How to Make Homemade Coffee Creamer: 6 Recipes
Whether you are a multiple-cups-a-day coffee lover OR a one-cup-a-week coffee drinker, this post has a homemade coffee creamer recipe perfect for you!
Why Should You Make Your Own Homemade Coffee Creamer?
1. Eco-Friendly
It can be difficult to find coffee creamer in sustainable packaging. Sure, you can recycle the plastic bottles, but that plastic will still end up in the earth somewhere someday. You can also purchase creamer in cardboard containers, but that cardboard has a plastic liner so it isn’t completely biodegradable/compostable either. When you make your own coffee creamer, you can avoid this packaging for the most part…especially if you are making your own ingredients as well.
2. Delicious & Customizable
Homemade coffee creamer is so tasty! You can make it as sweet (or unsweet) as you want. You control all of the ingredients so you can tailor it specifically to your taste preference.
3. Affordable
Making your own coffee creamer can also save you a bit on your grocery bill over time.
4. Healthier
These recipes are free from refined sugar and other less-than-healthy ingredients that you will find in store bought creamers.
Homemade Coffee Creamer 2 Ways
There are two different ways that I like to make my coffee creamer. If I want to have creamer ready to pour straight from the fridge in the mornings, then I use recipe #1. This recipe requires cooking, but it makes a larger amount that will last throughout the week.
If I want to make my creamer on a cup-by-cup basis, then I use recipe #2. This recipe requires no cooking, but it is best when made fresh each morning.
Homemade Coffee Creamer Ingredients
#1 Coffee Creamer
- 1 3/4 cup whole milk
- 14 oz homemade sweetened condensed milk (check out this homemade recipe)
- flavoring of choice
1. Mix milk and sweetened condensed milk together in a sauce pan. 2. Cook for 5-7 minutes until it is thickened and bubbly.
3. Add flavorings.
4. Cool and store in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
OR
#2 No-Cook Instant Homemade Coffee Creamer
- 1 cup almond milk (or whole milk)
- 2 TBSP Maple syrup or honey (see these sweetener alternatives)
- Flavoring of choice
- Mix maple syrup or honey into the milk.
- Add in your flavorings and stir.
- If you like your creamer frothed, you can simply add all ingredients into your milk frother (or shaking jar) and froth everything together.
FLAVORINGS:
Hazelnut= 2 tsp hazelnut extract
Caramel= 2-3 TBSP caramel sauce
Milk & Honey= 1/4 cup honey + 1/2 tsp vanilla extract French Vanilla= 1 TBSP vanilla extract
Mocha= 3 TBSP Chocolate Syrup
Amaretto= 1 tsp almond extract + 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Coconut= 1 tsp coconut extract + 1 tsp vanilla extract
Homemade Coffee Creamer
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup whole milk
- 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- flavoring of choice {see below}
Hazelnut Flavoring
- 2 tsp hazelnut extract
Caramel Flavoring
- 2-3 TBSP caramel sauce
Milk & Honey Flavoring
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
French Vanilla Flavoring
- 1 TBSP vanilla extract
Mocha Flavoring
- 3 TBSP Chocolate Syrup
Amaretto Flavoring
- 1 tsp almond extract + 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Coconut Flavoring
- 1 tsp coconut extract
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Mix milk & sweetened condensed milk together in a sauce pan.
- Cook for 5-7 minutes until it is thickened & bubbly.
- Add flavorings.
- Cool and store in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
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Amaretto flavoring sounds so good! Thanks for sharing these recipes. I’m a coffee lover so I’ll be giving a few of these a try.
Great post! I loved the different variations of homemade coffee creamer you shared. It’s amazing how simple ingredients can come together to make such delicious and customizable creamer. I’ll definitely be trying out a few of these recipes. Thanks for sharing!