Coffee Milkshake (With Ice Cream)
Coffee Milkshake is a thick and creamy drink made with vanilla ice cream, sugar, chilled milk and instant coffee. This easy coffee milkshake recipe comes together in about 15 minutes and makes a refreshing dessert drink for warm days.
About Coffee Milkshake
During the hot Indian summers, I often make cooling drinks such as Falooda, Watermelon Juice, Mango Shake, Lassi, and Banana Shakes. When I want something chilled with a coffee flavor, this Coffee Milkshake is an easy option.
Unlike my Cold Coffee recipe, which is made mainly with milk, this milkshake uses Vanilla Ice Cream as one of the main ingredients. The ice cream gives it a thicker, creamier and more dessert-like consistency.
You do not need a coffee maker to prepare this recipe. Simply dissolve instant coffee in a little warm water, let it cool slightly, and blend it with chilled milk, sugar and vanilla ice cream.
You can serve the coffee milkshake as it is or top it with additional scoops of ice cream. The extra scoops are optional but makes the Coffee Milkshake richer and creamier.
If you enjoy coffee-based Drinks and desserts, do try my Dalgona Coffee, Hot Coffee and Affogato recipes.
Ingredients & Substitutions
- Instant Coffee: Instant coffee is convenient and dissolves easily in warm water. I also use it to enhance the flavor of Chocolate Cake and desserts. You can use instant coffee powder or fine granules. You can also use a small amount of strong Filter Coffee decoction. Make sure the decoction is completely cooled before blending it with the ice cream.
- Water: Use only the amount of warm water listed in the recipe to dissolve the instant coffee and sugar. Adding more water will thin the Coffee Milkshake.
- Sugar: Add sugar according to your taste and depending on the sweetness of the ice cream. I use regular white sugar, but raw sugar, brown sugar, powdered jaggery, cane sugar or coconut sugar can also be used.
- Milk: Use cold or chilled whole milk for a smooth and creamy consistency. Do not add too much milk, as it can make the milkshake thin.
- Vanilla Ice Cream: Vanilla ice cream forms the creamy base of this coffee milkshake. You can also use Chocolate Ice Cream for a mocha flavor or coffee ice cream for a stronger coffee taste.
- Ice Cubes: I also add a few ice cubes along with the ice cream to make the Coffee Milkshake colder and slightly frothier. You can skip them if you prefer.
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How To Make Coffee Milkshake (Stepwise)
1. In a small bowl, add 1½ tablespoons of instant coffee.
2. Add ¼ cup warm or slightly hot water. Mix very well with a spoon.
3. Now pour this mixture in a blender jar.
4. Add 4 tablespoons of sugar, or per your taste.
Tip: If you prefer to cut back on dishes, add the coffee, warm water and sugar directly to the blender jar.
5. Blend for a minute or till the coffee solution becomes frothy and the color lightens a bit.
6. Now add 4 to 5 small ice cubes.
7. Add 3 or 4 vanilla ice cream scoops.
8. Pour in 2½ cups chilled milk.
9. Blend once more till everything is mixed well and you get a nice froth on top.
10. Pour in glasses.
11. Keep some space on top for the ice cream scoops.
12. Now top each glass with 1 or 2 Ice Cream scoops.
13. Your coffee shake with ice cream is ready to be served.
14. Serve immediately and enjoy.
Optional Variations
- Make it dairy-free: Use plant-based milk and dairy-free vanilla ice cream. Oat milk, almond milk or cashew milk work well.
- Make it decaf: Use decaffeinated instant coffee, cooled decaf brewed coffee or decaf espresso.
- Add more flavor: Blend in a little chocolate, caramel, almond or hazelnut syrup. Start with a small amount, taste and add more if needed.
- Add protein: Blend in a scoop of your preferred protein powder. You may need to add a little more milk if the coffee milkshake becomes too thick.
Helpful Tips
- Coffee: You can use your preferred instant coffee or a small amount of strong Filter Coffee decoction. Let the decoction cool completely before blending.
- Consistency: Use vanilla ice cream as one of the main ingredients and add the amount of milk listed in the recipe. You can use slightly less milk if you prefer a thicker consistency. This helps keep the Coffee Milkshake thick and creamy.
- Sweetener: You can use white sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar, coconut sugar or jaggery powder. Adjust the quantity according to your taste and the sweetness of the ice cream.
- Garnish: Garnish with chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, chocolate chips, chocolate shavings or an extra scoop of ice cream.
- Scaling: You can easily halve, double or triple this Coffee Milkshake recipe to make fewer or more servings.
Step by Step Photo Guide Above
Coffee Milkshake (With Ice Cream)
Ingredients
- 1½ tablespoons instant coffee
- ¼ cup water – warm or lightly hot
- 4 tablespoons sugar or as required
- 2½ cups whole milk
- 3 to 4 scoops Vanilla Ice Cream – for the milkshake
- 2 to 4 scoops Vanilla Ice Cream – for topping the coffee shake or as required
- 4 to 5 small ice cubes – optional
Instructions
Making Coffee Solution
- In a small bowl, take the instant coffee.
- Add warm or slightly hot water.
- Mix very well with a spoon.
Making Coffee Milkshake
- Now pour this mixture in a blender jar.
- Add sugar. You can add sugar as per your taste.
- Blend for a minute or till the coffee solution becomes frothy and the color lightens a bit.
- Now add the ice cubes. Adding ice cubes are optional and you can choose to skip them.
- Add 3 to 4 vanilla ice cream scoops.
- Pour the chilled milk.
- Blend once more till everything is mixed well and you get a nice froth on top.
- Pour coffee milkshake in glasses.
- Keep some space on top for the ice cream scoops.
- Now place 1 or 2 ice cream scoops in each glass.
- Serve coffee milkshake with ice cream immediately.
Dassana’s Notes
- The recipe can also be halved or scaled up to increase the servings.
- You can substitute coffee with drinking chocolate or cocoa powder and make a mocha milkshake with ice cream.
- Almond milk or soy milk can be used instead of dairy milk.
- Instead of vanilla ice cream, you can even add chocolate ice cream or coffee ice cream.
- Adjust the sugar as needed by adding less or more depending on your taste preferences.
Nutrition
Coffee Milkshake recipe from the archives was first published on April 2016.
hi dassana madam… I tried the coffee milkshake recipe at home.. it was lovely… my family members were amazed thanks to your lovely recipe.. They said it was like Cafe Coffee Day style…thanks madam
pleased to know this, thanks for positive views. glad your family liked the coffee shake recipe 🙂 you are welcome.
This is my favourite..m loving it
thanks tasmin 🙂
thank you
I am loving it..i love coffee
Very very help full thanks
yummy
Hi mam, how are you ?I have two questions,,, first will ice cream made using heavy cream give more better results instead of using amul cream ?or both will give same results? My second question is can I use single acting baking powder in the same quantity instead of double acting as
the second one is giving bitter results ?
i am fine shuchi. with heavy cream the ice cream will have a more creamier and smooth texture than with amul cream. whipping or beating heavy cream is easier and takes less time. i have not used single acting or double acting baking powder. what i buy is just baking powder. i assume the regular baking powder is single acting. so you can use it any baking recipe posted on the website.
Hi i am not getting any reply from your side… Please reply…. Its a request
geetika have replied you aready thanks.
Where are my recipes getting saved? I used to save them and it used to open some other website. Now even that is not happening.
thanks sudha for letting us know. we will look into it. the recipes were getting saved on bigoven.com. you can check them here.
Hi I already do it this way and it tastes fabulous. you can also add fresh cream or home made thick malai for a creamier texture. I add both, a bit of ice cream and fresh cream. vanilla ice cream is best for blending though for topping chocolate gives a nice mocha effect.
Looking forward to more summer recipes.
thanks a lot richa for these tips and suggestions. i do add cream at times, but since i was adding vanilla ice cream, i skipped adding cream. agree with the chocolate part. hopefully i do hope to add some more summer recipes. right now i am just adding recipes which are in drafts from a long time.