Celebrate with an iced coffee!

princess abumere 11:04 - 07 October 2015

Frappe

According to the stories, in a bid to satisfy a nagging coffee craving, a Nestle sales representative accidentally created this drink.

In case you didn’t know, today, Wednesday, October 7, 2015 is frappé day. Frappé is an iced coffee drink made from instant coffee covered with foam.

History has it that this beverage was created in the 1950s in the city of Thessaloniki in Greece. According to the stories, in a bid to satisfy a nagging coffee craving, a Nestle sales representative accidentally created this drink at a trade fair in the Greek city.

Read: 5 great ways to instantly revamp your coffee

We’ve found a recipe from Nescafé for you to make this Greek coffee at home.

What you need:

2 tea spoons Nescafé
2-tea spoons sugar
Drinking water
Ice cubes

Read: Coffeelicious! - Iced Vanilla Caramel Coffee

Directions:

Fill a drink/cocktail shaker with 10-15ml of water. Water can be warm or cold. (In case where you don’t have a drink shaker, you can use a hand mixer).
Add two teaspoonful of NESCAFÉ.
Put in one teaspoonful of sugar, or more, depending how sweet you would like it.
Shake strongly until all the water becomes foam. Pour out mixture into a glass.
Put 3-4 ice cubes in the glass.
For black NESCAFÉ Frappé fill glass with cold water.
For white NESCAFÉ Frappé, add 20-30ml cold milk.
Garnish with a slice of banana. You can also put some whip cream on top of your drink.

This serves one. Happy Frappé Day!