{"id":15,"date":"2010-10-30T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-10-30T20:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T20:16:27","slug":"just-whipped-this-up-home-made-blended-iced-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/15\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Whipped This Up: Home Made Blended Iced Coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just whipped this up this afternoon. I was doing some work around the house and needed a quick pick-me-up. I noticed some coffee left over from earlier this morning and took stock of our milk and sugar supply. Yup, everything I needed was ready to go!<\/p>\n<p>Into my blender I dumped about 16 ounces of room temperature coffee (<strong>DO <span class=\"caps\">NOT<\/span> use hot coffee<\/strong> unless you\u2019d enjoy a trip to your local hospital\u2019s burn unit!) and the same amount of 1% low fat milk. Then I dropped in about 2\/3 cup sugar. I sealed the lid up tight and blended on low for about 45 seconds to a minute. The milk instantly frothed up and the blender almost overflowed! When I do this again, I\u2019ll have to remember to use less coffee and milk or risk making a mess.<\/p>\n<p>Once blended, I poured this into a pitcher which I placed in the fridge. I then crushed some ice into a cup and poured myself a rich, creamy iced blended coffee drink which rivals the concoction they sell <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/32qnbnd\">at various shops around town<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Ken\u2019s Iced Blended Coffee Drink<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>12-16 ounces cold or room temperature coffee<\/li>\n<li>12-16 ounces cold 1% our skim milk (same amount as coffee)<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 cups sugar (more or less to taste)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Place ingredients in a large (at least 45 to 50 ounce) blender. Blend on low for about a minute until all the sugar is dissolved and the drink takes on a frothy consistency. Pour into a pitcher and refrigerate. Serve over crushed ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just whipped this up this afternoon. I was doing some work around the house and needed a quick pick-me-up. I noticed some coffee left over from earlier this morning and took stock of our milk and sugar supply. Yup, everything I needed was ready to go! Into my blender I dumped about 16 ounces of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,69,84,98,161],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-2","tag-coffee","tag-drink","tag-food","tag-iced-coffee","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kristau.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}