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Iced cocoa coffee with soy milk in a tall glass on a wooden table, a small bowl of cocoa powder beside it

Coffee for Weight Loss? An Iced Cocoa Coffee With No Added Sugar

Prep
5 min
Cook
5 min
Resting
1 h
Total
1 h 10 min
Servings
1 glass

Chilled brewed coffee shaken with unsweetened soy milk and a spoon of cocoa, poured over ice: about 75 calories and 7 g of protein a glass, no sugar added. Then what the caffeine trials, one appetite study and the blood sugar research really say about coffee and your weight.

Ingredients

  • 1 cupbrewed coffee, 237 ml (8 fl oz), regular strength, freshly made
  • 1 tbspunsweetened cocoa powder, about 5 g
  • 3/4 cupunsweetened soy milk, 180 ml, cold
  • 1 cupice cubes

Instructions

  1. Melt the cocoa into hot coffee. Brew a cup of coffee the way you usually do. While it is still hot, put the cocoa powder in a mug or a heatproof jar, add 2 tablespoons of the coffee and stir into a smooth, glossy paste with no dry lumps. Pour in the rest of the coffee and stir again. Cocoa dissolves in hot liquid; added straight to cold coffee, it floats in clumps.
    A white mug of hot coffee with cocoa powder being stirred in with a spoon, a small bowl of cocoa powder on a wooden table
  2. Chill it. Let the cocoa coffee cool on the counter for 10 minutes, then cover it and refrigerate for at least an hour, or overnight. Cold coffee means the ice melts slowly and the drink stays strong instead of watery.
    A closed glass jar of dark cocoa coffee cooling on a wooden kitchen counter, a white mug and a little spilled cocoa beside it
  3. Shake and pour over ice. Pour the chilled cocoa coffee and the cold soy milk into a jar with a tight lid and shake hard for 15 seconds, until a light foam forms on top. Fill a tall glass with ice, pour it over and drink it plain first. Most of the time it does not need anything else.
    A jar of foamy iced cocoa coffee with soy milk next to a tall glass of it over ice, a white jug of soy milk behind them

Notes

  • Brew a few cups at once and keep the cocoa coffee in a closed jar in the fridge; shake each glass with the milk just before drinking.
  • Soy milk is my pick here because it brings protein to the glass. Shake it well: the foam is what makes this taste like a café drink.
  • Karim shook up a glass on November 6 without changing a thing. It came together fast, tasted delicious and had exactly the texture Karim was after: worth making again.

Nutrition Facts

Per serving (estimated) : Calories: 75 | Total Carbohydrate: 6 g | Protein: 7 g | Total Fat: 4 g | Sodium: 73 mg

Category: Smoothies & DrinksAuthor: Karim MCuisine: American