I am very much a black coffee person, that said, once in a while I wouldn’t mind flavor of some sort in my coffee, I see these people with there French Vanilla, or cinnamon coffee creamer and I will admit I get a bit jealous.
I am working on getting in shape, other than round, and on a budget, so I have been toying with the idea of trying a protein powder or something similar as creamer.
I was hoping I could get some alternative ideas for coffee creamer here. I am looking for low calorie, and ideally something with protein. Does anyone have an idea?
Look at the ingredients of a decent coffee creamer you’ll notice that it says milk and heavy cream.
So in essence coffee creamer is really just half and half. There are cheaper coffee creamers that will have some sort of plant based oil instead of heavy cream. They might not even contain any milk.
To make your own cinnamon creamer you just need half and half, ground cinnamon and some sugar.
To make a mocha creamer you need half and half, cocoa powered and sugar.
To make vanilla creamer, it’s vanilla extract, half an half and sugar.
To make a chai creamer, it’s half and half, ground cardamom, ground allspice, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, ground ginger and sugar.
To make pumpkin spice it’s half and half, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground nutmeg, ground allspice, ground cloves and sugar.
Caramel creamer is just half and half and caramel. Since caramel is mostly sugar you probably don’t need to add any.
If you find other flavorings you can find real extracts or the actual spices instead of preprocessed creamers.
A teaspoon of brown sugar is less than 20 calories. Milk and cream both have a little protein.
All of that, I want all of that and there is plenty there for some experiments, thanks, sometimes my brain goes into black and white mode and I forget to think of parts instead of whole.
I think it’s like that for a lot of people. I never really thought about all of the parts until I started getting into cooking.
When you realize what things are, it’s like finally waking up.