CinnaMonkey Cold Brew

Bananas foster, minus the skillet and the flame. This CinnaMonkey cold brew recipe stirs our Banana Coffee Syrup and caramel sauce into Frothy Cold Brew Concentrate, with a dash of ground cinnamon and a splash of oat milk to round it out. The banana is real fruit flavor, not candy, so the caramel has something to actually hang on. Build it in a pitcher first, then pour it over ice.

CinnaMonkey cold brew in a clear Frothy Monkey branded cup, cinnamon dusted over ice and cold foam on top.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Fill a 16 oz cup with ice.
  2. In a clean pitcher, combine the Frothy Cold Brew Concentrate, cold water, Banana Coffee Syrup, caramel sauce, ground cinnamon, and oat milk.
  3. Stir vigorously until the cinnamon is evenly suspended and no caramel is sitting on the bottom.
  4. Pour the mixture over the ice.
  5. Add cold foam if you want it, and finish with a dash of ground cinnamon.

Barista Tips

Why does the cinnamon have to go in before the ice?

Ground cinnamon doesn't dissolve, it suspends. In a pitcher with syrup and cold brew you can stir it through the liquid so it distributes evenly. Dump it straight onto a cup full of ice and it clumps, floats, and lands as a gritty first sip. Same reason the caramel sauce goes in the pitcher instead of the cup.

Can I use dairy milk instead of oat?

Yes. There's no fruit juice in this build, so dairy is safe here. Oat is what we recommend because it keeps the body creamy without competing with the banana. Whole milk works fine. Skim will taste thin against the syrup and caramel.

What if I don't have cold brew concentrate?

Ten ounces of ready-to-drink cold brew from a pre-mixed keg or dispenser stands in for the 2 oz concentrate plus 8 oz water. Don't substitute hot-brewed coffee poured over ice. It's more acidic and it fights the banana instead of supporting it.

Products Featured In This Recipe

Grab everything you need to make this café quality drink at home.

Frothy Cold Brew Banana Coffee Syrup
Frothy Coffee Concentrate
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Frothy Coffee Concentrate$27.00

Our cold brew blend is built for cold extraction. Guatemalan and Ethiopian coffees give it a creamy body with refreshing brightness and notes of Bartlett pear, milk chocolate, and hazelnut. That milk chocolate note is what lets the caramel sauce sit naturally in the drink instead of tasting bolted on. Keep a bottle in the fridge for builds like this one.

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Banana Coffee Syrup

$8.00

We built this syrup around real banana flavor, the ripe kind rather than the artificial candy kind. It's what our baristas use daily across all eight Frothy Monkey cafes. Here it carries the whole drink, and the cinnamon and caramel do the work of turning plain banana into bananas foster.

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