Homemade Starbucks ® Bottled Frappuccino ® Recipe
Anybody that knows me will tell you that I have just a bit of an addiction to Starbucks ®. Just check my Facebook check-ins. For the longest time I thought I was becoming addicted somehow to their coffee. Did they have me hooked? Were they controlling my need for their highly caffeinated drinks? Well I realized it wasn’t their coffee I was hooked on. It was the “Starbucks Community”.
What I mean by this is that I love just sitting at their coffee houses. If you ever spend any time at all at Starbucks ®, you will find that you see the same people around the same times day after day. It’s a social community. It’s somewhere I and these others have found to hang out and enjoy the company of others. I have to say, that it is like an extended family. So no. I am not addicted to Starbucks ® coffee (see I believe that), but I am addicted to the community around their coffee shops.
One thing I am addicted too is iced coffee. Thanks to my best friend Allen who started bringing them to me on Saturday nights before we would head out for drinks. So when I discovered it bottled in the stores, you know I was now finding quite a few of their empty bottles in my recycle bin. Then I realized that I was paying around $2.50 a bottle for something I could make at home for quite a bit less. Actually I was able to make it for about 45¢. That’s right. I could save just a bit over $2.00 per drink. Guess who has a pitcher of this wonderful drink in his refrigerator now. That’s right, this guy. But you will still find me on a regular basis sitting outside a Starbucks ® talking with new friends.
So for those of you who love this drink, here is the recipe I use. And if you like drinking it on the guy in a bottle. Grab a pint sized canning jar. I do this quite often. Well, on a hot Saturday you may find me with a quart jar of this stuff when I am working around the yard.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups brewed coffee*
- 6 cups milk (whole milk makes for a thicker drink)
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 5 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa
- (Substitute for the cocoa, 5 teaspoons vanilla flavoring for the vanilla version or 5 teaspoons caramel flavoring for the caramel version)
Brew your coffee (I like mine very strong) and then pour into a medium to large size pot. Add sugar and cocoa. Stir until cocoa is dissolved or well blended. Add milk and stir until completely mixed. Pour into your storage containers and refrigerate.