Make your own creamy blended frozen mocha at home, with this easy step-by-step recipe. You don’t even need to leave your pajamas!
You’ll love this blended frozen mocha drink
- Tastes like a local coffee shop beverage, at a fraction of the cost.
- Thick, whipped texture and extra chocolatey flavor!
- Quick and simple to prepare in your kitchen with just 6 ingredients.
- Easily adaptable for dairy free or sugar free versions.
- You’ll find absolutely no artificial syrups here. The rich mocha flavor comes from real coffee and high quality cocoa powder.
- If you like the popular Starbucks Mocha Frappuccinos, this refreshing homemade recipe may become your new go-to chilled coffee drink.
Also try these Sweet Potato Brownies
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Benefits of making your own mocha coffee at home
Frozen coffees are seemingly everywhere these days.
From Starbucks, to McDonalds, to Dunkin Donuts, you don’t have to travel far to get your summer coffee fix.
It probably comes as no surprise that these frosty coffee drinks are far from healthy. A McDonalds Frappe Mocha packs 560 calories, 70 grams sugar(!), and an entire day’s worth of saturated fat into just one 16 ounce glass.
And a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino, weighing in with 360 calories and 54 grams sugar, is hardly much better.
Luckily, recreating these creamy blended mocha beverages at home is extremely easy and can save you hundreds of calories per serving.
Not to mention all that sugar.
Topping it with Coconut Whipped Cream barely even moves the nutrition stats on this smooth, frosty beverage.
Translation: You can top your creamy frosted mocha drink with a mountain of homemade whipped cream.
All iced coffee should come with a mountain of whipped cream.
Mocha whipped coffee ingredients
Coffee – The recipe calls for instant coffee, which provides an intense coffee flavor without watering down the drink. You may use regular or decaf coffee granules.
Milk – Use full fat coconut milk, soymilk, whole milk, or barista oat milk for extra creamy results. Or go with low calorie unsweetened almond milk if you want a light version.
Cocoa Powder – Choose high quality unsweetened cocoa powder to give the coffee beverage a bold chocolate taste. As a fun variation, swap the cocoa for hot chocolate powder instead.
Sweetener – Add your favorite sweetener of choice to taste. Options that work well include regular sugar or unrefined sugar, pure maple syrup, honey, pitted dates, or sugar free stevia or powdered monk fruit. I do not provide a specific amount of sweetener in the recipe because it depends on if you use a sweetened milk and your own personal tastes. Taste the mixture before freezing, and sweeten as desired.
Other Ingredients – The frozen mocha recipe also calls for a pinch of salt for balance and pure vanilla extract to deepen the chocolate and coffee flavors.
How to make a blended frozen mocha beverage
- Begin by combining the milk, cocoa powder, instant coffee granules, vanilla extract, salt, and sweetener in a large measuring cup. Whisk all ingredients well.
- Taste, the increase sweetener if needed. You want the mixture to taste a little overly sweet, because the intensity of the sweetness decreases once frozen.
- Pour into an ice cube tray or a shallow plastic container. Popsicle molds work too. You can do this step days in advance, for an almost instant frozen coffee whenever a craving hits.
- Once frozen, pop the coffee mixture out of the containers and into a high speed blender. (Note: If your blender is not very powerful, let the coffee ice cubes thaw a bit before processing in the machine. You can technically make the recipe in a personal blender or food processor if the frozen coffee thaws first.)
- Blend on high until thick and frosty, with a slushy Frappuccino texture.
- Top the single serving frozen beverage with whipped cream and chocolate syrup or hot fudge sauce. Or dust with cocoa powder and serve in a fancy chilled glass with a straw.
For an option without a blender, make this Vegan Iced Latte
Blended Frozen Mocha
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk of choice (240g)
- 1 1/2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder (7g)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp instant coffee (decaf or regular)
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 tbsp sugar or sweetener of choice to taste
Instructions
- 1. Whisk all ingredients together until evenly mixed.
- 2. Taste, then add sweetener as needed. You want it to taste a little overly sweet, as the sweetness will decrease once frozen.
- 3. Pour the mixture into an ice cube tray, shallow plastic container, or popsicle molds. Freeze. (You can do this step days in advance.)
- 4. Pop the frozen coffee into a high speed blender. Or if using a regular (not as powerful) blender, allow the coffee ice cubes to thaw enough that your machine can easily blend them. Blend on high until thick and slushy, with a texture similar to a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino.
- 5. Serve with whipped cream and chocolate syrup if desired.
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Ooh, I can’t wait to see what the new site looks like! Don’t know whether this is incorporated in your design yet, but an extra category dedicated to fudge in the recipe index would be cool! 🙂
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Please add the YUM button for adding your recipe to our collections!!!!
Agreed!!
Not sure what that is, but I will ask my web designer about it.
omg….this doesn´t look good…it looks INSANELY good Katie!!!
Can´t wait to see your new site!!! 🙂
Looks delicious! I can’t want for the new site!
As a fellow coffee addict, I am in LOVE with this recipe!
What a great trick for homemade coffee drinks- freezing the coffee instead of adding ice! I’m going to pour my leftover coffee into ice cube trays tomorrow morning. Your coconut whipped cream has been a longtime favorite around here, too. Can’t wait for my healthy frappucino.
You seriously always have the best recipes! This looks super yummy!!
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A search function would be so helpful on your website!
Hi CSO! There actually IS a search function already. It’s hiding right above the bloglovin button on the right-hand side. 🙂
I can’t believe only 6 calories for 1/3 cup of whip ‘cream’. I will be trying soon! Thanks Katie=)
This looks so good. My parents are obsessed with both Starbucks and McDonald’s frappes. I’m definitely going to have to show them this.
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Would I sub 2 tbsp maple syrup for the sugar?
Yes, but *up* to 2 tbsp. It will be less if you use a milk that is sweetened or if your tastebuds like things less sweet.
OMG, I could drink this so hard right now! Looks so good. And can’t to see the new design!
Hi Katie! I just wanted to say thank you for all that you do to post these delicious recipes. This is my first time posting on the blog and I wanted to let you know that your recipes were a life saver when I was going through some serious blood sugar problems and needed some sugar free vegan food (breakfast and desserts) and was getting tired of the same old thing over and over… I was very limited in what I could eat at the time. But I’ve been following your blog ever since and it’s inspired me to be creative in the kitchen myself.
Now, as for the suggestions for the new site, I would like (if it’s possible) a way to search by ingredient. There’s not always a “tag” for what I’m looking for and I don’t always remember how to look up by that and most new readers probably wouldn’t know how to search by tag. The search feature on the site doesn’t always come up with just relevant posts related to the search term (for instance, if I search for a term and even instances where that term is only included in the link of the day or mentioned in the post, but not actually part of the recipe clutters up the search).
Also, I love being able to see a pic with the recipe listings, but there are times when I’m searching for something specific and a recipe listing without pics so that more could fit on the page would be extremely helpful. I don’t always like going page by page a few recipes at a time looking for what I want. So, a link to a list of recipe links for all your recipes would be nice (and it would be easily searchable by ctrl+f). Most recipe sites have something like this.
And one last thing, which I know may not be something you’re considering, but there’s been links at the bottom of your posts that takes us offsite to listings of recipes for various sites that most of the recipes don’t seem to be vegan friendly. I feel like, as a vegan, while we shouldn’t be judging or attacking others for their choices, it is counterproductive to direct others to animal products. I know you have your reasons for it, but that’s just my two cents on the matter.
Anyways, thank you again for all you do and I’m sorry for the really long post… I just wanted to make sure I was making sense in how I described things.
Thanks for the feedback! My web designer is looking over the replies in this post and will let me know what is and what isn’t do-able. I hear you on the search feature, and what I sometimes do if I’m looking for a recipe with a certain ingredient (for example, strawberries) is I will google “chocolate covered katie strawberries feastie” and a website called Feastie has my recipes categorized 🙂
The ads are done through my ad network. I actually have a very good reason for deciding to leave them up that helps veganism, and if you want to know more please feel free to email me!
Thanks for the tip for the ingredient search! I will definitely check it out later.
I figured that having your recipes up on that network probably brings in non-vegans to your site. But it’s just unexpected to start seeing meat burgers and the like when visiting a vegan website.
Anyways, thanks for all you do.
I hope you keep the pretty pic of you on the page… your smile always brightens my day!
This brightened mine 🙂
hello there… i am so tickled to get this recipe for frozen creamy blended mocha.. i dont have money to help support u in your cookbooks but i will try to on your site.. if you need any stars …:) i am good at that.. Bless your heart for including me in without having to give money.. I have some serious inflammation problems and found coconut palm sugar does not give me the same crazy fuel as in headache and kidney sluggishness, real bad… and often pain is the first clue that will help me but its something my dr has not recognized really as people never, she said even diabetics dont want to live without that sugar … anyways… more natural unprocessed sugar works for me..otherwise i am well aware that if i do consume it eventually i get inflammation almost all over to the touch and crazy migraines and a stopped up kidney.. duh, i am going to follow the rules… the ones that work… not just dr eat wat you want… big deal if you die ideas?? sorry for getting a lil upset there 🙂 i am fine otherwise. Just wanted to let you know i was wondering how to make tim hortons ice capps and yesterday i cud hardly stand it!!! and so…big smiles from my heart to yours.. and please, will you keep me so i can keep learning from you.. I NeeD u and appreciate your work:) sincerely “glow”ing:) … much more since u r helping with recipes… let me help you with some gr8 feedback if u can work that out.. you get high rates from me:) all the best to a girl who saved my enthusiasm up and brot me back in a supportive way;)
Aw well thank you! The recipes on the new site will have a rating system, so I’d be so honored if you rated your favorites highly. You do NOT need to buy my book to support this site. Just by reading and telling others about the site, it is people like you who enable me to do what I love. So thank you 🙂
May seem very minor, but I always thought that it was odd the the category for ‘healthy meal ideas’ was amongst the rest of the cakes and cookies etc. It might be better when it is just after them perhaps? Otherwise, should be good!
No feedback is minor! My web designer is looking through these comments and will let me know any last-minute changes that we’ll be able to make 🙂