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Get the Recipe: Creamy & Light Dalgona Coffee Recipe

Dalgona coffee is a whipped, frothy iced coffee drink made with instant coffee, sugar, water, and milk. Also known as whipped coffee, frothy coffee, or fluffy coffee, dalgona coffee has two distinct layers made from whipped coffee cream sitting on top of iced milk. It's crazy fun and easy to make at home, too!
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Ingredients

For the Dalgona Coffee

  • 2 Tablespoons instant coffee granules
  • 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons hot (freshly boiled) water
  • ½ cup ice
  • 1 cup (8 ounces or 227 grams) cow or plant-based milk of your choice
  • cocoa powder, for garnish (optional)

Instructions
 

For the Dalgona Coffee

  • First, make the dalgona coffee cream. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or a medium bowl if using a whisk, handheld electric mixer, or milk frother), combine the coffee and sugar. Add the hot water and immediately whisk on medium-high speed until light, airy, and doubled in volume, 2 to 4 minutes.
  • Serve immediately. Pour the milk over the ice in a tall glass. Use a rubber spatula or cookie dough scoop to scrape the dalgona coffee cream over the milk. Garnish with a dusting of cocoa powder. Serve immediately with a straw.

Notes

  • The recipe below is adapted from the LA Times recipe and makes just one dalgona coffee. All in all, it’s about the size of one grande drink at Starbucks. If that’s too much for you to handle, no worries! Halve the recipe into two servings by splitting the milk into two glasses and dividing the dalgona coffee cream in between them. Alternatively, you can also just halve the quantities of the recipe below and make just one serving of dalgona coffee. However, I wouldn’t recommend splitting it further than that—small quantities of ingredients don’t whip up as well.
  • Dalgona coffee keeps for a surprisingly long time. If you don’t want to use the coffee cream right away, simply scoop the cream into an airtight container like a tupperware or jar. Refrigerate for up to 3 days. That being said, storing it away works best if you’ve whipped it into oblivion. Whip it to the point where it has the consistency of whipped cream; a whisk quickly dipped into the center of the foam and turned upside down should hold peaks. However, after 3 days or so, it loses its fluffy texture and starts to turn back into liquid coffee.
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