It’s time to indulge yourself and make a cold foam topping for your next beverage. Learn how to make cold foam for coffee, tea and coffee shop drinks, with just two ingredients.
Ever need a little pick-me-up in the afternoon? This cold foam is just that!
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With just two ingredients, and about a minute, you can have a creamy topping for your hot coffee or iced coffee.
Whole milk and heavy cream are all it takes to make a decadent creamy topping.
And a mini frother does all the work for you.
This recipe is similar to a Starbucks copycat recipe but I took things up a notch and made the foam topping thicker and richer by adding heavy cream.
Starbucks just froths milk for its cold foam. And you can always do that too and even use your favorite non-dairy milk. The result will be a bit lighter and less creamy than my recipe.
You can always give your foam topping a flavor and make it a sweet cream foam by adding a simple syrup or extract to it.
Scroll down for some delicious flavor variation suggestions and let your imagination take over. The possibilities are endless and so delicious.
I love to combine the milk and heavy cream in a mason jar and keep it refrigerated so I can just pour some out and froth it without having to measure ingredients every time I want a cold foam topping. Just shake, pour into a glass measuring cup and froth into deliciousness!
Pour the cold foam over your drink and top it with a sprinkle of ground cinnamon! Yea baby!
This coffee shop topping made with such simple ingredients elevates both cold drinks and hot drinks to a new level of indulgence and deliciousness.
Once you learn how to make cold foam for coffee you will wonder why you haven’t done it sooner!
If you love a frothy topping then I'm sure that you will also enjoy my Starbucks pumpkin spice cold cream brewed coffee.
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How to make cold foam for coffee
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- Step 1: Combine milk with heavy cream in a mason jar or glass measuring cup.
- Step 2: Using a mini frother, froth the mixture until it is creamy and has thickened to a foam consistency.
- Step 3: Pour the cold foam topping over your favorite hot or cold beverage and enjoy!
Hint: For the best result, use cold ingredients.
Expert recipe tips
- Be sure to use chilled milk and chilled heavy cream for the best results
- Feel free to add about a tablespoon of simple syrup or a splash of an extract to make a flavored cold foam
- Sprinkle some ground cinnamon or ground nutmeg on top of your cold foam!
Substitutions
Don't have an ingredient on hand or looking to switch things up a bit? Check out these easy ingredient substitutions:
- You can substitute 2% milk for the whole milk although the texture of the cold foam will be less thick than using whole milk
- A nondairy milk, such as almond milk or oat milk, can also be used in place of the whole milk
- You can use an immersion blender instead of a mini frother
Variations
You can make your frothy topping according to the recipe below without adding a sweetener or a flavor or you can make your topping with one of these different flavors:
- Strawberry – add a splash of strawberry simple syrup
- Blueberry – add some blueberry simple syrup
- Brown Sugar – sweeten your cold foam with some brown sugar simple syrup
- Vanilla – add vanilla extract or vanilla syrup
- Maple - add some 100% pure maple syrup
- Caramel - adding a drizzle of caramel sauce will give you a delicious caramel cold foam
- Lemon - add citrus notes by adding lemon simple syrup
- Honey - add a touch of honey flavor with honey syrup
Equipment
Storage
- I combine the milk with the heavy cream in a mason jar with a lid or an airtight container and refrigerate it until I want to make some cold foam.
- Then I pour as much of the cream mixture as I need into either a measuring cup or another mason jar and, using a hand frother, I make as much foam topping as I want for my coffee.
- The mixture, before frothing, will stay fresh in the refrigerator for 4-5 days.
- See more guidelines at USDA.gov.
How to make a single serving of cold foam
If you just need one serving of cold cream you can use the following ingredient amounts:
- 3 Tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 Tablespoons whole milk
Ingredients
Ingredients for a cold foam recipe:
- whole milk
- heavy whipping cream
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How to make cold foam for coffee
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Ingredients
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- ½ cup milk
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Instructions
- Combine heavy cream and whole milk in a mason jar or glass measuring cup.
- Using a mini frother, froth the mixture until it is creamy and has thickened to a foam consistency.
- Pour the cold foam topping over your favorite hot or cold beverage and enjoy!
I am so happy to bump into this recipe!
I can now make a cold foam topping at home to make my coffee more attractive and tastier! I will definitely try this!
I always frothed my milk hot. Never thought of doing it cold. This recipe was great! My milk/cream mixture turned out so creamy. Thanks!