Turn those cold dregs in a bottom of a coffee pot into something delicious.
How mostly have we done a large pot of coffee, optimistically meditative you’ll splash it all, though afterwards forgetful about it after your initial cup? Maybe it sits there until a subsequent morning, when a suspicion of celebration day-old coffee is adequate to make we wish to go behind to bed, so we dump it down a penetrate and start fresh.
Next time, don’t dump it! There are countless ways to use aged coffee so it doesn’t go to waste. Maybe you’ll find it so juicy that you’ll start creation additional coffee on a unchanging basis, only to have this juicy further on hand.
1. Make ice cream.
Homemade ice cream is boundless and surprisingly easy to make with an ice cream maker. Add leftover coffee to a vanilla custard bottom for a decadent dessert. Check out this in-depth guideline to creation dairy-based coffee ice creams of all forms or this recipe for vegan cashew-based chocolate-coffee ice cream.
If we don’t have an ice cream maker, revisit Craigslist or another online barter site; they’re mostly accessible during reduced prices and really a fun kitchen apparatus to have, if we like cooking.
2. Get baking.
Many recipes for baked products call for clever coffee to supplement a jar of season and some dim color. Try creation these Perfect Chocolate Coffee Scones or these Caffeinated Coffee Brownies. Learn how coffee can “enhance that abounding chocolate flavor” in brownies, according to Bon Appétit. Add it to cheesecake or reinstate any liqueur with some clever espresso.
3. Use a freezer.
I found this cold recipe on Food52 for latte freezer pops and can’t wait to try them when a continue warms adult – homemade popsicles done from leftover coffee churned with almond milk.
Alternatively, we can flow aged coffee directly into an ice brick tray and solidify for destiny iced coffees. Best partial about it? The melting cubes will not intermix your drink.
4. Cook with it.
Turn it into decadent, palatable coffee pudding, pleasantness of Not Without Salt. Stir it into oatmeal (baked or boiled) or rice pudding. Make mocha syrup for weekend waffles or pancakes. Add it to meal or chili in a crockpot. Mark Bittman has a tantalizing recipe for vegan espresso black bean chili that has so most caffeine he recommends regulating decaf if you’re formulation to go to bed early. Use it for a marinade, like this Coffee-Marinated Skirt Steak.
5. Reheat!
This is a simplest approach to suffer leftover coffee, nonetheless it competence take some jazzing adult to get over a fact that it’s not accurately fresh. Try consistent with 1 crater with a teaspoon of coconut oil and a teaspoon of butter. (It’s called ‘bulletproof coffee’.) Pour into a mug, supplement some divert or almond divert if desired, and x-ray until hot.
You can also renovate it into African coffee, with a further of spices, really identical to Indian chai.