Coffee Creamer

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In the Beginning

I never used to drink coffee. The taste of coffee turned my stomach, and I don’t like the smell of it.

About a year ago, I tried a sip of coffee with some flavored coffee creamer in it and I discovered that I like coffee…so long as it doesn’t taste or smell like coffee, and so long as it’s ice-cold (not even slightly warm).

Sugar Oil

I was buying a flavored coffee creamer that did a good job of masking the flavor. It was really good until I looked at the ingredient list. It’s pretty much just sugar, oil, and flavoring. Ugg! Since I was already hooked on drinking coffee, I had to come up with an alternative to the sugar oil I was drinking every morning.

A New Recipe

I started playing around with some ingredients and I came up with a really good homemade coffee creamer. The creamer was made from sweetened condensed milk, heavy whipping cream, a pinch of salt, and vanilla extract. It was amazing! It tasted exactly like melted vanilla ice cream! Every cardiologist across the world had to be cringing whenever I took a drink of my morning coffee with the creamer in it.

A (Slightly) Healthier Recipe

So, I decided to make a (slightly) healthier version of the creamer. My new recipe is still loaded with sugar, but it doesn’t have heavy whipping cream in it (see, I’m trying to compromise). I love it because it masks the coffee flavor of the, well…coffee, just like the first recipe did. And it gives the coffee a coconutty flavor. It’s really good!

I use sweetened vanilla almond milk and Better Half for the new recipe. The Better Half is similar to dairy half and half, except that it is half coconut cream and half almond milk. You can find the almond milk in the milk section of the grocery store. The Better Half is usually by the heavy whipping cream.

I like to mix the creamer in a bowl and then transfer it to a bottle that store-bought creamer comes in. It’s the perfect size to hold the homemade creamer and it’s easy to pour.

The creamer needs to be stored in the refrigerator and will last until the expiration date of the milk.

Let me know what you think about the coffee creamer!

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Coffee Creamer #1

This is a thicky and creamy coffee creamer that tastes like melted vanilla ice cream.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Ingredients

  

• 1 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 cups milk

Instructions

 

• In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients until the sweetened condensed milk is completely incorporated.
• Transfer the mixture into a clean container.
• Store in the refrigerator and give the bottle a good shake before using it each time.

Notes

Any type of milk will work. I’ve used whole and low-fat with good results. Using whole milk will make it creamer.

The creamer will stay good until the expiration date of the milk.

Keyword coffee, creamer, ice cream

Coffee Creamer #2

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Ingredients

  

• 1 14 oz. can of fat-free sweetened condensed milk
• 1 16.9 oz. container of Better Half
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/4 cup sweetened vanilla almond milk

Instructions

 

• In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients until the sweetened condensed milk is completely incorporated.
• Transfer the mixture into a clean container.
• Store in the refrigerator and give the bottle a good shake before using it each time.

Notes

The creamer will stay good until the expiration date of the milk.

Keyword coffee, creamer