How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Condensed Milk

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Keep reading for a great recipe and instructions for making sweet cream cold foam without condensed milk!

How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Condensed Milk

Making sweet cream cold foam without condensed milk is easy and a little healthier due to the reduced fat and is perfect for iced coffee, cold brew coffee and other cold coffee drinks as well as hot coffee beverages.

You can easily turn this recipe into a flavored sweet cream cold foam like a vanilla sweet cream cold foam or a salted caramel sweet cream cold foam depending on how you wish to flavor it.

It is simply a matter of using herbs, spices or flavored syrups or flavored extracts.

The same principle behind this recipe can have you switching the type of milk used to make almond milk, coconut milk, oat milk, soy milk, cashew milk or rice milk versions.

In no time you will be able to make the drinks and tasty toppings of the same high standard and quality as Starbucks.

Read: How to make sweet cream cold foam with almond milk

Why You Will Love This Condensed Milk Free Sweet Cream Cold Foam Recipe

• Iced coffee or cold brew coffee is a great way to start your day or relax with in the early evening with a little self-care that you deserve.
• You can make it in only a few minutes.
• It stays fresh in your fridge for up to 5 days.
• None of the ingredients are difficult to find.

How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Condensed Milk At Home

Let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of this article and get making a delightful and tasty topping! Let’s talk about the ingredients that you will need.

Ingredients Needed

• Milk: 2% milk or an alternative milk like almond milk, oat milk or coconut milk as well as soy milk are great options.
• Heavy cream: Heavy whipping cream and heavy cream are great choices.
• Sweetener: Simple syrup is the most popular sweetener but is not a “must use” ingredient. If you are on a sugar-free diet, Demerara syrup, maple syrup, honey and agave are all great options.
• Cinnamon: An optional ingredient, a sprinkle of cinnamon is good, but optional.
• Vanilla Simple Syrup: 100% optional and only if you want to make a vanilla sweet cream cold foam. When using this ingredient skip the sweetener. You can also flavor with vanilla extract or a vanilla pod.

Read: How to make sweet cream cold foam with oat milk

Instructions

Start by adding all your whipped cream or heavy cream, and milk into a bowl or mason jar. Mix well and add your simple syrup or sweetener of your choice and add your flavoring if you decide to flavor it. Mix well again to ensure a good and even distribution of your sweetness and flavor.

Use a handheld electric milk frother and insert it to the bottom of your mason jar or tall glass and froth your sweet cream cold foam solution while moving your milk frother slowly and evenly through your wand from bottom to top and ensure that it is completely frothed.

Frothing should take about a minute.

Aim to have nice thick peaks that you can pour onto your coffee beverage and have it sit on top of your drink. It should be thicker than melted ice cream. You will fairly quickly develop an eye for what kind of thickness you need and like.

To make it thicker or thinner you can alter the amount of heavy cream used. Frothing for longer also helps to make your solution thicker.

Pour it over your beverage by diffusing it over a tablespoon.

Amount Of Each Ingredient To Use

The following quantities are on a per person and per 12 Oz (360 ml) cup of coffee basis:

• 3 Tablespoons of heavy cream.
• ⅓ of a cup of 2% milk.
• 1 Tablespoon of maple syrup or 1 Tablespoon of honey, or 1 pump of simple syrup.
• Optional: ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon of vanilla bean paste or 1 pump of vanilla syrup*

*If you opt to flavor with vanilla simple syrup, skip the use of a sweetener.

Read: How to make sweet cream cold foam

Vanilla Simple Syrup Alternatives

Alternatives to vanilla syrups are of course vanilla extract or vanilla paste. Use them in the same way as a vanilla syrup and mix well.

The gourmet version and best way of flavoring with vanilla is to slice a vanilla pod evenly and heat your ingredient at a low to medium heat and add a sliced vanilla pod and mix well.

Don’t let your mix go higher than 55C (130F), as above this temperature the milk sugars will start to burn and caramelize.

Let your sweet cream cold foam cool down for 6 to 12 hours to allow time for the vanilla flavor to extract.

How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Heavy Cream

Making your sweet cream cold foam without condensed milk or heavy cream is easy.

Substitute the heavy cream for coconut cream or oat milk cream and mix well and froth for a little longer than you normally would to get the consistency that you need and are looking for.

Other alternative milk-based creams are great options too. You can also use 2% milk and use a tiny amount of gellan gum as an emulsifying agent. Don’t use Xanthan gum, not even a tiny amount as Xanthan gum will produce too stiff and gooey milk, think like a Starbucks Frappuccino like stiffness or a McDonald’s ice cream.

Frequently Asked Questions About How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Condensed Milk

Why Isn’t My Cold Foam Foaming Up?

If you have used granulated sugar, the sugar may be preventing the perfect foam from forming. Always use a simple syrup as a sweetener as it helps to get a better quality foam and a more even distribution of sweetness!

Can You Make Foam With Milk And Sugar?

While you can use milk and sugar, low fat or nonfat milk is better. Sugar granules may have the effect of inhibiting the formation of perfect foam when they are used. I advise that you make a 50% sugar and 50% water mix and use that as a simple syrup to sweeten your milk and make a better quality cold foam!

Can You Whip Milk Into Foam?

Yes, whip your milk well with an electric milk frother or a blender, and you can make a high quality foam. For your vanilla sweet cream cold foam, just add vanilla syrup before you whip it.

What Kind Of Milk Does Starbucks Use For Cold Foam?

Starbucks uses nonfat milk to make their cold foam unless an alternative dairy milk or non-dairy milk is requested.

How Do You Make Cold Foam Without Tools?

Yes, you can make your cold foam with a mason jar. Add your ingredients, mix well and shake with great strength for a minute. Use your French press, add ingredients, mix well and pump for a minute. Use a manual balloon whisk and whisk until you get the consistency that you need.

Add to your cold brew coffee or iced coffee beverage.

How Do You Make Cold Foam Without A Foamer?

There are a few techniques for making cold foam without an electric milk frother. By far the best is the pump-based manual milk frother or French press method.

Simply add your ingredients and pump with gusto for a minute.

A blender will also get you high quality results. Add your ingredients and blend at a high speed for 30 seconds to a minute.

Is Starbucks Cold Foam Just Whipped Cream?

No, Starbuck cold foam is not whipped cream it’s whipped low fat (nonfat milk). The flavored versions have a flavored simple syrup added. It is then whipped to make a cold foam.

Is Starbucks Cold Foam Just Milk?

Yes, unflavored and unsweetened cold foam is just nonfat milk that has been whipped at high speed for about a minute. Starbucks vanilla sweet cream cold foam has vanilla syrup added to flavor it.

Final Thoughts – How To Make Sweet Cream Cold Foam Without Condensed Milk

When you know how to make sweet cream cold foam without condensed milk and understand the core principles of making sweet cream cold foam and how various flavors can mix well together and with coffee, you can start to get very creative and make your unique flavors. 

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