Guilt Free, Homemade Frappuccino!!!

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Brew coffee twice as strong and chill. Then pour 1 cup of it, 1 cup of milk, and a bunch of ice to a blender. Homemade frapps!!! You can also put in flavored syrups, which tend to be high in sugar but relatively low in calories. Or a bit of chocolate sauce, or maybe fruit. I used skim milk, so the WHOLE blenderful was about 100 calories. It came out a lot foamier and less creamy than Starbucks, but it was still good!! And NOT $4!!! I will be experimenting with this.

Enjoy!

I will be trying this!!!

I stumbled across this: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/06/perfect-iced-coffee/ on pioneer womans website, and i tried it out and it was excellent for a nice strong brew off coffee for any iced coffee drink. Be warned, her ideas for making it sweeter and taste better are not figure friendly, but everyone on here is incredibly smart and great at substituting ingredients for a healther recipe and I am sure you can adapt it to suit your needs.

Two things I did a little differently and still worked SUPER well:
1) I used 2 litre of water to 1/2 pound of coffee, and left it for an extra 4 hours, I dont know how strong hers was, but mine was definately strong, and it fill a whole 2L juice pitcher
2) I didnt have cheese cloth and used paper towel inside a fine mesh strainer and it came out without any coffee grinds in it

this sounds fantastic! definitely trying this!

try adding a scoop of chocolate protein powder.. can we say mocha frap? with protein no less

what a great idea! definitely going to try this over the weekend.

this didn't work for me it came out watery and runny

i'm lucky enough to have a expresso maker. My FIL gave up coffee. i make two shots of expresso, mix one tablespoon of hersheys with half cup of 2% milk with 4 ice cubes and it is like heaven. it's a great afternoon pick me up

So I tried this again, and i added 1/4 a banana + some coffee creamer in hopes of it not separating. Annd it did not come out as a frappe. it came out BETTER. I know, coffee and bananas, some of you migh be going :noway: . but i swear to god this is AMAZING. I was obviously born in the wrong colombia :laugh:

I stumbled across this: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/06/perfect-iced-coffee/ on pioneer womans website, and i tried it out and it was excellent for a nice strong brew off coffee for any iced coffee drink. Be warned, her ideas for making it sweeter and taste better are not figure friendly, but everyone on here is incredibly smart and great at substituting ingredients for a healther recipe and I am sure you can adapt it to suit your needs.

Two things I did a little differently and still worked SUPER well:
1) I used 2 litre of water to 1/2 pound of coffee, and left it for an extra 4 hours, I dont know how strong hers was, but mine was definately strong, and it fill a whole 2L juice pitcher
2) I didnt have cheese cloth and used paper towel inside a fine mesh strainer and it came out without any coffee grinds in it

I LOVE Ree Drummond..aka pioneer woman...but havent really visited her site since I started MFP...her stuff isnt what you'd call low cal..but it is yummy..The iced coffee recipe is great and if you love salsa..her restaurant style salsa is AWESOME and VERY low cal..This is the link..You guys will love it.

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/01/restaurant-style-salsa/

love this!

Thanks

I make every morning!

1 C of Unsweetened Vanila almond milk
2 Tbls Instant coffee
1 - 2 Tbls SF carmel sauce (Smuckers)
1 t Vanilia
Handful of fresh spinach
1 leaf of kale
2 scoops of protein powder ( I use Visalis)
1 t of cocoa (Optional)
1 1/2 C of crushed ice

Only 173 calories & it's packed with lots of vitamins to get your motor running!!!
I swear you don't taste the greens at all!