Vanilla Sweet Cream {Starbucks Copycat}
What's better than adding milk or cream to coffee? Vanilla Sweet Cream! This Starbucks copycat recipe shows you how to make your own delicious vanilla sweet cream at home. It's the perfect addition to both hot and iced coffee and can even be used as a baking ingredient.
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Makes: 1 cup
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Ingredients
- ¾ cup 2% milk
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoon vanilla syrup (store-bought or with recipe below)
Vanilla Syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean split lengthwise
Instructions
- Mix milk, cream, and vanilla syrup in a mason jar and shake to combine. Alternatively, you can stir all ingredients together in a bowl.
- If you're not using right away, keep in an airtight container in the fridge.
Vanilla Syrup
- Put water and sugar in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower heat and let mixture simmer for about 10 minutes until sugar is completely dissolved and mixture has thickened a bit.
- Pour syrup into a heat-proof jar or container. Scrape out some of the seeds from the sliced open vanilla pod with a sharp knife and add them and the vanilla bean into the syrup.
- Place syrup in fridge and let steep for at least 6 hours. Syrup will thicken more as it cools. If you want a more intense vanilla flavor, you can leave the bean in after 6 hours.
- When vanilla syrup is stored in an airtight container in the fridge, it should stay good for about a month.
Notes
- Note that if you're making your own vanilla syrup, it will need about 6 hours to steep. If you are in a rush and don't want to wait 6 hours for syrup to infuse, let it cool and shake jar vigorously to infuse vanilla flavor faster. Taste before using.
- Servings are dependent on how much you like to use in your coffee.
- Sweet cream should keep in your fridge in an airtight container for as long as the milk and cream are good (when milk and cream are expired, cold cream shouldn't be used anymore).
- To make chocolate sweet cream, simply add 2 ½ tablespoon chocolate malt powder. To make additional flavors, you can any flavor syrup you want instead of vanilla. See post body for more ideas.
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