Homemade Vanilla Frappe Recipe
Cool off with your favorite Koffee Kult coffee in this easy homemade vanilla frappe — only 5 ingredients, and you'll never pay $4 for one again.
The biggest bonus to making this vanilla frappe at home is getting to use good-quality coffee as the base. Koffee Kult Medium Roast, brewed slightly stronger than usual, is perfect for this. It's bold but smooth, never bitter — which means you're complementing the coffee flavor rather than masking it.
This frappe is vegan, gluten-free, and low sugar. Coffee is blended with unsweetened coconut milk and coconut cream until frothy, then finished with good vanilla extract and sweetened to taste with stevia or coconut sugar. Once you see how easy it is to make, you'll find yourself craving it far more often than you expect.
"Use good coffee as your base and you'll complement the flavor — not cover it up."
This recipe requires a little advance prep: the brewed coffee needs to be poured into an ice cube tray and frozen solid. This keeps the frappe thick and icy without watering it down the way regular ice would.
☕ Prep Tip
You can buy coconut cream in a can (Trader Joe's carries it), or just refrigerate a can of full-fat coconut milk overnight — the cream solidifies at the top. Use the remaining coconut milk as a healthy coffee creamer throughout the week.
Homemade Vanilla Frappe
Makes 2 servings · Prep: 5 min + freeze time
Ingredients
- 12 coffee ice cubes
- 1 – 1¼ cup unsweetened coconut milk (carton) or milk of choice
- 1 tbsp coconut cream or whipping cream
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1–2 packets stevia or 1–2 tbsp coconut sugar, to taste
Directions
- 1 Brew coffee and pour into an ice cube tray. Freeze until completely solid.
- 2 Add frozen coffee cubes to a blender. Pour in the milk and coconut cream (or whipping cream).
- 3 Add vanilla extract and blend until no ice chunks remain and the mixture is frothy.
- 4 Add sweetener one packet at a time, blending and tasting between additions. Adjust to your preference.
- 5 Serve in 2 glasses with a straw and enjoy!
