6 easy instant coffee recipes to make at home if you loved dalgona

It may sound like a weird combination of taste and texture, but coffee jelly is a revelation.

Korean American blogger and home cook Lis Lam shared her coffee jelly recipe on her blog, The Subversive Table. The recipe uses another long-life ingredient reminiscent of the 1950s: condensed milk, mixed with fresh milk poured over the jelly before serving. Could it get more retro?

This bittersweet jelly can be made in advance, and then topped with sweetened milk and extra coffee when you're ready to serve. Lam serves this to friends and family as a fun take on after-dinner coffee, but who's to say you couldn't have it for breakfast?

A scarcity of fresh milk before and during the Vietnamese war led to the creation of egg coffee, or ca phe trung, a recipe which has remained a Vietnamese favourite ever since. Again, the mental image of egg and coffee might not be everyone's cup of tea — but bear with us. It's really more of a caffeinated dessert, a sweet and creamy custard served with a spoon, and is found in cafés and at food vendors across Hanoi.

Like dalgona, you'll need an electric whisk or a decent amount of elbow grease, as the egg and condensed milk need to be whipped up until they're light and fluffy. This classic recipe from Amalida's Ethnic Spoon comes straight from Hanoi's Ghiang Café, where egg coffee was supposedly created in 1946. The cafe still stands today, if you're ever in the area.

Phil Torre, author of Italian Chef, finds this coffee granita recipe even more refreshing than ean iced coffee on a hot day.

"In Sicily they have granita for breakfast, but this recipe makes for an awesome dessert too," he writes. "It's a really great combination, with the sweet cream balancing out the intense coffee flavor."

Granita is essentially shaved ice, so unlike with ice cream making, you don't need to worry about ice crystals forming as it's freezing. Taste the mixture before freezing it — it should be very sweet and strong, but not unpleasantly bitter.

These cute little biscuits are so photo-friendly you might do a double take to check if they're real. Made with instant coffee powder, this recipe from Vancouver Pigout is a winner when you're low on baking ingredients, as they don't need any raising agent.

The bitesize cookies aren't overly sweet, either, and they're great paired with your afternoon coffee for a double caffeine hit.

Let's be honest, the first thought on a lot of our minds (well, at least mine) when we first saw dalgona coffees was: "How can we make this alcoholic?"

There are a myriad of White Russian and Espresso Martini recipes out there for those who love to combine coffee and booze, but none are quite so decadent as this Whipped Coffee White Russian recipe from Half Baked Harvest.

With a hint of vanilla and a splash of Kahlua, topped generously with that whipped dalgona, it takes the classic brunch drink to a new level.

Last but not least, sweet treat superstar and recipe book writer Izy Hossack shares her answer to instant coffee: this winning tiramisu swiss roll cake from Top With Cinnamon. A hybrid of tiramisu, possibly the greatest dessert ever invented, and a festive yule log (or Bûche de Noël), Izy is really onto something here.

"They're perfect partners because tiramisu is half made up of sponge fingers, which are very similar to the vanilla genoise used in a yule log," she told Insider. "It's also one of those things you can make entirely the night before and leave in the fridge until needed. In fact, it gets better if you let it sit for a while as the cake gets more and more infused by that boozy mascarpone filling." Sounds good to us!

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