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Homemade French Vanilla Creamer

May 10, 2011 by Alea Milham 27 Comments

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If you want to know why we drink lots of coffee with French Vanilla Creamer, keep reading. If you are looking for my Homemade French Vanilla Coffee Creamer recipe, scroll to the bottom of this post.

A Quick and Easy French Vanilla Coffee Creamer Recipe that you can make at home. This is a frugal option to purchasing processed creamer. Just 3 ingredients!

Instead of telling you about Mother’s Day, I thought I would tell you about the day before Mother’s Day.

When raising our first batch of children my husband was very involved and often gave me a break so I could have “sanity time”. My children quickly established the connection between my need for sanity time and their behavior. One day after my two oldest children made a three story spider web with yarn from my knitting basket, they greeted my husband at the door and said, “Mom really needs sanity time tonight”.

Fast forward to our last child who was born 14 years later. My husband has a demanding job and often has to work on the weekends. When he is not working at either of his jobs, he is playing with the kids, helping with homework, maintaining our vehicles, or our property. The only “me time” he takes is to go to the gym and he usually does that at 5:30 in the morning when the rest of us are asleep. So I only leave him with my youngest child when I absolutely have to. Which is why my husband had never spent an entire day caring for our youngest child on his own until last Saturday.

I often refer to my youngest son  as my husband’s clone. He is intelligent, creative, and very energetic – wonderful qualities in a husband, exhausting qualities in a 4 year old. I occasionally call my husband and share stories from my day which he, from the comfort of his office, finds amusing. When I called and told him about my son writing math equations in permanent marker on the closet door, he laughed and asked if they were correct. I told him they were and my husband’s laughter brought me the relief I needed to get through the rest of the day.
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On Saturday, I set out to visit one of our horses who has been sent to a training farm for instruction. I only intended to be away for a few hours, but one thing led to another and I ended up being out for 7 hours. Here are the highlights from the day:

11:30 I called my husband and he told me Andrew was bouncing off the walls so he took him to the park.

12:30 I called my husband and heard Andrew screaming in the background. My husband said he was “never taking Andrew in public again”. I suggested Andrew’s mood would improve with food.

1:30 I called to let my husband know I was going to be delayed further. He said, “food is overrated all it did was give Andrew more energy and he is back to bouncing off the walls”.

2:30 I called my husband to check on him and he said, “I completely understand how a mother could get addicted to crystal meth. This is exhausting”.

3:30 My husband called me and said, “Don’t come home with out caffeine, lots of it”.

4:30 I walked in the door with a bag of coffee to a very grateful husband.

I didn’t realize until that moment how long it had been since my husband spent an entire day caring for a young child on his own. I feel really bad about taking pleasure from his pain, but his renewed appreciation for what I do every day was the best Mother’s Day present.

French Vanilla Coffee Creamer Recipe

A Quick and Easy French Vanilla Coffee Creamer Recipe that you can make at home. This is a frugal option to purchasing processed creamer. Just 3 ingredients!

My husband asks for his coffee “with maximum pollutants” which after I read the label on some of the store-bought creamers seemed like an appropriate description. In an effort to reduce the “pollutants” I created my own creamer recipe for my husband’s coffee.

Easy DIY French Vanilla Creamer Recipe using just 3 ingredients
Since I started making my own creamer, my husband stopped buying coffee at coffee houses which saves us quite a bit. My daughter adds this creamer to her Chai tea and both of my teenagers add some to their cocoa.

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Homemade French Vanilla Creamer
 
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Prep time
5 mins
Total time
5 mins
 
An easy and frugal alternative to store-bought French Vanilla Creamer
Author: Alea
Recipe type: French Vanilla Creamer
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 14 oz. can of condensed milk
  • 28 oz. milk
  • 1 T - 1½ T vanilla
Directions
  1. Pour the can of condensed milk into a pitcher.
  2. Fill the empty can two times with milk, adding the milk to the pitcher.
  3. Add vanilla to taste. Stir well.
Notes
Keep refrigerated.
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Here is another one of my coffee house recipes that I love: Homemade Chai Latte Recipe!

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About Alea Milham

Alea Milham is the owner of Premeditated Leftovers and the author of Prep-Ahead Meals from Scatch. She shares her tips for saving money and time while reducing waste in her home. Her favorite hobby, gardening, is a frugal source of organic produce for her recipes. She believes it is possible to live fully and eat well while spending less.

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  1. Melissa says

    May 20, 2022 at 11:02 pm

    Absolutely lovely coffee creamer. I did dilute it a bit with adding 3 cups of milk as it was too sweet for me but love it. Hubby thought I put alcohol in his coffee but it was the vanilla 😂

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  2. Rebecca McNeill says

    January 18, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    Wow! You are a life saver! Many thanks for sharing! Would you happen to have a recipe for the chocolate caramel creamer (Like Hershey’s).. Again, thank you.. and I loved reading your mother’s day blessing! It made me literally lol a few times!!

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  3. Nancy says

    August 19, 2018 at 6:29 am

    French Vanilla is my favorite cream. Made this this morning and. am now enjoying it. No more paying big bucks at the store.

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  4. Carmie says

    December 16, 2017 at 6:54 am

    Lifesaver Recipe for me!
    I buy an organic French vanilla creamer that is currently out of stock everywhere!
    No creamer = no coffee for me.

    I haven’t mixed this up yet but I’m pretty sure it’s going to do the job and maybe even become my regular daily creamer!

    Thanks!

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  5. Amy says

    May 20, 2016 at 9:42 am

    Any lactose free suggestion? Maybe rice milk?

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    • Alea Milham says

      May 20, 2016 at 9:52 am

      I prefer almond milk or cashew milk when making dairy-free creamer.

      Reply
  6. Marlee says

    June 4, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    Recipe sounds great! I’m wondering if evaporated milk could be used to cut out the sugar?

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    • Alea Milham says

      June 4, 2015 at 5:00 pm

      I don’t think you could substitute evaporated milk for condensed milk.

      Reply
  7. Rebecca says

    August 23, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    Thank you for posting this. I love french vanilla coffee creamer but hate spending $6 every two weeks when I have this in my cabinet. Also, I LOVE your Longaberger dishes.

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  8. shannon says

    June 21, 2013 at 6:45 am

    when it is made does it have a expiry date?

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    • Alea Milham says

      June 21, 2013 at 6:53 am

      I look at the expiration date on the jug of milk and use that as my guide.

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      • shannon says

        June 21, 2013 at 6:20 pm

        okay then mine has expired then. good know that i should use it within a week.

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  9. Christine says

    April 28, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    You are my answer from up above….. My husband lives on French vanilla. If he dosn’t have his creamer he will not have coffee and a man that drinks coffee everyday all day having no coffee is torcher… I would by him the Large coffee mat creamer that is $6 something a bottle and it’s gone in a day so im finding my self buying him another one. with in a month i must pend over 100 just on creamer alone. I tricked him and made your creamer and he couldn’t even tell the diffrents. So Thank you for this saves me money

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On Premeditated Leftovers I share simple recipes made with whole foods, practical shopping tips, time saving techniques, and meal planning strategies. I also share tips for minimizing food waste, so more of the food that is purchased ends up on the table.

While volunteering as a budget counselor, I realized that food is the element of most people’s budgets where they have the greatest control. I set out to develop low-cost recipes from scratch to prove it’s possible to create delicious meals on a limited budget. Eating well while spending less is about more than just creating recipes using inexpensive ingredients; it’s about creatively combining ingredients so you don’t feel deprived and are inspired to stick to your budget.

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