All-Natural Vanilla Coffee Creamer

July 15, 2024

Jump to Recipe Pin Recipe All-Natural Homemade Vanilla Coffee Creamer ~ 4 ingredients and 5 minutes for preservative-free creamer | FiveHeartHome.com via @fivehearthome

All-Natural Homemade Vanilla Coffee Creamer ~ 4 ingredients and 5 minutes for preservative-free creamer | FiveHeartHome.com via @fivehearthome

The convenience of refrigerated coffee creamer (sans the additives and preservatives of store bought) can be yours with this 4-ingredient, 5-minute, natural Vanilla Coffee Creamer, flavored with vanilla extract and sweetened with maple syrup!

If you enjoy delicious, all-natural coffee treats, you'll also love Caramel Coffee Creamer!

Who out there enjoys a cup (or five) of coffee in the morning? {*Raises hand.*} Growing up, my parents always drank their coffee black. I didn't understand it then and I can't tolerate it now. My hubby drinks his with a splash of milk but no sugar, which honestly, I don't find much better. Me? I need plenty of cream/milk, sweetener, and ideally some sort of flavoring.

But several years back when I started paying attention to food labels and incorporating more "real foods" into my family's diet, I was appalled at the ingredients found in my favorite flavored coffee creamers. How could something so tasty incorporate so many unpronounceable additives?

Alas, in the years since that revelation, I've been forgoing all of the fun, flavored coffee creamers and making due with milk and sugar, and sometimes a splash of flavored coffee syrup (which isn't ideal either with its preservatives and occasional food coloring, but at least it contains less junk than the store bought creamers). Recently, however, I've been on a make-my-own kitchen staples kick, and it occurred to me that surely it wouldn't be too hard to whip up my very own batch of flavored coffee creamer to store in the refrigerator and enjoy all week long.

Ingredients

Sure enough, it was beyond easy. In a matter if minutes I had rich, delicious coffee creamer, made with real milk and cream, flavored with my most beloved brand of vanilla extract, and sweetened with pure maple syrup (instead of the sweetened condensed milk found in some versions of homemade coffee creamer).

You might be wondering if the resulting coffee tastes maple-y and the answer is no. I know that I'd be better off learning to drink my coffee unsweetened altogether, but if I'm going to ingest breakfast-time sugar on a daily basis, at least maple syrup is natural and unrefined.

If you've followed this blog for awhile, you've probably noticed that I use maple syrup to sweeten recipes quite regularly. I get a great deal on big jugs of pure maple syrup ordered from Amazon (Coomb's Family Farms 100% Pure Organic Grade B Maple Syrup is my favorite, just in case you're wondering), and you'd better believe I put those jugs to good use.

Tweaking to Your Liking

I'm very pleased with this recipe as a starting point, but know that you can easily adjust the richness of your creamer by tweaking the ratio of milk to heavy cream, and you can make it more or less sweet by fine-tuning the maple syrup to your liking.

But the very best part of this coffee creamer? For at least the next few days (or until the novelty wears off), this chronically sleep-deprived mama is actually looking forward to waking up...just so I can enjoy another mug of creamy, vanilla-laced coffee, thanks to this quick and easy recipe. 😉

More Make-Your-Own Kitchen Staples

All-Natural Homemade Vanilla Coffee Creamer

The convenience of refrigerated coffee creamer (without the additives and preservatives of store bought) can be yours with this four-ingredient, five-minute, all-natural creamer, flavored with pure vanilla extract and sweetened with real maple syrup. By Samantha Skaggs Course: DrinksCuisine: American Prep Time: 5 Cook Time: 10 Total Time: 15 Servings: servings Calories: 125kcal Print Pin Rate

Ingredients

1 ¼ cup heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
⅓ cup pure maple syrup
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

Combine cream, milk, and maple syrup in a small pot set over medium heat. Stir together until bubbles start forming around the edges of the pot and mixture is very warm. Remove pot from heat and blend in vanilla. Allow to cool at room temperature for about 30 minutes before transferring to a jar or bottle and storing in the refrigerator for 7 to 10 days.

Notes

Feel free to adjust the milk-to-cream ratio if you prefer your creamer lighter or richer, and you may also tweak the amount of maple syrup depending on how sweet you like your coffee.
If you are bothered by the skin that forms on top of the creamer while it sits at room temperature, you may strain the creamer through a fine mesh sieve before storing.

Nutrition

Slightly adapted from Deliciously Organic

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