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    Homemade Vanilla Syrup For Coffee

    Jan 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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    I seriously enjoy making homemade food gifts, its just so satisfying to me. I have a bunch of recipes for them on my site. Today, I want to show you how to make Homemade Vanilla Syrup for coffee. I’ve been making this syrup for years and years. It was one of the earliest recipes on my site actually back in 2010.

    How To Make Homemade Vanilla Syrup for Coffee

    Use this recipe for how to make Homemade Vanilla Syrup to:

    Flavor your coffee either hot or cold brew, cappuccino or latte or flavor iced tea or iced tea with it. Drizzle it over ice cream, pancakes, French toast or waffles. My daughter likes to add it to pancake batter.

    You can also flavor club soda with it or add it in place of honey or sugar to dessert recipes. Use it in cocktails, in iced tea, to make your own vanilla Coke/Pepsi, or whatever you dream up!

    I have drizzled homemade vanilla syrup over fresh fruit, added it to oatmeal and I have brushed the top of both pound cakes with it. SO many uses!

    What Ingredients Do I Need Flavor My Coffee?

    It couldn’t be easier! All you need are a vanilla bean or two, sugar and water. I like to use up my old dry vanilla beans for this. I have the best of intentions when I buy vanilla beans however I forget about them and they dry up. YOu can use any old bean for making this syrup.

    Choose your sweetener, I use a mix of white and brown sugar however you can use part honey as well or agave in place of sugar. If using agave, I would do a 1 to 1 ration. Boil your vanilla bean for 5 minutes in the water and then stir in the agave. Allow it to sit until fully cool, open the beans if you like and scrape out the seeds.

    If you want these little bottles to keep your syrup in, this is where I purchased them. 

    Homemade Vanilla Syrup For Coffee Lovers

    What I like about making vanilla syrup myself is that I can control the sweetness and the ingredients. I do not make this as a 1 to 1 ratio of sugar to water. I don’t think that much sugar is necessary. If you want your vanilla syrup even sweeter, by all means, go ahead and add more sugar.

    If you want a thicker syrup, you can add more sugar than water as well. If you want to see the little beans floating throughout your syrup, read the notes in the recipe to see how to make that happen.

    how to make vanilla syrup

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    Enjoy!!

     

    How To Make Homemade Vanilla Syrup for Coffee
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    Homemade Vanilla Syrup For Coffee

    Making your own Vanilla Simple Syrup for use in coffee, tea, soda and many other things is easy and economical. Plus it's delicious!
    Prep Time5 mins
    Cook Time10 mins
    Total Time15 mins
    Course: Condiment
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 2 cups
    Calories: 25kcal
    Author: Colleen Kennedy

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups of water
    • 2 whole vanilla beans
    • 1 cup white sugar
    • 1/4 brown sugar

    Instructions

    • In a small pot, combine water, sugars and vanilla beans and bring mixture to a boil, stirring once or twice to help melt the sugars.
    • Reduce to a simmer and continue to simmer for 5 minutes.
    • Remove from heat and allow to cool.
    • Leave mixture in the pot, covered overnight to intensify the vanilla flavor.
    • Pour vanilla syrup into a bottle or mason jar and store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

    Notes

    You can choose to only add 1 cup sugar total, 1 1/4 cups or up to 2 cps. It's up to you.You can use all white sugar, all brown sugar or a combination of both.
    Agave or other sugars can be substituted.
    If you want a thicker syrup, you can add more sugar than water.
    If you want to see vanilla beans in your syrup (which I do sometimes), slice open your vanilla beans after boiling and scrape seeds out into the mixture. Place beans back in overnight. Strain into a bowl. Trust me tons of itty bitty seeds will get through, straining will however prevent the clumps from getting through.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1g | Calories: 25kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Sodium: 1mg | Sugar: 7g

     

     

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