Easy Instant Iced Coffee
Updated May 17, 2024
This instant iced coffee recipe is a game changer! If you love to drink iced coffee, this will change your life! Learn how to make iced coffee in less than a minute!
This is the best easy iced coffee recipe!
- no hot water required: that’s right, you don’t need hot water to make instant coffee dissolve. This easy iced coffee recipe uses cold water
- affordable: much cheaper than a trip to Starbucks or a bottle of cold brew, this recipe uses instant coffee granules.
- easy to customize: the flavor possibilities are endless!
Iced coffee ingredients
- instant coffee: any brand
- cold water: this will dissolve the instant coffee without the use of hot water
- creamer
- ice
Make instant coffee without hot water
You know how you’ve always been told that instant coffee had to be made hot? Well that is not true, it also makes iced coffee! Just mix cold water with instant coffee grounds, add some creamer, and stir. It can take a minute or two for the coffee to dissolve, but it does.
How to make iced coffee from instant coffee
- Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of instant coffee and 2/3 cup cold water to a glass. Stir constantly for 1-2 minutes, until the instant coffee granules dissolve completely
- Add ice
- Stir in creamer to taste
I am sitting here enjoying my first homemade iced coffee, thank you!! It’s as good as anything from Starbucks and so easy!! I thought it would take hot water and lots of ice, but nope!! Yay!!!! This is a game changer, thanks so much!!! – Lana
Ways to customize iced coffee
- add more instant coffee: like your coffee stronger? Use more instant coffee to taste.
- use more or less water: Play around with the amount of water you use to find your perfect iced coffee.
- use coffee syrups with your creamer: vanilla syrup, salted caramel syrup, or hazelnut syrup would all be delicious.
Thank you for this life changer! I have tried to make good iced coffee for years and it has always been hit or miss. Cold brew, hot brew over ice, etc. Stumbled across your recipe…had doubts…tried it anyway. Absolutely delicious! No more prepping in advance. Instant perfection. – Kathy
I usually stir mine up, go do something else for a minute or so, then come back and stir a little more and it is ready.
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Instant Iced Coffee
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 tablespoons instant coffee grounds
- 2/3 cup cold water
- Coffee creamer, to taste
- Ice
Instructions
- Add the instant coffee grounds and cold water to a glass and stir well
- Stir constantly and allow the coffee to completely dissolved (this may take 1-2 minutes)
- Add ice and creamer to taste
I have been making iced coffee similar to this for years but I use just a small amount of heated water (not too hot but enough to disolve the instant coffee quickly) I will also make it in batches on occasion and use some of the coffee to make ice cubes. I can then refrigerate the rest. I have also used the same method using all milk instead of water for an extra creamy winter treat.
Looks good! I think I’m breaking the rule here… I add a few ml of warm water just to soak the coffee grounds hehehe anyway nice recipe!
I’ve been searching for an iced coffee recipe for ages. I’m so tired of going to Starbucks and Second Cup and paying a fortune or settling for the dreadful inconsistency of the cheaper McDonald’s and Tim Horton’s variety.
I dissolved a tablespoon of Taster Choice organic crystals in 1/4 c of coconut water, added the Vita Coco coconut milk and used an immersion blender to whip it up into a frappe. No sweeteners needed because coconut milk has its own sweetness. Added ice cubes to serve. It was good but may lessen the amount of coffee to 2 teaspoons next time. Thanks for the recipe!
Has anyone made a low cal coconut sweet iced coffee? When I use almond milk, its never light enough.
Use a shaker bottle for iced coffee on the go!
Great idea Ron!
Oh wow I am so excited to tr this. I am a huge coffee lover and I have been on a health change for a little less than two months. This is great! I am so excited. Yesss!!!
Thanks so much Joy! Kroger’s Friday free item last Friday was the Silk Almond creamer, isn’t that funny?!
Again super excited!
Let me know how you like it Caroline! And that’s so exciting about the creamer, hope you enjoy it!
Which coffee ground do you recommend? Thanks
I buy organic instant coffee at my local Kroger. Any instant coffee will do!
How much does a small package of instant coffee grounds like the ones that you were able to find cost on average?
Hi Daryn,
I believe the instant coffee pictured costs around $7. It lasts me a long time!
Can you make this in a pitcher and have it in the fridge for a few days?
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Sarah,
I don’t see why that wouldn’t work! Just give it a stir when you get it out of the fridge to make sure it’s all mixed together well!