Fraps: The Basics- Use cold coffee- put 10 regular ice cubes in2 blender, poor milk & cold coffee in to just below top of highest ice cube (adjust ratio 4 ur tastes), @ this point I use caramel, chocolate, or some other flavored syrup to both flavor & sweeten, pulse blend & listen 4 no more ice cubes bouncing around (time in between pulses allows 4 remaining chunks to sink back down), @ end give it about a 3 to 5 second ‘on’ blend…if 2 liquidy use less ‘liquids’ next time. But if you don’t get enough liquids n’the blender its harder 2 get ice cubes blended. These make about 12 0z glasses of Frap.
Use same amount of ice cubes and 8 to 12 ounces of flavored yogurt for great smoothies quickly.
Or find big cans of Cafe D’Vitta at Sam’s or Costco (they have caramel, chocolate,….flavors) same directions as coffee drink except add 1 scoop (scoop that comes with it) and then add milk, blend(only use mix, ice, and milk. no reason to add flavors or coffee, unless of course you want to). They are great, 4lb canisters, by the time you figure how many Fraps this canister of powder mix makes it is WELL WORTH IT for a 10 dollar, 4lb, can of mix.
Additional things I do: Add more caramel sauce to it, or mexican or regular chocolate sauce, a few coffee beans to blender for speckled look, add peanut butter, find the Dulce De Leche sauce in ‘select’ groceries stores…yum.
Steal lots of BIG STRAWS – (McD’s or Coffee Shop straws) haven’t found that they sell the big ones in any stores yet so I just get a few each time I am at Stab*cks, Pete’s, or McD’s
This is not definitive…just a quick guide for my friends who asked. If you have a coffee shop friend get him to let you ‘have’ a big buckets of Big Train powder mix.
In my professional making and drinking opinion, powders work better than flavored syrups and help thicken Fraps to smoothness better….Using powdered creamer IS NOT A GOOD IDEA, you will soon become tired of the ‘taste’ that comes from powdered creamer, try using some powdered milk.
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