Homemade Coffee Creamer

I will admit that the first thing I think about when I get out of bed every morning is how long until the coffee is ready. I told you before about how I let it perk while I am in the shower so the time without coffee is minimized. When I was in graduate school I drank Folgers classic, which was pretty good and also cheap. But my favorite coffee brand is Community Coffee, this is a Louisiana tradition and I love it. I prefer the Cafe Special (yellow label) but I have had the blue one as well it is slightly more robust.

At the end of graduate school my mom would mail me coffee and it always seemed to come right when the other one would run out... thanks mom. But as I am realizing that I am no longer a starving student so I can splurge on somethings and coffee is one of those things. As I am picky about my brand of coffee I am also pretty particular about the creamer, it is CoffeeMate or nothing (and by nothing I mean milk and lots of sugar).

A few weeks ago I came across this pin on how to make your own creamer for coffee. I have fallen in love with two creamers as of late: Cinnamon Vanilla Creame and Peppermint Mocha. So I was pretty excited about finding a recipe for creamer that had both of the varieties that I like. So I grabbed a can of  sweetened condensed milk on my next trip to the grocery store and then I was ready. I did chicken out of making this for several days (maybe even a week) I was afraid it would be gross.

Cinnamon Vanilla Creamer, homemade

I finally decided to get it together and make the cinnamon vanilla cream version. So, I followed the part of the directions where you heat the milk and dissolve the cinnamon in the milk on the stove. This part went OK until it started to smell a little burnt so I pulled it off the stove to cool. I eventually mixed everything together but left out any of the cinnamon that didn't dissolve and stuck to the funnel or the pan. At this point it looks a little more like cinnamon milk or just milk with black chunks (think Oreo milk).

Chunky-Monkies on the bottom... ew

I pop it into the fridge until the next morning where I am a little anxious as this is the best part of my morning and what if it ruins my coffee. So I shake the creamer to get it all back into a homogenous solution (wow am I a chemist or what). I then get my coffee and head back to my room so that I can do my hair.

Right before the first sip

My first sip isn't too bad but it isn't very sweet. As I keep drinking it the burnt smell became all I could taste and there were some serious nasties in the bottom of my cup. I did finish the majority of the cup that I poured but I used CoffeeMate for the rest of the coffee. I am not saying that this is terrible but I am going to tell you that I didn't drink it again nor will I ever make it again. It is possible that a different flavor might be better and if you try it let me know.