An ancient 'superfood' sent from heaven
The rise of Starbucks had people craving this sweet, caffeinated, customizable frozen coffee beverage, and you can make your own version at home.
The healthier home version, which is also much more affordable, just requires a milk of your choice, vanilla extract, instant coffee, and a sweetener of your choice. Whisk together, freeze, then blend until desired slushiness is reached. You can customize it with caramel sauce and a bit of salt, pumpkin puree, and pie spice, etc.
The South Korean drink is made from just three ingredients: instant coffee, sugar, and hot water.
Those who aren’t into coffee but wanted to get in on the fluffy drink experience created whipped strawberry milk. Just use one tablespoon of strawberry Nesquik powder and 1/4 cup of heavy cream, whisk it until there are stiff peaks, and then serve it over iced milk.
For one person, whip a tablespoon of each ingredient until they become fluffy and creamy, then add it to iced or hot milk.
You can also make a chocolate version of this magical recipe, using 1/2 teaspoon of cocoa powder, one teaspoon of sugar, and three tablespoons of heavy whipping cream, then serve over iced milk.
Another coffee beverage made popular by Starbucks, cold brew seems fancy but is actually very simple and relies mostly on time. It’s popular with those who want a less acidic caffeine hit.
Mix coarsely ground coffee with cool water and steep the mixture in the fridge for at least 12 hours. Strain it, and you're left with a strong concentrate, which you can then dilute with ice or milk. You can store it for up to two weeks.
This outrageous Australian “milkshake” hit its peak around 2016, and it is overindulgence at its finest. Unsurprisingly, kids love them.
Beyoncé made this tea, also referred to as a kind of lemonade, famous with the controversial “Master Cleanse,” wherein she avoided solid foods and relied on one drink for 10 days.
Maybe you’ve started to see this expensively priced in cafés, but it’s actually very cheap to make. At its simplest, it’s hot milk and ground turmeric, but you can mix in grated ginger, star anise, honey, cinnamon, and dairy alternatives.
This traditional Indian drink with roots in Ayurveda is used for its immunity boosting and anti-inflammatory properties. It's also just nourishing and warm.
They are thick ice-cream milkshakes usually in a mason jar decorated with a ganache, topped with cream, cake, sauce, and whatever other sweets you can pile on.
Authentic blooming tea is hand-sewn by skilled Chinese artisans who create a bundle of dried tea leaves wrapped around one or more dried flowers. It boasts positive health effects on your metabolism, skin, stress, heart, and inflammation.
While it’s not recommended for most people, starting your day with the combination of lemon juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water (either hot or cold) can help stimulate digestion.
After you acquire the bulb, you just need to steep it in hot water in a clear glass container. This is where the viral part comes in: you can watch the bulb expand and unfurl emulating a blooming flower!
As the world went crazy for avocado, the Vietnamese avocado shake, Sinh tố bơ, found popularity too. It tastes like a vanilla milkshake but has fiber, healthy fats, and other essential vitamins and nutrients.
And it’s really simple! You just have to blend milk, sweetened condensed milk, ice, and avocado in a blender until very smooth.
Mash a strawberry, add ice, soju, Sprite, and the Yakult, and enjoy the strangely delicious combination of citrus, sweet, tangy, and creamy.
The drink, also known as Heytea, started as a massive trend in Asia in 2017, and while it sounds strange, it also had people queuing around the block.
For this recipe you need soju, which is a clear, colorless, distilled Korean alcohol. You’ll also need a sweetened, fermented probiotic milk beverage like Yakult, or a sweetened yogurt if you can’t find any.
Charcoal hit its peak in 2018 with a claim to a myriad of health benefits, largely its detoxifying component, as well as its very photogenic dark appearance.
It’s essentially a fluffy, thick, creamy mixture of whipped cream and cream cheese poured over the drink of your choice, mixing a hint of saltiness with an oolong tea, which apparently taste beautifully rich together.
It requires activated charcoal, almond milk, vanilla, a sweetener of your choice, and an optional shot of espresso. But before you rush to make it, just know that doctors warn that it can strip you of good nutrients as well as bad.
For an easy at-home fix, mix taro powder, a non-dairy creamer, sugar, water, and serve over ice. You can also add in black tea if you’re looking for caffeine. If you’re feeling fancy, add tapioca pearls.
It’s the sweet, purple drink that preceded Starbucks’ unicorn drink, and it’s long been popular among bubble tea lovers. Much of the focus is actually on the floral and nutty blend of the root vegetable and milk.
Chai is a spiced black tea originating in India, which found immense popularity in the West in the early 2010s as a much more sweetened chai latte, which uses steamed milk. A dirty chai latte adds a shot of espresso to it all.
It may be a blasphemous combination, but the commercial version is like a dessert. You can easily make it with chai concentrate or tea (the spices are already in there), steamed milk, and a single shot of espresso.
Whipped coffee, or Dalgona coffee, has taken the Internet by storm recently. Its photogenic fluffiness has tantalized anyone who has laid eyes on it. It’s surprisingly easy to make, so the drink is having its due moment in the spotlight.
Over the years, many drinks have come into fashion, some for health reasons, some in rebellion to all these healthy drinks, some because of celebrities, and others because of the pandemic (quarantini, we’re looking at you). Click through to see the trendiest beverages and how to make them for yourself.
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Whipped coffee, or Dalgona coffee, has taken the Internet by storm recently. Its photogenic fluffiness has tantalized anyone who has laid eyes on it. It’s surprisingly easy to make, so the drink is having its due moment in the spotlight.
Over the years, many drinks have come into fashion, some for health reasons, some in rebellion to all these healthy drinks, some because of celebrities, and others because of the pandemic (quarantini, we’re looking at you). Click through to see the trendiest beverages and how to make them for yourself.