Do you love iced coffee? With the summer heat finally here, we can enjoy some of our favorite cold treats. For many friends and family, this is enjoying smoothies, shakes, and sometimes cold beers. While they enjoy their traditional summer drinks, I go for one of my all-time favorites – iced coffee.
Many years ago, while traveling, I fell in love with iced coffee. Having an unexpected business trip, my husband and I were on our way to New Jersey, where we stopped on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for much-needed caffeine. For those who have never traveled this toll-way, there are various ‘rest areas’ containing fast food, bathrooms, and my favorite – Starbucks. These 24-hour Starbucks are an absolute lifesaver when traveling at 1 am. Ice coffee was introduced here since it was a current ‘special’ of the day. I fell in love with it almost instantly.
While my husband is firmly a hot coffee drinker, I now look forward to iced coffee in the summer months. To make things even better, many restaurants are now experimenting with various iced coffee recipes. I have found that some of the mom-and-pop coffee shops have some of the best varieties, not being scared to play with various syrups and fruits in their unique coffees.
For me, the biggest issue with drinking iced coffee (or any coffee outside my home) is the price. I don’t know how anyone can afford coffee out, especially Starbucks. While it is a very nice treat, it isn’t sustainable for those who try living within a budget. I would honestly rather spend the money on high-quality coffee from a local coffee roaster than pay $8+ for a large specialty coffee.
To me, the best part of making coffee at home isn’t just the price but having it anytime, anywhere. It means that if I’m playing Diablo 4 at 1 am with my husband, I can make a quick coffee with our Mr. Coffee espresso maker. It also means I can add my own creamers and even experiment with different types of milk (I love Almond and oat milk sometimes in my iced coffee). Really, when you make specialty coffee at home, your choices are endless, and with control of your ingredients, you can also make it healthier!
Of course, you don’t have to always figure it out yourself at home. Many fantastic sites have experimented with various recipes and combinations for us, creating amazing iced coffee recipes. To me, the coolest part is some sites have created copycat recipes of various recipes from various coffee shops (including Starbucks). Knowing the exact measurements takes the guesswork out of making coffee, especially if you try to make fancier iced coffees.
Knowing that you love to experiment with various recipes like us, I am excited to share 10 of the best iced coffee recipes with you. These recipes are tested and work with just about any coffee maker. Some even have the conversions for doing it with your Keurig, making life even easier! Who knew it was so easy to make yummy iced coffee at home and save money!?
10 Best Iced Coffee Recipes
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About Susan Bewley
Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.
Delicious!! I have a feeling I’m going to be making these in the future 🙂
I’m not much of a coffee drinker, but I would try the Coconut Iced Coffee, I would add some chocolate to it to make it a chocolate coconut iced coffee, yum. Thank you for sharing this recipe post.
Oooohhh….so many delicious iced coffees to try. Will definitely be trying many of these, starting with the cheesecake and cinnamon dolce!
It looks very good..
I love the Copycat Starbucks Iced Cinnamon Dolce Latte | Simplee Thrifty!
thank you for sharing. my mom is going to love these as well as my friends. sadly, i do not drink coffee 🙁
I never drank coffee because I don’t like hot drinks, but I always loved coffee flavored ice cream, candy, etc. So iced coffees might be good!
I don’t drink coffee, but I love chocolate or a cappuccino or a latte.I used to drink coffee without milk, much better for my stomach. I should try drinking iced coffee before I die lol Thanks for the post!!!
Wow! There are some amazing iced-coffee recipes here.I will try the Cinnamon Maple Iced Latte first but will eventually try them all because I love them! Thanks for all the great recipes.
I love my coffee but during the summer months I don’t want hot coffee. This is perfect for me. Love the variety of the recipes. Thanks!
OK, that’s what I’m talking about! I especially love the Cinnamon Maple Iced Latte, made with REAL maple syrup! Pinned & planned, it’s gonna be a CAFFEINE day! LOL!
I love iced coffee and would use some of these recipes thanks for the post!!
What a variety, I had no clue how to make this many variations! Thank you for the ideas.
Thanks for the recipes. We will give these a try.
Thanks so very much for all of these delicious iced coffee recipes! Just like me, all of these people love their coffee! I love to drink coffee! Generally, I’ll drink it hot during the winter when it’s 17 degrees out like it is right now! However, during the summer I sure do love my iced coffee! I’ve always made my iced coffee here at home because I can’t afford to run out and purchase fancy coffee every day! These 10 recipes are absolutely fantastic! Thanks again for posting these for all of us! I truly do appreciate it! Michele 🙂
Iced coffee is my FAVORITE! I was just looking for iced coffee recipes this past weekend! Good to know I can find them in one place right here!
I love iced coffee but more so in the summer. I wonder if I can make my bulletproof coffee iced. Thanks for sharing.
Iced coffee is something I’ve never tried. Yeah, I know 🙂
I don’t like iced tea very much and have always thought that wouldn’t like iced coffee either. But who knows..They look pretty delicious 🙂
This looks amazing!
Iced coffee is really my favorite thing to drink . I really love these recipies .I would also like to try the caramel latte thanks so much for this post
I have got to try the caramel coffee recipe. These recipes all sound good.