Is whipped coffee healthy

Whipped coffee, also called Dalgona coffee, became quite popular on Tiktok in the early months of 2020. It is a milk latte with mousse-like coffee foam on top. With only three common ingredients, you will find it especially easy and fun to make whipped coffee at home.

Ingredients

2 tbsp instant coffee

2 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp hot water

1/4 to 1/2 cup milk

1 cup ice

How to make whipped coffee

• Combine the instant coffee, sugar, and hot water in a medium or large bowl. Whisk all the ingredients with a hand mixer until the mixture gets smooth and frothy. To avoid hand cramps, you can also double the amount and whisk the mixture in your electric mixer. It will take a few minutes.
• Pour the milk into a glass and then top with ice cubes.
• Scoop the whipped coffee on top and serve immediately.

Is whipped coffee healthy?

Though whipped coffee is delicious, there’s no doubt that it is a calorie bomb. Generally, it contains six times the caffeine of a regular coffee, and it’s easy to add too much sugar, causing the calorie to grow greatly. Luckily, you can make your whipped coffee healthier by doing some adjustments.

• Replace granulated sugar: The sugar people generally use for whipped coffee is granulated sugar. For the sake of your health, you can replace it with one that can both melt well with instant coffee and create a frothy texture, such as granulated stevia and granulated monk fruit.
• Replace whole milk: To further cut down sugar, you can use alt-milk instead of traditional whole milk, including almond milk, oat milk, and even nut milk.

• Use decaf instant coffee: If you worry about the high amount of caffeine in whipped coffee, use decaf instant coffee instead. You may be wondering if you can use regular ground coffee to make it healthier, but the fact is that regular ground coffee can’t give you an airy texture when whipping. Nevertheless, you can try grinding regular coffee grounds with a coffee grinder in place of instant coffee.

How to enhance the whipped coffee flavor

With some extra ingredients, your whipped coffee can be more of your style. For example, you can add a bit of vanilla extract when whipping. Or just add some cocoa powder or cinnamon into the drink.