I know a lot of ladies are used to having their coffee or tea with flavored creamer and giving it up was a hard thing to do for a Trim Healthy Mama… BUT you don’t have to give it up!! In fact, it’s so super easy to make your own!!! Not only is it easy but the ingredients are simple, without all the junk we don’t need in it!!
Homemade just tastes so much better anyway! This is something I have learned, especially while doing Trim Healthy Mama, homemade is the way to go! You don’t have to make things from scratch but most of the time it’s not much more effort put forth to make it at home!
For this homemade creamer you have basically have three or four ingredients. How simple is that! Make sure you are using good quality flavorings! Here is an affiliate link to a great vanilla:Rodelle Pure Vanilla Extract, 8-Ounce
There are so many wonderful options to play with… chocolate peppermint, salted caramel, white chocolate, vanilla hazelnut, coconut, etc etc. Try it out! Also, go check out this store.. (I’m not an affiliate with them but I have, use and love their flavors! Bakto Flavors or you can try a six sample set from my affiliate link at Amazon:Bakto Flavors – Natural Flavors & Extracts – PICK YOUR OWN FLAVORS – Box of 6
Also, a friend of mine (Michele Miller) reminded me, that if you are an essential oil user (Good Quality that is digestible only) and feel comfortable using it in your creamer, you can add a drop or two of essential oil to great awesome flavor that way.
And just store in a glass jar or container, keep in the fridge, and it should last at least a week or two or however long it takes to drink it up!! Note** this is figured for 8 servings… so 2 tbps of either heavy whip (for an S) or half & half (for an E) will fit into your Trim Healthy Mama plan! You can do this with coconut milk or almond milk as well if you have a dairy allergy. Really the options are endless!!
Now tell me… do you take your tea or your coffee with cream?
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Homemade Flavored Creamer
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
An easy homemade flavored creamer with out all the extra ingredients you don’t need! Perfect for a THMer!
Ingredients
- 1 cup of heavy whipping cream or half & half (2 tbsp. should be a serving size)
- 2 tsp vanilla (go for a good quality vanilla! I love Danncy Mexican Vanilla)
- 1 to 2 tsp of your favorite extract or flavoring (I used peppermint but the options are endless)
- a pinch of salt
- Optional- you can add your sweetener directly to the creamer or you can add it to your coffee. This should make roughly 8 servings so you could figure out home much sweetener you would need for that. A lot depends on taste and type of sweetener you like best. If you do use a sweetener that is more granual, grind it up to a fine powder and then mix it with your creamer.
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together well and add to a glass jar.
- Store in the fridge.
Notes
- Optional- you can add your sweetener directly to the creamer or you can add it to your coffee. This should make roughly 8 servings so you could figure out home much sweetener you would need for that. A lot depends on taste and type of sweetener you like best. If you do use a sweetener that is more granual, grind it up to a fine powder and then mix it with your creamer.
I love cream in my coffee and in my tea… I think that’s one of my biggest battles… limiting how many cups I can have 🙂
Hahah … I understand this!!
How would you make French vanilla coffee dreamer?
I would add extra vanilla… a good quality!! 🙂
My Bakto 6 pack is on the way! 🙂 Can’t wait to start this, I ordered Almond -Cherry – Chocolate – Hazelnut -Raspberry – Vanilla !!
Yay exciting!!! I was so excited to get my pack from them!
This sounds great as an alternative to plain cream. Can you also tell me anything about that darling narrow glass container that the cream is in, is it something you purchased or vintage?
hmmm, I believe I found that at ROSS! I love that store!!
Do you have a recipe for making a THM “powdered” creamer for coffee? My husband needs it for work. He has to keep it in his desk drawer. Thanks.
hmm, I don’t but now I want to try and make one! Thanks for the inspiration to create one!!
You could try confection Swerve.
Can you tell me how I would make this with coconut milk? I have 4 cans that I bought to make creamer with…and I’ve lost the recipe! Thanks!
I would put the cans into a glass container. Then add the flavoring that you want and if you want to add sweetener. I would treat it just like the creamer in my recipe! That should work! 🙂
If I used Almond Milk, that would make it a FP, right?
Yes, ma’am!
Awesome!!! Thanks!!! I am fairly new to this, so I am double checking everything. 🙂
Love, this recipe, I use it all the time. But, if you think you’re going to make a larger batch of this. . . once you add the flavoring to the half and half, it doesn’t last more than a week. I found this out the hard way when I ended up with cottage cheese!! Don’t be like me. . . make it in small batches 🙂
Ah, good to know!! Thank you!! 🙂
I am a coffee drinker, an all day kinda coffee drinking gal :). I’m learning how to limit myself to just a few cups in the morning. I use half & half as my creamer but that only allows me to have an S breakfast. I’ve tried using Almond Milk but I just can’t stand that in my coffee. Would the taste be masked with the flavorings to make it an FP or E for my E breakfasts? Or do you have a good tasting creamer that’s an E? Thank you. 🙂
You can use 2 tbsp. of half and half in an E meals and be fine!! When I found that out I was sooooo happy!! I love cream in my coffee!
Thank you! 🙂 I love my coffee!
I made this for the first time today and the actual creamer was delicious. I added caramel extract. But even with the sweetner, once it was in my coffee, it didn’t taste very sweet. I used to use flavored creamer all the time…so maybe that’s why. I just miss my coffee with a creamy sweet flavored creamer.
If you are used to it being sweet definitely add as much sweetener as you need personally! I also add more because I like mine sweet!!
Rachel..I use caramel as well and also missed my sweet creamer so I now add a bit of English toffee stevia drops to my jar of creamer…yummy!
That sounds perfect!
So many t doesn’t have to be low fat 1/2 & 1/2 for an E? Or is that only for a FP?
Nope you can use the full Half and Half no fat free. Two tbsp. is like 3 grams of fat so that fits in both E & FP! 🙂
What sre the various types of sweetners you can use.
I use the THM Gentle Sweet with is a mixture of Stevia, Xylitol and Erythitol. Those are the sweeteners that are mostly used on the Trim Healthy Mama Plan.
My husband basically has to have hazelnut creamer in his coffee, been looking for a way to make it THM style – thanks for the recipe!
I’d love to know where you got your adorable glass bottle too. 🙂
I THINK I got it at Target a while back! It’s so cute! Another place to try would be my most favorite store ever… World Market!
Hi, I am just now seeing this recipe for creamer on your blog. I always used Irish Cream creamer in my coffee. It was sweet enough that I didn’t need to add sugar. I have since started using heavy whipping cream and adding my sweetener, which is usually either trivia or pyrue. I am curious about the brand of the Nella you put in the recipe. Do you use Clear or Dark pure Danncy Mexican Vanilla? Thanks for letting me know.
I know you haven’t received an answer… I use the dark pure Mexican vanilla… Danny’s!!♡♡ INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!
YAY!!!
I am assuming this is an S ? So I would need to have my cup with a meal or consider it a snack, then wait 3 hrs. before eating/drinking anything else? I tend to sip my coffee throughout the day
Yes, exactly!
Fun! I’ve gotten use to plain half and half or just black but I do miss my caramel Macchiato creamer. I may try this tomorrow!
Thanks for this recipe. I am starting Keto with my husband and I needed a heavy cream coffee creamer recipe. For my extra extracts I plan to use this yummy coconut extract I just bought.
I am trying to eliminate sugars and sweeteners from my diet. This looks like a good recipe. All the others added maple syrup or used sweetened condensed milk which added sugar. Do you have nutritional facts on this?
No I don’t but it shouldn’t be anything but the “milk” depending on what milk you use. The sweetener/flavorings don’t have any carbs I believe or very very very little.