A super easy and enjoyable cold coffee flavor to brew at home. It only requires some basic ingredients. This coffee flavor comes with an unmatched balance of caramel-like brown sugar and iced coffee. The brown sugar iced coffee gives a matchless taste, texture, and aroma.
This coffee has the balance of a bitter taste and a sweet smoother flavor. Before getting into the recipe, it is essential to understand the details of this drink.
Why is brown sugar added to iced coffee?
The brown sugar tastes quite similar to caramel. The molasses in brown sugar makes it richer and tastier than regular sugar. Also, brown sugar dissolves into syrup, it goes well with coffee and contributes a perfect combination with black coffee.
Brown also can easily dissolve into cold coffee and provides a more tantalizing texture with aroma. Otherwise, there is not much difference between brown sugar and white sugar.
Here is the recipe for iced breve coffee.
What is an iced coffee?
Iced coffee is simply a brewed coffee with added iced cubes. Coffee tastes strong and bitter when added to iced cubes making it pleasingly cold and delicious.
Also, espresso can be used as the base for iced coffee. Espresso is an intense and hot drink, however, it should be cooled down before adding iced cubes.
Different iced coffee flavors also add cold milk along with iced cubes. Instead of steamed or foamed milk, iced coffee requires slightly cold milk.
How to make brown sugar iced coffee at home?
This coffee flavor is a flexible drink that you can make with different variations and can add one or more flavored syrups. However, here I give you my recipe for this flavor.
Ingredients
- One cup of brewed coffee
- Two tablespoons of brown sugar or brown sugar syrup
- ¼ cup of whole milk or skimmed milk
- Half cup iced cubes
- Optionally, add a pinch of vanilla or cinnamon extracts
Instructions
- Brew coffee
Brewing one cup of black coffee using any method you prefer. A single cup of strong brewed coffee or make a concentrated shot of espresso. And let the coffee cool down for a few minutes.
- Iced cubes
Pick a glass and fill half a glass with iced cubes. You can add fewer iced cubes if you desire.
- Add coffee to the glass
When brewed coffee is cooled down, pour it into the glass of iced cubes.
- Add brown sugar
Now add two tablespoons of brown sugar to the glass. Stir it well to dissolve into the coffee.
- Add Milk
Pour milk at the top and stir well with a spoon.
- Add extracts
In the last step, top it with the extracts of cinnamon or vanilla. However, you can skip the extracts if you don’t like it.
Mixed the glass well before serving it. A glass of coffee is ready to drink.
Also check the iced red eye coffee.
What variations you can make in brown sugar iced coffee?
This cold coffee has so many options and varieties to brew with.
- You can brew it without adding milk. Instead make it with brewed coffee, brown sugar, and iced cubes.
- Add any spice or combination of spices to this coffee flavor. Add extracts of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, or any other spices.
- Making a hot coffee with brown sugar. By skipping iced cubes, you can make a hot coffee cup.
- Use half milk and half cream instead of using whole milk. This makes coffee creamier and fluffier.
- Make it a latte with brown sugar. Add two espresso shots and steamed milk to get a latte version.
Brown sugar iced coffee
Ingredients
- 1 cup brewed coffee
- 1 glass half glass iced cubes
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 cup whole milk
- 1 tbps cinnamon extracts
Instructions
- Make one cup of brewed coffee
- Let the cool down for a few minutes
- Add iced cubes to the glass and fill half the glass with iced cubes
- now pour cooled coffee into the glass of iced cubes
- Add two tablespoons of brown sugar to the coffee glass
- Pour milk at the top and stir well with a spoon
- Add cinnamon extracts at the top
Notes
- You can brew it without adding milk. Instead make it with brewed coffee, brown sugar, and iced cubes.
- Add any spice or combination of spices to this coffee flavor. Add extracts of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, or any other spices.
- Making a hot coffee with brown sugar. By skipping iced cubes, you can make a hot coffee cup.
- Use half milk and half cream instead of using whole milk. This makes coffee creamier and fluffier.
- make it a latte with brown sugar. Add two espresso shots and steamed milk to get a latte version.
Taste of Brown sugar iced coffee
The strong pungent flavor of coffee combines with the caramel like taste of brown sugar. It has a hint of molasses and a slight smokey undertone
This iced coffee is a refreshingly milder, sweeter, and creamier taste.
Calories in Brown sugar iced coffee
Brown sugar adds most of the calories in this drink. If you add milk and other flavors the calorie content will increase.
A single cup has around 125 to 145 calories.
Brown sugar iced coffee Starbucks
This coffee flavor isn’t on the menu of Starbucks. However, Starbucks has other iced coffee flavors. You can order a customized drink, and ask Barista to add brown sugar to iced coffee.
However, another Starbucks trademark drink is iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso.
Another delicious coffee flavor is iced cortado.
Final thoughts
A refreshingly cold and delicious coffee can be added with different flavors and syrups. The combination of brown sugar and brewed coffee with iced cubes gives you an amazing option on summer days.
