Regional
Eiskaffee
German iced coffee with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream.
Where it came from
Germany
20th century
Eiskaffee is Germany’s summer café dessert: chilled coffee poured around vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. It grew from European ice-cream parlour culture.
Make it at home
Starting recipe
You'll need
- Brewed coffee
- 120 g
- Vanilla ice cream
- 1–2 scoops
- Milk foam
- whipped cream
- 01
Build
Pour chilled coffee over vanilla ice cream and top with whipped cream.
- 02
Serve
Serve immediately and adjust sweetness or dilution to taste.
At a café
Recipes and café sizes vary. Use this as the clearest starting point, then make it yours.