I was doing my routine weekend morning grocery shopping when I bumped into this lil cutie…
Have you seen these in the store yet? Now I really do enjoy some coffee with my creamer so obviously, this caught my attention. As I reached for it, I again had a “skeptic” moment and compared it to the regular kind of coffee mate…
If you haven’t checked out the ingredients on normal creamer, I wouldn’t suggest it. Well, I would but I wouldn’t. If you know what I mean.
No, you don’t know what I mean? Oh, okay, let me explain…
Normal creamers = abnormal amount of ridiculously unnecessary ingredients.
That’s what I mean.
So I was coming into the light of natural creamers when it hit me: I could make this myself for half the cost! Seriously, the ingredients in these things are as follows (taken from the website): nonfat milk, heavy cream, sugar, and natural flavors.
Sounds easy enough right? Right!
So here’s what I did…. Combine:
1/2 cup nonfat milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tbsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp sugar
I kept it in a mason jar in my fridge for a couple of weeks and used it sparingly (cough, cough… not) in my coffee.
Now, obviously, this is for the vanilla flavored coffee creamer. I have decided to expand this section of my knowledge and will soon be experimenting with a peppermint mocha home creamer… more to come.
I know how many coffee-junkies there are in the world so I hope you try this. Oh and if you don’t like it, it wasn’t me who suggested it. I think it was Martha Stewart or something….
Happy it’s almost Friday to you!
I will definitely have to try this!!
Good! Let me know what you think
–K
I would love to try this with almond milk….. And PLEASE let me know how your Peppermint Mocha is coming as that is my FAVE ‘Mate!
Oooh… Almond milk… I’ve never thought of that. Keep me posted on how it turns out. I’m saving Peppermint Mocha for post-Thanksgiving…. I have to restrain myself or else I’ll go crazy with it
Almost done with my International Delight… and then we’re making a batch of this!! Will post results
I’ll look forward to hearing how it went!
Sooo glad we did this! The creamer tastes “cleaner” than ID or Coffeemate. It’s so easy to sweeten and flavour cream to your liking, I dunno why it took so long for me to try it. We used brown sugar for sweetener and 10% cream instead of skim milk and heavy fat mixed..kinda made more sense to save money on a bigger container of 10% instead of buying 2 smaller sizes. We’re gonna try maple syrup as a sweetener next time
I’m sure it will make all the difference!
I’m so glad you liked it Dave! I think it’s definitely better than the store bought!!