Homemade Coffee Creamers are easy to make with just three base ingredients and several different flavoring ideas are included to choose from!
Any coffee lovers are sure to love this easy recipe to create your own Coffee Creamer and experiment with your favorite flavor additions. Add this delicious creamer to regular black coffee, Cafe Latté, or Cold Brew Coffee to brighten up your morning Drink.
Why You’ll Love These Coffee Creamers?
- Easy to make creamer base made with just 3 simple ingredients.
- 7 different flavors ideas included for you to choose from!
Sabrina’s Homemade Coffee Creamers Recipe
Whether you’re a coffee purist using a fresh press or just want something delicious to add to your instant coffee, you can’t go wrong with Homemade Coffee Creamers. Making your own coffee creamer can give you peace of mind knowing exactly what you’re drinking. While some store-bought coffee creamers may be tasty, they tend to have a lot of preservatives, additives, and artificial flavors. Serve your sweet coffee with a slice of Coffee Cake for the perfect weekend morning treat.
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Ingredients
- 3 cans sweetened condensed milk , (14 ounces each)
- 3 cans evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Add the condensed milk, evaporated milk and powdered sugar together until smooth.
- Pour into three bowls.
French Vanilla Creamer:
- Add 1 tablespoon vanilla extract to the bowl, whisk well to combine and refrigerate.
Bailey’s Creamer:
- Add 2 tablespoons Baileys to the mixture, stir well and refrigerate.
Hazelnut Creamer:
- Add 1 tablespoon hazelnut extract, stir well and refrigerate.
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Chef’s Note
To create the thick, creamy consistency and sweet flavor you want for Homemade Coffee Creamer, this recipe calls for sweetened condensed milk. However, you could use whole milk or heavy cream instead. It just won’t be quite the same rich flavor. You can always add more sugar or flavoring to make up for the sweetness lost from the sweetened condensed milk.
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About this Recipe
By making the Homemade Coffee Creamer yourself, you can avoid any artificial ingredients. Use whole ingredients and feel confident in what’s going into your body. This recipe includes instructions for making Baileys, hazelnut, and vanilla coffee creamer. Creamers are also easy to customize and you can experiment with even more ingredients to get the right flavor combo for you. You can adjust the ingredients based on how sweet you like your creamer and make ingredient swaps for any dietary restrictions. There are some more ideas included in the Variations section below.
Ingredients
- Milk Ingredients: To make the perfect silky, creamy consistency, you’ll use a combination of sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. The simple ingredients have the perfect consistency to mimic your favorite coffee creamer. Both are condensed, thick versions of milk. But only one is sweetened; using the combination ensures your Homemade Coffee Creamer is sweet but not too sweet.
- Sweet: Speaking of sweet, this recipe also calls for ½ cup powdered sugar. You can easily adjust the amount of sweetener according to how sugary you like your coffee.
- Flavorings: To make the different creamer flavors, you can use vanilla extract, hazelnut extract, or Baileys. For the vanilla flavor, you could also swap out the extract for vanilla bean paste. With the boozy coffee, you can try different kinds of Baileys, such as salted Caramel, Almande, and Chocolate Baileys.
Can this be made ahead of time?
Yes, this recipe will last good in the fridge for up to a week. Just store it in an airtight container. It’s also perfect to make ahead of time if you prefer one flavor over the others, you can simply make a large batch of one. Multiply the amount of the flavoring by three to flavor the entire batch. You could leave some in the fridge and freeze some for later too.
How to Store
- Serve: After whisking the ingredients together, store the Homemade Coffee Creamers in the fridge to keep them chilled until you’re ready to serve. You shouldn’t leave creamer sitting at room temperature for more than 2 hours, or the dairy ingredients will go bad.
- Store: To keep the creamers fresh, cover the container in plastic wrap or pour the cream into mason jars or another airtight container to store in the fridge. The recipe can stay good in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- Freeze: For longer storage, you can actually freeze creamer. Pour the creamer into a freezer-safe airtight container, leaving some room at the top for it to expand. It can stay good frozen for up to 4 months. You can also divide the creamer into individual serving amounts to freeze it. That way, you can defrost a single serving at a time rather than the whole batch.
Ideas to Serve
Homemade Coffee Creamer recipes are also great to give as a gift for the coffee-addict friend in your life. You can make the creamer with their favorite flavor. Then pour the sweet cream into a mason jar, and add a bow and a tag for an adorable and personalized treat.
Frequent Questions
Coffee creamer is a typically store-bought ingredient that you can get in a liquid or powder form. It’s added to a cup of coffee in the same way you’d add milk or half and half to give it a creamy consistency, reduce the bitter flavor, and add sweetness. Unlike adding regular milk or heavy cream, coffee creamer has flavor additives like sugar, vanilla, or hazelnut already incorporated into the mixture to sweeten your coffee.
How much creamer you use is entirely up to your own taste. If you like coffee light and sweet, then you’ll add more, but if you prefer a stronger coffee flavor, you can only pour in a little bit of creamer. For reference, a single creamer pod only contains about .3 ounces of creamer, so it doesn’t take a lot to flavor your drink.
Yes. Store-bought creamer can range between $3-5 a bottle. While that may not sound like much, if you’re a big coffee drinker, it can add up fast, especially if you like a good amount of creamer in each coffee drink. Buying the ingredients is a bit more expensive at first, but you’ll get a much larger batch that you can store in the fridge or freezer.
Variations
- Vegan Coffee Creamer: To make creamer for a vegan diet, you’ll need to swap out the milk ingredients for non-dairy products. There are lots of dairy-free milk options. So, you can use your choice of milk, like almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, cashew milk, or soy milk. Then add your choice of vegan sweetener, such as coconut sugar or agave syrup. The non-dairy milk isn’t as creamy, so you can add tapioca starch to thicken the mixture. Or, for a creamier option, mix in full-fat coconut cream.
- Maple Syrup Creamer: You can make a variety of different flavored creamers with your favorite ingredients mixed into the base creamer recipe. To make a delicious maple Coffee Creamer recipe, combine the milk and sugar ingredients as usual. Add two tablespoons of pure maple syrup to flavor the mixture, or swap out the vanilla extract for maple extract. You can also add a dash of ground cinnamon to the ingredients for Maple Cinnamon Coffee Creamer.
- Chocolate Coffee Creamer: If you’re a fan of mochas, you can make a chocolate coffee creamer by adding 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup to your original creamer recipe. You can also mix in additional flavored syrups to make chocolate hazelnut coffee, chocolate candy cane coffee, or chocolate raspberry coffee.
- Pumpkin Spice Creamer: In the fall, you can make your very own pumpkin spice latte. Add 2 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice and ¼ cup of Pumpkin Puree to the coffee creamer. Stir vigorously to combine. For an extra rich and comforting pumpkin spice flavor, swap the powdered sugar for brown sugar.
- More Flavorings: There’s really no end to the flavors that you could add to your creamer. Have fun adding your favorite coffee flavors with a couple of teaspoons of almond extract, peppermint extract, lavender, raspberry syrup, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and many more delicious options.
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