Top Tips for Making a Cortado iced Coffee

• Freshly grind your coffee beans just before you brew the espresso. This will ensure that your coffee is full of flavor.
• If you haven't got an espresso machine, simply use whatever coffee maker you have available. Check out my guide to how to make an espresso without a machine.
• When making a cortado with dairy milk, I prefer whole milk. This gives a creamier texture with a rich taste.
• My favorite dairy-free milk is oat milk. it foams as well as whole cow’s milk and has a slightly sweet and creamy oaty taste. But, there are so many non-dairy milks why not check out my list of best non-dairy milks?
• The ratio of espresso to milk is 1:1, and the coffee is served in a glass or cup – a double shot of espresso coffee (2 ounces) with 2 ounces of cold milk and a couple of ice cubes.
• Iced cortado coffee is often mistaken for iced latte or iced flat white, but those are quite different. Cortado is made with less milk than both Lattes and Flat whites. So, iced cortado tastes stronger and less sweet than flat white coffee and lattes.
• An iced Spanish Cortado has more in common with its first cousin the Italian iced macchiato – they both use 2 shots of strong espresso, but a cortado has much more milk than a macchiato.