Seattle’s Best provided product for review for this post.

Waaaaay back at the beginning of the month, after I told you about the Nice & Icy Creamy Caramel Toffee-Coffee Supreme, my friend Brook told me I should try her method of making iced coffee. Little did she know that Seattle’s Best had also sent me some of their coffee and instructions for making iced-coffee concentrate! And so I did indeed try Brook’s iced coffee!

First I brewed up some concentrate.

Like this:

The Seattle’s Best instructions say to add 1 part coffee to 3 parts water over ice, but I found that to be pretty strong. And also who needs water when you can follow Brook’s instructions, which go like this:

The first thing you need to know is to always used sweetened condensed milk. Always. The second thing you need to know is that mixing caramel sauce with sweetened condensed milk and half and half makes amazing coffee creamer and mixes better into the iced coffee. … The third thing you need to know is that Sonic has amazing ice that they will sell to you by the bagful and which you will never regret purchasing for this purpose.

I did not use Sonic ice (even though I drive past Sonic twice a day, at least) and I used fat-free condensed milk and 2% milk instead of full-fat and half-and-half because I’m watching my girlish figure. And I may have accidentally poured in far too much of the sweetened condensed milk, because my corneas have been vibrating for the last 27 minutes.

I know a fair number of you are veteran coffee drinkers, so you’d probably be more adept at making your iced-coffee concoctions and not leave yourself with a sugar/caffeine buzz strong enough to power a small automobile. So how about you leave a comment on this post, and at noon on Wednesday, July 24th, the ol’ randomizer will choose a name to send a “Hot Iced” gift set to, courtesy of Seattle’s Best. What’s in it? Lots of stuff! Stuff like:

And so to recap: Too much sugar makes me twitchy, and you could win your own Adri won a Seattle’s Best kit! Yeah! I’ll be running laps around the basement if anybody needs me.