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 tried this with some skinny syrup added. Works a treat. Didn’t realise it was so easy to make iced coffee. No more cravings. Whenever I want one now I can just head to the kitchen. I used cold milk though as that’s my preference. Thank you!
What instant coffee to you recommend for an avid coffee drinker?
I buy kroger’s simple truth organic. Cafe Altura is also really good. I use folgers in a pinch, it’s really whatever your favorite preferred flavor is!
I loved this so much. I made a half gallon! I used 1 cup instant coffee dissolved in warm water, 2 cups caramel macchiato creamer, 1/4 cup chocolate syrup, shook well to mix, filled with cold water! YUM!
That’s awesome! So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Oh my gaaaaaash! 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. So far I replace most of the water with milk and add flavored cream for a touch of sweetness. I’ll be experimenting going forward. Thank you for sharing!
I’m so glad you loved the recipe Kathy!
I use this every morning. Add a little heavy whipping cream and a dozen Lilly’s sugar free chocolate chips with ice in the blender and you have your EZ java chip frapp.
Yum!
Delicious! I recently saw your recipe. Just made iced coffee with Folgers Instant and Silk Vanilla Almond creamer. Thanks a lot for sharing this article.
Delicious! I recently saw your recipe. Just made iced coffee with Folgers Instant and Silk Vanilla Almond creamer. Thank you so much. Fast, inexpensive, and delicious!!
Awesome! So glad you loved it!
I’ve been doing this for while too. Just found your site. I like Maxwell House Instant coffee, but I also use any brewed coffee left over. I have just started using Nespresso coffee…yummm. I also use a range of whiteners. Silk Cashew Milk is also great for those of us trying to cut down on Carbs. For extracts, I have found Coffee and Chocolate as well as Vanilla. The combinations to try are endless! Here’s to a yummy summer!
Yum! Great idea to add extracts 🙂
I Love this coffee!!!!!!!!!! I make cold brew coffee all the time and love it as well but it takes 12 to 24 hours to make, This takes so little time to have iced coffee. I added some vanilla extract and French Vanilla creamer, AWESOME!!!!
Now I have to go out and buy more instant coffee. I am so glad I found your recipe. Thank you so much.
Yay! So glad you enjoyed the recipe! It’s life changing, isn’t it? 🙂
I always thought you needed hot water for iced coffee! Sipping on my tasty iced coffee right now and thanks to your awesome hack my hot August is gonna be so much cooler