2 Easy Ways to Make Dalgona Coffee
Dalgona coffee is a hot new trend that you’ve been seeing all over the internet and today we are going to guide you through how to make not one but two flavors.
It is easy and enjoyable.
Let’s start with the classic Dalgona coffee, which like we mentioned before you’ve been seeing all over nowadays. It is a simple, whipped coffee drink using only three ingredients paired with your milk and tastes, almost like coffee ice cream, a treat, that is truly hard to beat!
The best part is, it is quite simple.
Ingredients and Process of Making Dalgona Coffee
We are going to start with two packages of instant coffee. If you have an instant coffee in a jar (not packets), it would be equivalent to one and a half tablespoons of freeze-dried instant coffee.
Let’s add that to a mixing bowl along with the sugar. Next, add two teaspoons of sugar and finally another one and a half tablespoons of hot water.
At this point, you can choose to whisk it up with this manual whisk, which will take a lot of arm strength and takes more time, so to save time and soreness of the arm, you would be much better off using an electric mixer to get the job done in about a minute.
Once your instant coffee dissolves, mix it up and let it get nice and frothy for about a minute. You’ll see the coffee transform into this foam. The crema that you get from a typical shot of espresso binds with the sugar to stabilize. Then you get this nice frothy foam Dalgona.
A fair question would be, how would you know when to stop?
It would be when the consistency is very similar to a meringue, that you would whip up or egg whites. By now it should have a nice pale golden brown color, a little bitter, but it’ll mix beautifully with milk.
Fill up your serving cup or glass three-quarters of the way with milk, using your favorite one.
Now take a spoon or ice cream scoop and add a few ones on the top of the milk. The foam will just flow on top of our milk and create that gorgeous coffee cloud. Mix the foam in with the melt and it’ll deflate a little bit on top, but that’s not a big problem at all.
It might look even more attractive spilled over.
You are all set! Enjoy!
Few side notes.
You can always adjust the amount of sugar to your taste to reduce the intensity of the coffee.
During the hot summer months, you can add some ice to your milk and it will most likely remind you of a coffee ice cream.
Last but not least, this is not a high caffeinated drink, but more like a coffee-flavored dessert.
Matcha Cream Dalgona Version
Next, up let’s take a look at a Matcha cream Dalgona version.
For this one, you will need a little bit of whipped cream to help the Matcha foam up.
The difference is coffee has that stabilizing agent or the crema after it’s been roasted, so when it’s mixed up with sugar, it stabilizes and whips up into that beautiful foam.
Matcha on the other hand is just a tea powder and it doesn’t have that. The first step is whipping up our cream, heavy cream.
Add a quarter cup of heavy cream along with two teaspoons of sugar and half teaspoon of vanilla extract to the mixing bowl.
Grab an electric mixer and start whipping it up until it gets nice and frothy.
Once you get that meringue consistency, you can add your Matcha. You do not want to add it in the beginning, because the froth is not going to have that brilliant, lively green color.
Next, add two teaspoons of matcha powder. There are several grades of matcha available on the market.The one that is being used in this particular one is an all-purpose one (the link is in the body of the post). If you would want to use a ceremonial grade (the extra fancy one) just reduce it to one teaspoon.
Now back to mixing till it reaches the consistency of original Dalgona coffee.
Be careful and make sure you don’t make butter out of your mix!
After all, you are working with heavy cream. It should be soft and fluffy.
Next up fill the cup or glass with the milk of your choice to three quarters, take a spoon or ice cream scoop, and put your matcha on the top.
If you want to make it super pretty, you can sprinkle some matcha powder on the top of your foam!
If You have a favorite way of making a Dalgona Coffee or Matcha Cream, share below in comments or send us an email and we may publish it in our next “How To” post!
FOLLOW US:
Our Favorite Coffee
LifeBoost is a health and environmentally conscious coffee brand that sells all organic low acid coffee, non GMO, Fair Trade, Certified Kosher and it is our teams go to coffee! They also offer our readers 50% off for all first time customers. So give it a try, and see why it’s our go-to!