such muggy day? A raspberry frappe is the answer - cooling down & waking up miracle. Surprisingly, raspberries matches here. :) But unfortunately strawberries don't (I tried).
The recipe comes from: http://www.mkcafe.pl/przepisy-kawowe/przepisy/malinowe-frappe

Ingredients (for 2 cups):

• 60-80 g of raspberries
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 square of dark chocolate (optional)
• 2-4 ice cubes
• espresso/coffee*
• 100 ml of 30-36% cream or steamed milk
• chocolate chips (optional)

* no measure of ml here, because it depends on the height of your glass (it is good to take Irish coffee glass) and on your own taste.

Preparation:

1. Prepare ice cubes if you don't have any.
2. Prepare your coffee. Leave it till it cools down
3. Put raspberries, sugar and chocolate in food processor. Mix till smooth.
4. Put the puree on the bottom of your glass. Add ice.
5. Tilt the glass and carefully, pour the coffee slowly on the side of the glass (it is advisable to prepare a coffee in a jug - it is easier to put its spout on the edge of the coffee glass and pour the coffee slowly into the glass) It needs to be done carefully not to mess up the fruit puree bottom.
6. Put whipped cream or steamed milk on the top. Add chocolate chips on the top if you want to.
7. Bon appetit :)