This easy Homemade Coffee Creamer is made with three ingredients and it comes together in minutes! You’ll love adding this sweet and creamy addition to hot or iced coffee.
Yep, we’re making coffee creamer – and it couldn’t be easier! Three ingredients and one simple step and you’ll have a sweet and creamy addition to your cup of coffee.
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How To Make Homemade Coffee Creamer
For this vanilla-flavored coffee creamer simply combine the following ingredients:
- One cup half-and-half (or half and half substitute)
- Two tablespoons pure maple syrup
- Splash vanilla extract
Put the ingredients in a mason jar or large cup and give it a shake or stir. Taste it and adjust the ingredients to suit your taste. It should taste like melted vanilla ice cream (yum, right?). More syrup will make it sweeter and more half-and-half will make it less sweet.
Healthy Homemade Coffee Creamer
If you’ve ever looked at the ingredients list on a typical flavored coffee creamer it is scary. Oils, refined sugars, stabilizers, and all kinds of questionable ingredients. This creamer is made with real ingredients and it’s much more healthy than store bought creamers. You can add a generous splash to your coffee with zero guilt.
Flavor Variations and Ingredient Substitutions
- Feel free to play around with the flavorings. You can swap the vanilla extract for another extract of your choosing (maple and almond are both delicious). Start with a small amount of extract, taste it, and add more until you get the flavor you like. If you’d prefer to skip adding the flavoring you can just mix the half-and-half and syrup.
- The half-and-half can be swapped for any type of milk. I really like the richness of half-and-half, but if you’d like a lower fat/calorie alternative you can use milk or nut milk.
- You can swap the maple syrup for another liquid sweetener. If you’d prefer to use sugar, you will need to dissolve the sugar in an equal amount of boiling water (creating a simple syrup).
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Recipe
Homemade Coffee Creamer
Ingredients
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients, shaking or stirring until well combined (I use a mason jar). Taste and adjust ingredients, if necessary. Store tightly covered in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
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Paulette Williams
Trying this today!
Celebrating Sweets
Fantastic! Enjoy!
Jessica Formicola
After making this homemade coffee creamer, I’ll never use the store bought stuff again! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Linda
I love having my afternoon coffee with a flavored creamer. This sounds so easy I wonder why I didn’t know about it beforehand. I can see trying it with the addition of pumpkin or apple pie spice too.
Kim k
I didn’t feel like running to the grocery store for creamer this morning. I looked up diy recipes but many of them called for sweetened condensed milk which I almost never buy. This recipe is perfect! Thank you!
Celebrating Sweets
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Abby
I tried this for my morning coffee because I didn’t have any creamer and it was amazing! I think I am just gonna keep making this instead of buying from the store. Some other recipes I’ve tried in the past have been gross, but this one was really good. It honestly did taste like melted vanilla ice cream.
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Sharon Garrett
I used almond milk 1/2 cup and 1/2 heavy cream. I did not have half and half. Used vanilla and maple syrup. Delicious and easy to make. Thanks
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Tina
So simple and soooooooooo delicious! I had to adjust the sweetness to my taste and yum!, no more store bought creamer. Thank you!
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Leiann Lynn Rose Spontaneo
Thank you so much for this recipe!
Allison
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Hannah
I usually use only half and half because I like dark coffee but today I was feeling something with a bit of flavor. This works perfect! Love it. Thank you so much 🙂
Allison
You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Mary
I have tried every kind of coffee creamer out there, and I cannot find one that is just right, that isn’t too sweet or too plastic tasting. I made this recipe this morning, OMG!! It is soooooo smooth and creamy!! Not too sweet, but just perfect! I tasted it before adding to my coffee, it seriously does taste like delicious, melted vanilla ice cream! Thank you for this perfect coffee creamer, no more store bought for me!!!
Allison
Yay! I love that! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂