Iced Sea Salt Coffee (Cold Brewed)

by Sabrina Snyder

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8 servings
Prep Time 1 day
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 1 day
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Cold Brewed Iced Sea Salt Coffee is a sweet, salty, creamy twist on a classic cold brew recipe. Easy, tasty drink for strong coffee drinkers.

Cold brewed Sea Salt Coffee is the most amazing cold brewed coffee drink you’ve probably never tried. This Iced Coffee is sweetened slightly with a whipped cream topping and flavor-enhanced with a sprinkle of sea salt.

Sabrina’s Iced Sea Salt Coffee

All mixed together and you’ll get the most deliciously complex (but EASY!) coffee drink you’ve never had, Iced Sea Salt Coffee. Coffee that is not bitter because it is cold brewed, slightly sweet with rich cream that is has a hint of sea salt to top it off. Yup, salty, sweet, rich, creamy coffee. It will blow your mind, or at least give you a new favorite way to enjoy your coffee.

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Iced Sea Salt Coffee (Cold Brewed) Recipe

Cold Brewed Iced Sea Salt Coffee is a sweet, salty, creamy twist on a classic cold brew recipe. Easy, tasty drink for strong coffee drinkers.
Yield 8 servings
Prep Time 1 day
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 1 day
Course Drink
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
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Ingredients
 

  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1 teaspoon flaked sea salt
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 8 cups cold water
  • 1 cup coarsely ground coffee
  • Thick Cloth Style Paper Towels* , see note

Instructions

  • Combine the cold water and coffee grounds in a large container.
  • Stir and let sit for 24 hours.
  • Take a couple of thick paper towels (* see note) and pour your coffee through the towel into a clean pitcher.
  • Add the sugar and whisk together until it is dissolved.
  • Put the coffee in the fridge until you are ready to make your drink.
  • Whip the heavy cream until it is thick and frothy, but not quite as thick as whipped cream.
  • Add sea salt to the cream.
  • Pour coffee over ice, leaving about 1 inch of room.
  • Scoop about ¼ cup of the salted cream on top of the coffee, stir and enjoy.
  • I like to add a little sprinkle of salt on top, but you can serve it as is.

Notes

I used Viva Vintage paper towels, but you can use any thick cloth style paper towels. Other options include:
  • Chinois cloth (folded if too porous)
  • Paper coffee filters
  • Regular paper towels (fold/layer to thicken)
You want the filter thick enough that it won’t rip but that the coffee mixture will pour through and not get absorbed.

Nutrition

Calories: 274kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 67mg | Sodium: 319mg | Potassium: 57mg | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 875IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 47mg | Iron: 0.1mg

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About this Recipe

Years ago our family made a move from Los Angeles to Sacramento. At first I thought it would just be a fun new adventure and I was only sad about leaving friends and family behind. Plus, I don’t know how familiar you are with either location’s real estate market, but you can buy about four times the house up there so that was a really nice silver lining! Then the homesickness kicked in. That’s when I came up with this hometown favorite coffee drink you can enjoy today!

Kitchen Tool Needed

  • Filter: I used nice, thick cloth-style paper towels. You don’t have to fold them into multiple layers and I had no issues with pilling or tearing. See more in the note below.
  • Large Container: You’ll use one container for mixing the ingredients and letting sit over night. You can use a pitcher or a large bowl. It just needs to be able to hold 10 cups of liquid with room for stirring.
  • Pitcher: A large pitcher will hold your filtered, finished iced coffee. Again it needs to be large enough to hold 10 cups of liquid with room to stir.

Choosing a Filter

The base of this drink is a classic cold brewed coffee which is where quality paper towels come into play. I make gallons of iced coffee all summer long and with the heat refusing to die down I’ve been drinking it well into the Fall season. Until recently I had been using my super expensive chinois to help make my iced coffee because it was too hot to make a trip for coffee filters. But with thicker, cloth like paper towels you don’t get pilling and they don’t disintegrate like regular paper towels. I used the Viva brand but any cloth style towels will do. You could also use paper coffee filters or if you use regular paper towels, make sure to fold them a few times. Whatever filter you use, you just want to keep in mind it should be able to handle the weight of the liquid and coffee grounds without ripping, while allowing the coffee to drip through without being soaked up by the paper or cloth.

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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Comments

  1. this sounds so good. how do you keep the whipped cream? in the fridge or freezer? where can I find flaked salt? thank you

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    1. It really doesn’t stay. You just need to use it up for this recipe. I added the link for the flaked salt in the recipe card. Just click on it and it’ll take you to it. 🙂 I hope you enjoy it!

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  4. I want these right now. It’s just noon-thirty here and I am already needing a pick me up.

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  5. Sea salt ice coffee sound different and look amazing …Viva paper towel is strong must ry. Thanks for sharing.

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  11. That iced coffee looks really refreshing, no wonder you love making it especially during the summer. And you really put that paper towel in to good use!

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    1. Yes! It was a huge help and made cleanup easier than getting coffee out of my chinois for half an hour 🙂

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  13. I’ve been using cheese cloth but that looks like a great way to filter the coffee. I adore cold brew coffee now. Love that its lower in acid too.

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    1. I used to as well! But with paper towels you get the super fine filmy leftovers out too that can pass through the cheesecloth! 🙂

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  15. I’ve never tried the process of cold brewing my coffee. This looks delicious. I’ve got to try this.

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    1. I did it for the first time for a party for a client many years ago and now I have it in my fridge unless it is in the dead of winter. Even then I still may, haha. It is just too easy to make!

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  16. I had no idea that putting a wet paper towel under a cutting board would keep it from moving! That is so cool!

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  17. Yummy!! I have been LOVING Cold Brew coffee lately. Its definitely a nice change from everyday “boring” coffee 🙂

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    1. I know right? I love cold brewed coffee, my issue is I drink it so much faster that I end up drinking a lot more of it!

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  19. What a nice drink combination for a cold coffee. Love the Viva paper towels are so durable to help assist in your get together like this.

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  22. These look really delicious! I also never use coffee filters, paper towels work so much better!

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    1. Yes! And actually I just rinsed it out and squeezed the water back out and used it for cleanup. Super easy!

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  23. Holy coffee ! I am craving this like crazy, i men I wish I could stick a straw in my screen and just sip. Wowza!

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  25. I don’t usually drink any kinds of coffee, but this looks really good. Those Viva paper towels are really nice too. I know they help clean up messes real nice.

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  26. This Cold brewed Sea Salt Coffee looks so delicious. I am definitely going to try making this on the weekend.

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  27. Viva towels are so strong. I have been using them for a few months now and i will never go back. I will have to try this recipe. It would be delicious in the morning.

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    1. Me too. I just need it in one of those helmets with the straws attached so I can hold the kids and keep drinking it!

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  31. I love iced coffee and this is exactly how I make it! It’s so much more convenient than buying coffee every day.

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    1. Me too! I actually use these towels and have for over a year before Viva sponsored this post. I love them 🙂

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  33. I’ve never heard of putting a wet paper towel under something to keep it still. Hubby loves iced coffee, I bet he’d enjoy this one.

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    1. I hope you try it! I learned the paper towel under the cutting board trick from a thanksgiving episode on Food Network about how to carve the turkey while keeping the board still. I love it! And then I use it to clean up any messes after I am done.

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  39. Sabrina, this looks so delicious! I love anything with sea salt, it gives everything a brand new flavor profile! I can’t wait to try this soon!

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  40. Oh yes, please I need some of that iced sea salt coffee cold brewed energizer. I’m so into coffee, I have several types of coffee machines/sepresso/capresso/ machines. I will definitely try this and from the look of it, I need to try it soon.

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    1. Please come back and let me know what you think! Would love to know how another fellow coffee lover feels about it!

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  42. Iced coffee is a favorite thing of mine that I take seriously. I love cold brews, and pour over coffees so much because they have such a different flavor verses regular brew or syrups.

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  43. My husband would love this and so would any of my coffee loving friends! I’m more of a tea gal but this sounds great!

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  45. I have never been a coffee drinker because of the bitterness but I hear that salt takes that away. This creamy drink just might be the one that turns me officially!!

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  48. I am the biggest coffee fan there is. I am definitely picking up the stuff to make this today! Yum.

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  49. This iced sea salt coffee looks to be the perfect autumn drink! I am definitely trying this recipe out! Thanks for sharing!

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