Ískaffi

Iced coffee

Heatwave is called “hitabylgja” in Icelandic. Okay, how “heat wave” is defined varies greatly. In Iceland it feels like midsummer starts at 60 °F (15 °C) at the latest, people wear flip-flops and tank tops and shorts. While the model tourists are of course still walking around in windbreakers, long trousers and thick hiking boots. I think 60 °F (15 °C) in Iceland really feels much warmer than the same temperature in most other countries...

So if you want to be prepared for the next heat wave (even if it is only an Iceland "heatwave"), I can recommend this iced "milk coffee" as a drink to cool you down. (For various reasons, we only have it with decaffeinated coffee. But it tastes good too!)

Ingredients

1 ripe banana

400 ml milk

1 tsp baking cocoa

1 Tbsp honey

200 ml cold coffee

Ice cubes

Preparation

Peel the banana and put it in the blender with the milk, cocoa, honey and cold coffee.

Puree everything thoroughly, then pour into glasses, add the ice cubes and serve immediately.

[Translated from here.]