This evening Karianne and I experimented with making our own version of a frappuccino! The Starbucks bottles in this picture are filled with “Kurfee” (yes, that’s Kurth + coffee. The marketing campaign practically writes itself! “Gimme anuther gal-dang Kurfee, Lorna Gene! I gotta stay up tonight and catch them possums!”).
First, here’s how we did it:
1. Sterilize some bottles. We boiled 5 Starbucks bottles (and their caps) for about 10 minutes.
2. Brew 12 oz. of vanilla flavored coffee.
3. In a pot, mix coffee with 6 cups of whole milk, 1 cup of sugar, and a little less than 1 tsp of powdered cocoa mix (might work fine with Hershey syrup, but we used Nestle’s Carlos V mix).
4. Stir it up and ladle it into the bottles. Done in less than 20 minutes!
This completely filled 5 bottles and would have mostly filled a 6th if we’d had that many. It tastes really good! Not exactly like a frap, but it’s our first batch, and it’s got its own personality.
Now, the cost: A regular 4-pack of fraps at the grocery store costs $5, or $1.25/bottle. A single bottle at a gas station is around $1.79.
Our total cost for all 5 bottles was $1.85. That’s $0.37/bottle. Unbelievable. It tastes even better when you know that!
As I was mixing it, I was amazed at how much milk there was. When you buy a frappuccino, you’re basically buying a bottle of milk with tiny amounts of other flavorings in it.
The next time we try this, we’ll cut back on the sugar a little (maybe 3/4 cup) and make the coffee a little stronger. Now that we know how easy, fun, and cheap it is, I’m sure we’ll make more batches of Kurfee in the future, dadgummit.
the great thing about stevia is that it is also tooth friendly like xylitol sweeteners:”~
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