Easy Instant Iced Coffee
on Jul 27, 2023, Updated Apr 20, 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 ½ tablespoons of instant coffee and ⅔ 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 ½ tablespoons instant coffee grounds
- â…” 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
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I was very skeptical but this is great! Quick to make and tasty! I used 1/3 cup fat free 1/2 & 1/2 and 1 tablespoon of sugar free vanilla syrup instead of flavored milk or creamer. I also want to try it blended.
I make this every day! But I use a bottle of water.. take a sip out. Use a funnel & put your tbsp of coffee.. add creamer & shake up! I make 2-3 bottles at a time. So good!
Genius! Used Nescafe clasico and silk caramel almond milk. Thank you so much for posting this recipe!!
I don’t know why I never thought to use Instant coffee to get iced coffee that’s not too watered down, but this is perfect. I have been able to make so much iced coffee this way, saving money and all those plastic cups!!
THIS RECIPE IS AMAZING!!! Definitely changed my family’s morning routine! I made one for my brother and he instantly texted his girlfriend to tell her the recipe! We love the blended coffee too!!
Love hearing this! So glad you enjoyed the recipe and thanks for leaving a comment 🙂
I now always make iced coffee this way! It’s delicious, takes only the blink of an eye and beats the bejezus out of any other recipe! I make it in a glass large enough that I start with 2T of instant coffee, and I use half-and-half for my creamer. Thank you for this!
Pam
You’re a genius! This is so much better than buying them you can control how strong it is, me personally I like it strong you can control what it’s made with how creamy it is how Sweet it is. It’s the absolute best! I have been using for several months a internet advertised coffee concentrate liquid but a jar of instant coffee is a lot cheaper and works even better! Thanks bunches!
So happy you enjoyed the recipe, thanks for sharing!
I just made this. I used a Cinnamon Toast Crunch creamer my brother got me and some of the Nespresso Instant Coffee. It was so easy and quick to make. This just saved my wallet. Thank you!
I stumbled across this by accident three weeks ago and haven’t been buying iced coffee out since. Thanks so much.
So glad you have enjoyed the recipe!