Make Your Own Caramel Vanilla Latte

Making your own Caramel Vanilla Latte at home is easy — even if you don’t have a fancy espresso machine or steamer. I’ll even show you my tip for getting great foam.

As someone who loves her coffee, I’m always noticing great coffee drink recipes on blogs and Pinterest. While I’ve made some frozen coffee drinks at home in blender, the one thing I’ve been hesitant to make at home is hot coffee drinks.

First, I don’t have a fancy espresso machine or something that will steam milk. I know some of the recipes I’m seeing probably don’t require those, but I’ve always figured it must be hard to make my own lattes at home if I didn’t have one. So, I just don’t attempt it. I stick with my basic brewed coffee with French Vanilla cream. It’s my thing, BUT I still crave those fancy schmancy lattes as the weather has gotten much cooler here in Vegas. So, my solution — stop at the local coffee shops occasionally to get one of their holiday coffee drinks.

I do have great restraint and don’t stop daily. And while that’s all great and stuff, I’ve been doing the math and even if I only get ONE latte per week from a coffee shop, I’m spending about $20 per month just on FOUR DRINKS. That’s kinda crazy.

So, I decided to see if I could make my very own fancy latte drink at home. And guess what? I DID. And it turned out delicious, without an expensive machine. If I can do it, you can do it too and I’m going to show you how.

To make your own Caramel Vanilla Latte, you will need hot brewed coffee (double-strength), Coffee-Mate French Vanilla Liquid Coffee Creamer, caramel sauce (make homemade or buy a jar) and milk (I used 2%). Optionally, you can also use whipped cream (homemade or not).

My “secret ingredient” for making my own Caramel Vanilla Latte is an OXO Egg Beater. I love this thing and making frothy milk was SO easy with it. If you don’t have an egg beater, you can use a whisk.

In a large coffee cup (I used one that is 14 oz), you add 2 tablespoons of the caramel sauce, 3 tablespoons of Coffee-Mate French Vanilla Liquid Coffee Creamer, and 2/3 cup hot coffee. You stir this until the caramel is dissolved.

In a small pan, heat 1 cup of milk over medium heat, beating constantly with an egg beater (or whisking constantly) to create foam.

Once the milk is hot, remove from heat and pour the milk slowly into your coffee cup, while using a large spoon to hold back the foam while you are pouring. Add the foam to the top.

Drizzle the top of your foam with additional caramel, if you wish.

If foam isn’t your thing, you don’t have to add it (or even create it). This one below is minus the foam, but with whipped cream and a caramel drizzle.

Here’s the recipe which is ready for your to print or save to ZipList:

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