Healthy Iced Coffee with almond milk, sugar free, low calorie, and much cheaper and healthier than Starbucks.
Make a tall glass of iced coffee on a hot summer day and save $4. Repeat for a month and buy yourself a pair of Lululemon pants. Genius! 🙂
Healthy Coffee
Healthy iced coffee made with cold (leftover) coffee, almond milk and without any added sugar.
On a hot summer day, cold glass of healthy coffee will satisfy your late afternoon craving.
It is much cheaper and healthier than Starbucks iced coffee. Not to mention, easy to make any time of the day or year.
Ingredients for Iced Coffee
- Coffee: Quality of coffee beans matters. To achieve most flavorful coffee, buy coffee beans and grind yourself at home. Also organic is a healthy choice as coffee is heavily sprayed with pesticides. Good news is it is not much more expensive.
- Milk: Use any milk like almond milk, cow’s, coconut, rice, soy or hemp milk. My latest obsession is Califia Farms, so tasty!
- Ice: Ice is a must for this recipe. Don’t skip. 🙂
How to Make Iced Coffee
- Save coffee: If you brew coffee at home, do not discard any leftovers. Refrigerate for up to 2 days and make iced coffee recipe. For less watered down coffee with ice, freeze some coffee in an ice cube tray.
- OR Brew and cool down coffee on the counter: Do not pour hot coffee over ice as it will melt it immediately.
- Combine and stir poured cold coffee, milk and vanilla extract over ice.
- Enjoy immediately!
Variations for Healthy Iced Coffee
- Flavors and spices: Add cinnamon, nutmeg or more (or skip) vanilla extract.
- Liquid sweetener: Add maple syrup or agave to taste if you are craving a tad of sweetness. It has less prominent taste and dissolves better than honey.
- Dry sweetener: If you would like to use a bit of sugar or any keto sweetener like monk fruit etc., make sure to stir it with hot coffee to help dissolve. It will not dissolve in cold liquid.
- Cocoa or cacao powder: Whisk in with a fork or small whisk 1-2 tsp with hot or cold coffee for that mocha flavor.
- Ratios: Change the ratio of coffee to milk. 50:50, 30:70 or whatever you want.
More Healthy Cold Drinks
Next hot summer day try:
Enjoy this healthy coffee!
PrintHealthy Iced Coffee {Better than Starbucks}
Healthy Iced Coffee with almond milk, sugar free, low calorie, and much cheaper and healthier than Starbucks.
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 2 minutes
- Yield: 1 glass 1x
- Category: Drink
- Method: No Cooking
- Cuisine: North American
Ingredients
- 1/2 – 1 cup ice
- 1/2 cup coffee, cold
- 1/2 cup any milk (I used unsweetened almond)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a tall glass, add ice, coffee, milk and vanilla extract.
- Stir with a long spoon, adjust to taste and enjoy immediately.
Store: Do not throw away “old” coffee. Refrigerate for up to 2 days and when ready combine all ingredients and make a healthy iced coffee.
Notes
- Do not pour hot coffee over ice as it will melt it immediately.
- Freeze coffee in ice cube tray and use for more concentrated iced coffee.
- My favorite plant-based milk for coffee is Califia Farms unsweetened almond milk.
Iced coffee variations:
- Flavors and spices: Add cinnamon, nutmeg or more (or skip) vanilla extract.
- Liquid sweetener: Add maple syrup or agave to taste if you are craving a tad of sweetness. It has less prominent taste and dissolves better than honey.
- Dry sweetener: If you would like to use a bit of sugar or any keto sweetener like monk fruit etc., make sure to stir it with hot coffee to help dissolve. It will not dissolve in cold liquid.
- Cocoa or cacao powder: Whisk in with a fork or small whisk 1-2 tsp with hot or cold coffee for that mocha flavor.
- Ratios: Change the ratio of coffee to milk. 50:50, 30:70 or whatever you want.
Did you make this recipe? Please give it a star rating in the comments.
Does this recipe work using cold brew or instant coffee?
Sure.
Hi, does it have to be refrigerated for 2 days or can I just use the coffee when it turns cold?
Sure!
I just made this but added a bit of cinnamon and stevia…so good!
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Fantastic!
What ground coffee suits best with Unsweetened Almond Milk?
Colombian or Ethiopian?
Loving the blog keep it up!!
I haven’t really tested it that specifically. Use the coffee you like to drink!
Excellent!!
★★★★★
Is instant coffee good to use?
Yes if you like its taste.
Which organic coffee do you recommend? Thank you
I personally buy and love Ethical Bean Lush medium roast.
Amazing recipe! Added a bit more soya milk and some stevia but other than that this is my favourite iced coffee recipe. Thank you so much!!
★★★★★
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, Meera! Thank you for the wonderful review!
Hi Olena – so happy to have found you! One tip for those that feel the ice waters the coffee down – with your extra coffee make some ice cubes to keep on hand for your ice coffees. I always fill the cube with about 2/3 coffee and 1/3 creamer or half n half or milk. Also – I love the Sweet Drops Stevia – comes in variety of flavors.
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Great tip, Carol! And so happy you found me.
A rteally good recipe. I add a little Splenda to mine, but otherwise, perfect.
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Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed the recipe, Bonnie.
what is the GI
What is GI?
GI is glycemic index, it is used a lot by diabetics.
This recipe seems so simple to be so amazing, but it is literally amazing! So easy to make at home and so delicious!
Would definitely recommend trying it! I’m going to make it everyday now haha
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Yay! That’s great to hear Meredith!
Very helpful.
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Awesome iced coffee recipe!
For milk I like hazelnut silk almond milk and skip the extract.
Sounds amazing!!!
Amazing
Delicious ?
★★★★★
Tasty and easy to make.
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Love it! Make it everyday and so easy to do! Thanks! I’m so glad I found you!
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You are very welcome. I’m glad you found me too haha. Enjoy!
I have been searching the internet for good healthy iced coffee recipes. Yours is the first that I actually like. It was amazing and I look forward to making it every morning.
Awesome. You must live some place warm.:)
Thank you, will surely try these since most coffee drinks are quite high in sugar/calories. : )
Yes. It is super easy to make your own at home.
Made this for my daugther and she loves it . Was very sad no Star Bucks since Paleo she said this works yeah.
Awesome! Don’t be sad, guys. Starbucks is full of [email protected] and GMO ingredients. I buy only Americano with organic soy milk as a treat when I’m out.
If I don’t drink coffee what brand coffee would be good for iced coffee?
I like medium to medium dark roast coffee, preferably organic. My favourites are Ethical Bean, Kicking Horse, Seattle’s Best or when I’m out Starbucks Blonde or Pike Place Roast.
I looooove iced coffee! It’s actually the only way I’ll drink it. I came up with my own iced mocha recipe (which is posted on my blog) but I always feel guilty if I have it too often because I know it isn’t very healthy. I never even thought to use almond milk before. I think I’ll try your recipe next time and use a little chocolate syrup as the sweetener. Then it’ll be a bit healthier! I can’t wait to try it! 🙂
Now Silk makes dark chocolate almond milk… no need to add sweetener
Silk dark chocolate almond milk contains sweetener. SO doesn’t matter when you add it – with milk or with coffee.
I just started doing this. I use Caramel Macciato flavored coffee from Starbucks and Vanilla Almond Milk. It is so good on those sticky humid Southern mornings.
Glad you like it, Suzanne! It’s so simple, cheap and tasty. You can vary this iced coffee as much as you like. Next time I will try it with whipped coconut cream on top. Stay cool.:)
Your coffee shots look like they could be hanging inside of a Starbucks:)
I love iced coffee! All year around.:) I usually use TJ’s almond milk too, but I never thought to add vanilla extract. Will try it tomorrow. 🙂
Thank you!:) Enjoy!