Interesting Uses for Coffee Syrup?

April 2, 2011 10:48 AM

RecipeFilter: What should I do with all this Rhode Island coffee syrup?

For reasons not worth explaining, I have in my possession an ungodly amount of traditional coffee syrup. Other than making coffee milk, what can I do with it? Ideas that use large amounts are especially welcome.

posted by .kobayashi. to Food & Drink (10 answers total)

I've adjusted my post-gym routine to include coffee milk instead of chocolate milk and that uses up some of it. It's great on ice cream and I'm sure you could make something up with mashing up some vanilla ice cream, mixing in a ton of coffee syrup and then making little coffee ice cream sandwiches with sugar cookies or something. I also have a lot of it and I'm always looking for ways to sneak it in to desserts. You could also make coffee ice cubes in bulk and use them in iced coffee drinks once it gets warmer.
posted by jessamyn at 10:58 AM on April 2, 2011

It's a good addition to moist spice cake or ginger cake: adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe to offset the syrup.
posted by holgate at 11:18 AM on April 2, 2011

That sounds delicious! Have you seen the recipes on Autocrat's website, some of which use up to 1 cup of coffee syrup?
posted by Houstonian at 11:21 AM on April 2, 2011

I'd think you could substitute it for chocolate syrup in a lot of recipes, like these brownies. Haven't tried that myself, though.
posted by lakeroon at 11:26 AM on April 2, 2011

I'll take some if it off your hands! :-) I've always wanted to try that, but sadly I live on the wring coast.
posted by karizma at 12:07 PM on April 2, 2011

*wrong*
posted by karizma at 12:08 PM on April 2, 2011

Have a pirate themed Anti-Tea Party with coffee and rum.
posted by effluvia at 12:22 PM on April 2, 2011

Italian sodas? I bet it'd work.
posted by fairytale of los angeles at 1:06 PM on April 2, 2011

Coffee milk and Del's Frozen Lemonade are two of the things I miss the most about living in Rhode Island.
posted by starvingartist at 4:04 PM on April 2, 2011

Bait for insect traps? I love coffee, but this stuff has never worked for me. (Then again, I have only lived here for ten years...)

It goes well with vanilla ice cream into a malt/shake/frappe/cabinet/McGuffin/whatevah; I think I tried making coffee ice cream with this and it wasn't successful. My mom used to add coffee to her chocolate chip cookies, and some day I should probably try the same thing but using coffee syrup. It might be an approach to making a granita or sorbet, but I am firmly in the ice-cream-over-sorbet camp. Wow, do I sound intolerant!

Note that jessamyn's suggestion of making ice cubes out of it will have the side effect of sweetening your beverage as the cubes melt. I drink black iced coffee, so this also doesn't meet my needs -- but it's a fine idea otherwise.
posted by wenestvedt at 10:44 AM on April 4, 2011