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This Homemade Sugar-Free Coffee Creamer is super tasty and made with just three simple ingredients.
This sugar-free coffee creamer recipe also fits the bill for anyone looking for a paleo coffee creamer or a keto coffee creamer recipe.
How Can I Sweeten My Coffee Without Sugar
My recipe has just three simple ingredients – milk, vanilla, and dates. While I use heavy cream for my own consumption, you are welcome to choose any milk that you like to drink.
If you find yourself with leftover dates, check out my archive of date recipes.
To make this paleo: use a non-dairy milk with some creaminess to it like coconut or cashew.
As this is already really low carb, leaving the heavy cream in would make this keto-friendly. All the powdered sugar substitutes that the keto diet uses do really weird things to my sensitive teeth, so this is an alternative that may work better for some keto followers.
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Here’s How to Make It:
- Combine cream, dates, and vanilla in a saucepan and cook on medium heat for 15 minutes. Stir often.
- Transfer to a high-powered blender (like Vitamix), and blend until the dates are fully incorporated into the mixture. If you have a conventional blender, blend on high for 2-3 minutes.
- Then using a metal sieve, a piece of cheesecloth, or even a colander fitted with a tea towel (or paper towel), strain the mixture to remove any date particles that may remain.
Variations on Homemade Sugar-Free Coffee Creamer:
- Almond flavored: Add almond extract (yum) instead of the vanilla.
- Hazelnut: replace the vanilla with hazelnut extract.
- Chocolate Hazelnut (hold me): hazelnut extract and 1 tbsp dark cocoa powder.
- Cinnamon Roll creamer: add 2 tsp of ground cinnamon along with the vanilla extract.
- Chocolate Mint: 1 tbsp dark cocoa powder, and 1/2 tsp mint extract. (related: try homemade)
Homemade Sugar-Free Coffee Creamer {Paleo Coffee Creamer}
Instructions
- Place all three ingredients in a small saucepan, and heat on medium for 15 minutes, stirring often.2 cups heavy cream, 2 tsp pure vanilla extract, 7 dates, pitted
- Transfer to a high-powered blender (like a Vitamix), and blend until the dates are fully incorporated into the mixture. If you have a conventional blender, blend on high for 2-3 minutes.
- Then using a metal sieve, a piece of cheesecloth, or even a colander fitted with a tea towel (or paper towel), strain the mixture to remove any date particles that may remain.
- Transfer the finished creamer to an air-tight container (a mason jar or old salad dressing jar would be great).
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hello…. curious what is the purpose of the dates in the creamer recipe? As a diabetic, what can I substitute with the dates?
The dates are there as a natural sweetener. I would use your diabetic-safe sweetener of choice in place of the dates.
My wife and I, are having trouble finding , Sugar Free and Low Carb , items.. It’s like they double the price, on items for sugar free..
We just found out, my wife is diabetic.. So now I’m trying to learn, to make homemade items.. Thank You So Much..
Glad I can help in any way!
I made this it is very good. However, it gets so think and sludge like once it’s refrigerated. Am I doing something wrong? I have to spoon it out of the container because it doesn’t pour.
The milkfat in your heavy cream might be a lot. You could try switching to half-and-half and see if that works better for you.
Hi! I made this and over night my cream got really thick in the fringe. Do you know what I did wrong?
Cream can vary in milkfat percentage, so it may not have been that something went wrong, it’s just that your cream is thicker. The easiest thing to do at this point would be to thin it a bit with any lower-fat milk that you have on hand.
This looks great, looking forward to trying. Do you have any variations, like chocolate. Can I add high quality cocoa powder as a variation? If you could email me other recipes that would be appreciated, thank you.
I don’t really have other options, but you could absolutely use flavors, cocoa powder, etc.
Cocoa powder tends to settle at the top after a bit, so you may need to shake it before serving.
Would you say that either honey is OK for diabetes
I am not educated enough on diabetes to suggest a safe alternative. My grandpa has diabetes and I remember honey being slower to raise insulin but other than that, I don’t know much about how it interacts with blood sugar.
I LOVE LOVE this recipe.. one question though… when I used heavy whipping cream, it became very thick.. so much that it didn’t pour, I had to scoop it out like ice cream 🤔 I prefer heavy cream to half and half .. but could try if that would work better..
Am I doing something wrong?
I haven’t experienced that before, Tracy. Maybe try 1 cup of heavy cream and 1 cup of a lower milkfat milk or half-and-half and see if that works better for you.
I tried that and it worked! Thank you
Excellent!!
So excited to try this recipe. Will it work with 2% milk?
Thank you!
Absolutely! 🙂
Thank you for this recipe. I can’t wait to try it. Should I use canned coconut milk or coconut milk from the dairy section?
It’s up to you, Christie! Canned will be a lot thicker and will have “solids” in there that would either need to be blended or heated to dissolve. From the fridge section, it is ready to go, but the consistency is thinner.
Thank you for helping me kick my sugar habit, while still enjoying my beloved coffee! I am not a fan of the aftertaste from many artificial sweetness, so this recipe has been a lifesaver.
I’m so glad you enjoyed this Linda!
The few things I have tried with fake sugars definitely had a weird aftertaste. And I find they coat my teeth in a funny way. Blech!
I find it totally bizarre that a hm coffee creamer isn’t something the Whole30 police allow, but you can have Nutpods.
Except they are not available here.
You are right, black coffee is shit!
There are tons of aspects of Whole30 that just have my scratching my head sometimes Pauline!
I’m doing the keto diet and I used coffeemate creamer. How does this compare to that and is it keto for sure? Thanks
Hi Christina, you’d have to look at the nutritional label for the creamer you were using (there are so many kinds of coffee mate!). This creamer has 1g carb, 1g sugar, and 5g fat.
I too am fall for the white dragon and have ditched all daily refined sugars except in my coffee. I considered just not drinking coffee but being my last vice it’s so hard to say goodbye.
I wanted to try something like this without the dates. Hoping flavor and cream will be enough. If you come up with a rich flavor combo or something with no sweet added please share. I’d love to try it!
Shirley, have you tried Nutpods? It is non-sweet dairy-free creamer that is actually really delicious. I don’t have a problem with dairy but I love the consistency and taste of Nutpods. I know the name is insanely weird.
They can be harder to find but are in the coffee creamer section at my local grocery store.
Yum! This is soooooo good! I had to stop myself from eating it straight out of the jar. Can’t wait to try it in my coffee tomorrow!
I love it too Nicole and am so glad you found it tasty!
why don’t you just drink your coffee with ordinary milk ? fullfat, half, I don’t see any reason to produce a substitute?
Angela
Good question Angela! It is because coffee is like anything in life – what works for one person may not work for another. Giving people options and letting them choose what they prefer is my favorite thing. If you like regular milk then keep on keeping on. But a lot of my readers are dairy-free, vegan, etc., and like fun alternatives that work for them.
So I read on the back of my coconut oil (the kind that actually tastes like coconut- unrefined???) that it can be used as coffee creamer. Have you tried it in any creamer recipe? Sounds yuckie though I like green mountain island coconut coffee.
Some people use it in bulletproof coffee but I just feel like it would coat your teeth and be nasty. They also use butter or ghee.
https://blog.bulletproof.com/how-to-make-your-coffee-bulletproof-and-your-morning-too/
Dates have sugar in them……
Weight Gain: Dates should be included as a part of a healthy diet. They consist of sugar, proteins and many essential vitamins. If dates are consumed with cucumber paste, you can keep your weight at a normal, balanced level, rather than over-slimming. One kilogram of dates contains almost 3,000 calories, and the calories in them are sufficient to meet the daily requirements for a human body. Of course, you should not eat just dates throughout the day. If you are thin and slim and want to increase your weight, or if you are trying to build your muscles to impress some girl, or you have become weak due to a serious medical problem – you need to eat dates!
So much yes here! I drink 1-2 cups of coffee per day but I don’t like throwing table sugar in things and artificial sweeteners aren’t my favorite either. Plus dates have so many vitamins. I love this and I will have to try it out! <3
Does it look curdled and separate after it’s been frozen? If you’ve ever frozen half and half, it’s chunky in coffee when thawed.
It gets a little grainy, but not curdled. Half and half doesn’t have enough milkfat to freeze “cleanly”, which is why I recommend a cream with at least 40% milkfat.
Thank you! I’ll try it. Lazy lady lasagne is awesome by the way!
That actually sounds pretty good! I too drink only decaf, and my children are fiends for coffee, also only decaf.. but I hardly drink it and usually only let them have it on the weekends. We use heavy cream and those flavored syrups but this sounds nicer to be sugar free!