DALGONA COFFEE🍵

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What is Dalgona Coffee🍵?

Dalgona coffee is a whipped frothy coffee that’s made from instant coffee and sugar, then put on milk. It’s called dalgona because the fluffy creamy coffee looks like dalgona candy, a candy from South Korea that’s just like honeycomb toffee or sponge toffee. You’ve probably eaten honeycomb toffee before, covered in chocolate. I haven’t had it in years but it’s good.


How to make dalgona coffee

  1. Boil. You need just off the boil hot water to instantly melt your coffee crystals. Just bring a small pot of water to a boil.
  2. Mix. In a bowl, stir together equal parts instant coffee and sugar.
  3. Fluff. When the water has come to a boil, immediately add the water to the bowl of coffee and sugar and start to whip. Use a whisk or hand mixer to whip until light, frothy, and thick.
  4. Pour. Fill a glass (or two) with ice and pour in cold milk.
  5. Top. Top the glasses of milk with the fluffy dalgona coffee. Stir and enjoy!

Whipped coffee ingredients

  • Instant Coffee: You want granulated instant coffee crystals without any add-ins or flavors. Some people have reported a certain brand or another not working. I keep it simple and use Nescafe Clasico Instant Coffee.
  • Sweetener: I use sugar here, but you can use any you want, including stevia in the raw, splenda, or something else. It’s really bitter without a sweetener though (duh) so you should definitely include this. The sugar also helps the fluffy coffee part stay fluffy.
  • Milk: Any milk is good! I use 2% here. You can substitute your favorite milk: almond milk, soy milk, oat milk. It’s the biggest part of the drink so make sure it’s a milk you like!

 

What kind of milk can I use in dalgona coffee?

You can use any kind of milk or milk substitute you like: almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, coconut milk, rice milk, cashew milk, macadamia milk, essentially any milk that has a creamy mouth feel.

Hot Milk vs Cold Milk Dalgona Coffee

You can use hot milk or iced/cold, it’s up to you! I went with iced because it makes the milk go farther and I need to stretch out my milk for as long as possible because I’m literally frightened to go to the grocery store. You can also use evaporated milk (which comes in cans, perfect!), either watered down a bit or not.


 

What is the best equipment for whipped coffee?

  1. Hand Held Electric Mixer – This is probably the easiest way because you can press your whisks right up against the mixture and you don’t need to use any arm strength.
  2. Stand Mixer – This is hands free but you need to make sure you have enough liquid in the bowl so that the whisks actually touch the mixture. You’ll probably need to do a triple or quadruple batch.
  3. Small Whisk or Matcha Whisk – This is the cheapest way to whip and what I personally do. It works and it works well and you don’t have to get a machine out to do it. It takes some time but hey, it’s not like I’m getting much exercise right now, so I think this is my number 1 choice even though I put it down as number 3.
  4. Hand Held Frother – You can use a hand held frother but it needs to be very very powerful and you need to do it for a LONG time and you will probably get frustrated. If you do use a frother, put the mixture in a jar or cup instead of a bowl, it’ll make it a tiny bit easier.
  5. Jar – You can put everything in a jar and shake it up. This is actually how they make frappe coffee in Greece. It doesn’t get as thick but it does get foamy.

 

Can I put other stuff in my whipped coffee? Yes, here are some variations:

  • Mocha: whip up the dalgona, but then add 1-2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and you have a mocha!
  • Matcha: Follow our Dalgona Matcha recipe!
  • Maple: use maple syrup instead of sugar for a maple dalgona
  • Pumpkin spice dalgona coffee: stir in 1 tablespoon pumpkin puree into your milk and whip 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice up with the dalgona fluff. This tastes best with hot milk but goes with cold milk too.
  • Gingerbread dalgona coffee: add 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon ginger when you add the sugar to the dalgona and whip up. Stir in 1 teaspoon of molasses into the milk.
  • Honey: use honey for a honey dalgona
  • Less sugar: you can adjust the sugar content to your preference, if you like it sweeter, add more sugar, if you think it’s too sweet, add less

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp instant coffee
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp very hot water
  • 2 glasses milk with ice cubes

Instructions

  • Bring small pot of water to a boil. While the water’s coming to a boil, make the dalgona coffee fluff: In a bowl, mix together the instant coffee and sugar.

  • Once the water comes to a boil, carefully add 2 tablespoons of the hot water to the coffee sugar mix and whisk or use a hand mixer to whip until light and frothy.

  • Fill two glasses with ice and pour in the milk. Top the glasses with equal amounts of the fluffy coffee. Stir throughly before enjoying!

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