coffee creamer

[jaynesh]

Does anyone know of a vegan coffee creamer. Seems all the non dairy ones still have milk protein or whatever. I would prefer the powdery kind. Thanks.

[karenlovessnow]

I use Silk creamer. They also have a flavored one, but I forget if it's Vanilla or Hazelnut. I didn't like the flavored one. I buy the plain. I also LOVE alpro soya. I buy it from Pangea. It's not available right now, something about it coming from Great Britain. So I am waiting for them to re-stock their supply. It's just like heavy cream.

[VeggieMath]

I like Silk creamers. They are liquid though. I like both the hazelnut and the french vanilla. I have yet to find a solid creamer that doesn't use dairy in some way. I would love to find a "powered milk" that is vegan also. No luck there also.

[butterfly_acid]

took me a while to get used to the soy in my coffee flavor, but yeah...french vanilla silk creamer...

Another idea is to use a little of the french vanilla soy and a bit more of almond milk (blue diamond seems to be the best). a well enjoyed treat: almond extract, a bit of sugar, and some almond milk. I make my coffee pretty strong, so it doesn't seem watered down by not using powders. Just food for thought, but my almond coffee rocks ^_^

[karenlovessnow]

I must have been delirious when I first read the OP. I totally missed the "powdery kind". Anyway, I used to love the powdered Coffeemate. There is a powdered form of Soy Milk (like Carnation Instant Milk) but it's not a coffee creamer. :( It's called Better Than Milk. I wonder if there's something we can do to it to make it taste like a creamer?

[SamuelWilson]

I realize you are not a raw foodist, but I make a great raw vegan coffee creamer. Here is the recipe...

Raw Vegan Coffee Creamer
1 cup almonds
1 cup spring water
3 tablespoons agave
1 vanilla bean (optional)

Directions: Soak almonds over night or at least 8 hours. Discard the water the almonds soaked in and rinse the almonds under the faucet. Blend the almonds with 1 cup of spring water. You may have to add a little bit more water to assist in blending, but only add enough to blend. Strain this mixture through cheese cloth into a bowl. Pour the strained almond milk back into the blender and add the 3 tablespoons of agave. You can adjust the agave to your taste but the creamer should be sweet. Scrape the vanilla beans from a sun dried vanilla pod into the creamer and finish blending. You now have raw vegan coffee creamer. Enjoy.

If you are not a raw foodist, you can simply sweeten the creamer with your own sweetener, it does not have to be agave. Also, if you are not a raw foodist, you can just use vanilla extract instead of whole sun dried vanilla pods.

[karenM]

Stupid question: What kind of coffee does a raw foodist use raw creamer in? ? ?

[SamuelWilson]

Stupid question: What kind of coffee does a raw foodist use raw creamer in? ? ?

It is not a stupid question. I would wonder the same thing.

I just thought my recipe would work great as coffee creamer. I don't have a coffee that I use creamer in myself.

I make a chocolate mocha drink kind of like one of those cold starbucks drinks. I use raw carob powder, brazil nut milk, vanilla bean pod and raw agave. That is the closest thing I have to coffee.

[karenM]

Ah, thanks for the answer. :)

by the way, the mocha drink sounds great, as does the creamer recipe. :lick:

[piratebean]

I bought Taam-Tov vegan creamer (you could buy it online at http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/index.html.) I personally do not care for it. It's the usual white powder creamer, but without the dairy stuff in it.

One of my biggest obstacles in finding a substitute creamer, since going vegan, is that I like the 'thickening' action of creamer, not just the lightening effect. So, I was never a fan of dumping milk into my coffee (almond milk, soy milk, whatever).

But then I got to thinking about it - I like cappucino made with soy milk. Of course, in a cappucino, there's a lot more 'milk' than espresso. So, I've started adding a bigger portion of soy milk to my coffee - about 70% coffee, 30% soymilk. I think that tastes fine. (I think I would need to use even more almond milk, since that's a little thinner than soymilk.)

So, that's one alternative to consider - just use a lot more 'milk' than you're used to, and see how you like that. I also think this is good because I have cut down on the amount of coffee I'm drinking. That is, I drink the same amount of 'coffee' (I fill my thermos each morning, and that's my limit), but since there's more soymilk in there, I'm drinking less coffee. And I think that's good for me. (I already drink half regular/half decaf coffee, so this is just another way to help me drink less caffeine.)

[SamuelWilson]

I think I would need to use even more almond milk, since that's a little thinner than soymilk.

piratebean, actually my recipe is for almond cream and it is creamier than almond milk. You could not blend a more dense mixture as it takes 1 cup of spring water, minimum, to blend a cup of soaked almonds. It actually takes more than a cup of water, but I provided that amount as a beginning point.

If you want it to be thicker, you could blend in dates as your sweetener. This will gel up the almond creamer a little and give it more of a traditional creamer effect on your coffee.

[Lelena]

I really like the Taam-Tov nondairy creamer. They are sold in containers and packets for on the go. It reminds me of Creamora.

[ltlghiagrl]

i've never seen the silk hazelnut creamer!!! just plain and vanilla, neither of which i like.

[*Sunflower*]

I bought Silk plain creamer the other day and it wasn't great. I don't drink coffee very often, so some of it might go bad before I use it. I don't like being wasteful, so I have to find something else to use it in too...Maybe I could add it to baked goods or make creamy mashed potatoes/sweet potatoes? Any other ideas?

[lforschner]

I realize you are not a raw foodist, but I make a great raw vegan coffee creamer. Here is the recipe...

Yahoo!! Thanks for this recipe... off to soak my almonds :D

[LovelyPerv]

There IS a powdered vegan creamer on the market. I have not tried it myself, but after being stranded at work too many times with no creamer, I'd like to give it a try.

FoodFight apparently carries it, but it out of stock at the moment:

http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/cocrtub.html

[Lelena]

LovelyPerv, that't the one I use. It is really good. Pangea and Veganessentials sell it as well, but you can only get the packets at Veganessentials.

[LovelyPerv]

Both Pangea and VeganEssentials have it in stock.

It's about $4.9X per 12oz tub, and each tub has "170 servings."

On both sites, shipping starts at $6.99 or so, and goes up by small incredments from there. It's something you'd want to purchase alongside other things you'd buy in order to make it worth it.

A local health/veg/kosher store I frequest carries a lot of the same specialty items you'd find on those three sites (and others), and I HAVE noticed that the prices online are the same as you'd find if you could buy it off of a shelf.

So, it's worth it if you're buying a bunch of stuff you can't get any other way.

Edited to add: The reviews I've seen for this are mixed (not just the ones on Vegan Essentials). It seems that you either love it or hate it. I'll drink 8-hour old coffee using expired creamer, and a sugar packet I found behind the fridge...so I'm pretty sure I'll like this stuff.