10 Easy Iced Coffee Recipes to Help You Chill

Not to be too dramatic, but nothing tastes better on a warm morning than a cool iced coffee. And as something of an iced coffee aficionado, it's safe to say that these are the supreme iced coffee recipes to make at home. Sorry, Dunks. There's a new iced coffee recipe in town.

Whether it's fashion or food and drink, the classics are classics for a reason. And nothing is more classic than a traditional iced coffee. It's nothing fancy - just pure, chilly goodness.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• 1 ounce cream or half & half
• Sugar, to taste

Instructions

1. Fill a highball or rocks glass with ice.
2. Add enough coffee to fill the glass ¾ full.
3. Add cream and sugar.
4. Stir to mix.

No dairy? No problem. You can still indulge in the soul-quenching beverage known as iced coffee.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• 1-1½ ounces soy, almond, or coconut milk

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass or pint glass with ice.
2. Fill the glass ¾ full with coffee.
3. Add your nondairy milk of choice.
4. Stir to mix.

Sweet, perfect, gentle caramel. A caramel iced coffee is proof that two flavors can work together without one dominating the other. Opt for a thinner caramel syrup, or else you're going to want to shake warm coffee with the caramel syrup in a cocktail shaker to mix it well before pouring it over the ice.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• ½ ounce caramel syrup, to taste
• 1 ounce creamer

Instructions

1. Fill a rocks or highball glass with ice.
2. Fill the glass ¾ full of coffee.
3. Add caramel syrup and creamer.
4. Stir to mix.

There are two perfect ways to make a mocha iced coffee. One involves chocolate syrup and the other chocolate milk. And if you love, love, love chocolate - why not use both?

Ingredients

• Ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• ½ ounce chocolate syrup and 2 ounces creamer OR 2 ounces chocolate milk

Instructions

1. In a cocktail shaker, add ice, coffee, chocolate syrup, and creamer.
2. Shake well to mix.
3. Pour into rocks glass.

So it might be latte in name only, but if you know cold brew, you know that it kicks somewhere between coffee and espresso. So it's pretty darn close to a latte.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 6-8 ounces cold brew coffee
• 2 ounces milk

Instructions

1. Fill a rocks glass with ice.
2. Add cold brew and milk.
3. Stir to mix.

Vanilla is misunderstood, but don't worry, we understood you and why you love vanilla iced coffee. We see you. No vanilla syrup? Use vanilla creamer. Or use both vanilla syrup and vanilla creamer.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• ¾ ounce vanilla syrup
• 1 ounce creamer, to taste

Instructions

1. Fill a highball glass with ice.
2. Fill to ¾ full with coffee.
3. Add vanilla syrup and creamer.
4. Stir to mix.

Technically, it's a form of iced coffee but, also, technically, this is espresso. Iced coffee doesn't play by the rules.

Ingredients

• Ice
• 2 ounces espresso
• 1 ounce cold water

Instructions

1. Fill a small glass with ice.
2. Add espresso and cold water.
3. Stir briefly to mix.

Quick and easy, you can have your iced coffee doubly cold. Pro tip: add a peeled, frozen banana to the blender to take this to the next level.

Ingredients

• 1½ cups ice
• 1 frozen banana, peeled and roughly sliced (optional)
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• 2 ounces creamer
• Sugar, to taste

Instructions

1. In a blender, add all the ingredients.
2. Blend until smooth or desired consistency.
3. Pour into a glass.
4. Sip and feel your soul be at peace.

Sometimes called a Greek frappe, other times called by its full name frappé coffee, or even Nescafe frappé, instant coffee meets water meets milk meets ice meets your tastebuds.

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Indulge in an iced coffee that's sweet, rich, and oh-so-perfect.

Ingredients

• Crushed or pebble ice
• 8-10 ounces chilled coffee
• 2 ounces sweetened condensed milk
• 1 ounce evaporated milk OR heavy cream

Instructions

1. Fill a glass with ice.
2. Fill the glass ¾ full with coffee.
3. Add condensed milk and evaporated milk.
4. Stir well to mix.

How can you add flavor to your iced coffee? I'm glad you asked. Grab a notebook or screenshot this list.

• Flavored creamers
• Flavored coffee
• Flavored coffee syrups
• Cocktail bitters
• Flavored simple syrup
• Nonalcoholic spirits
• Chocolate, caramel, or fruit syrups
• Drop in a scoop of partially melted ice cream
• Use flavored ice cubes (freezing flavored syrups, coffee, or creamer)

If chicken noodle soup is food for the soul, then iced coffee is the drink for the soul. And the heart. I can't be the only one realizing they might have an iced coffee problem. And by problem, I mean intense love. After all, there is no limit to what an iced coffee can fix.