Holiday coffee creamer isn’t just reserved for peppermint mocha, eggnog, or gingerbread. Making a DIY coffee creamer with Golden Figs brings a taste of autumn and winter to your coffee cup. If you’ve never had figs and coffee before, you’re in for a treat—figs complement the roasty flavor of your morning brew.
![Making holiday coffee creamer with Golden Figs brings a taste of fall to coffee. Figs add body, flavor & sweetness to DIY coffee creamer.](https://valleyfig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig-Coffee-Creamer-credit-AnneliesZ-2003-hero-732x1024.jpg)
What Kind of Figs to Use in Holiday Coffee Creamer
For the holiday coffee creamer, we suggest using Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid Golden Figs. Their delicate sweetness is a little tangy and nutty in flavor. The color of the resulting DIY coffee creamer resembles a toasty dulce de leche (and kind of tastes like it too). You could certainly use our Mission Figs for a twist on the creamer that takes it more into the familiar flavor of your favorite childhood cookie and deeper color too. This is a coffee creamer for fig lovers!
![Pot of coffee, fig holiday coffee creamer in creamer receptacle, coffee cup, golden figs in the foreground and package of Orchard Choice Golden Figs in the background.](https://valleyfig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig-Coffee-Creamer-credit-AnneliesZ-1992-hero-OC-732x1024.jpg)
A Few Ingredients is All You Need for DIY Coffee Creamer
All you need are three ingredients (with an optional addition we explore below): whole milk, sugar, and Golden Figs.
![Coffee mug by light blue kitchen towel next to a creamer filled with Golden Fig Holiday Coffee Creamer and Orchard Choice Golden Dried Figs on a marble counter.](https://valleyfig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig-Coffee-Creamer-credit-AnneliesZ-1985V-creamed-732x1024.jpg)
How to Make DIY Coffee Creamer with Figs
The method to make this holiday coffee creamer is straightforward and simple. You will make a milk simple syrup, cooking the milk and sugar over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Off-heat, stir in the quartered figs, so they can steep in the hot sweetened milk for about 30 minutes.
Then, blend until mostly smooth. Strain (or double-strain if you like) using a fine-mesh strainer set over a bowl, stirring the liquid in the strainer basket until only the solids remain (more on the solids in a moment). Transfer the strained creamer in a sealed container, stirring in the remaining 1 cup of whole milk or, you can shake the jar once closed. To make it extra creamy, you could also stir in an optional 1/4 cup of heavy cream, or omit if you like.
Store the creamer in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
![Bowl of oatmeal topped with fig milk jam by a coffee mug and pile of Orchard Choice Golden Dried Figs near a creamer full of Fig Holiday Coffee Creamer](https://valleyfig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig-Coffee-Creamer-credit-AnneliesZ-1996-hero-breakfast-oatmeal-731x1024.jpg)
Creamer with Benefits: Fig Milk Jam
Those solids you strained out of the DIY coffee creamer are an incredible fig milk jam! Transfer them to a sealed container to store in the refrigerator. We like to spread it on toast. Try it as a topping for oatmeal, yogurt, or French Toast. Or, one of our other favorite ways to use it is mixed into pancake batter so every bite has a hint of gorgeous Golden Fig flavor in it. You could also use it to make Fig Thumbprint Cookies; add it to a dessert nibble board. Or, give a jar of it as an edible gift to pull out of the fridge during holiday breakfasts.
Fig Holiday Coffee Creamer
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Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk (divided)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 8 ounce bag Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid Mission Dried Golden Figs , stemmed and quartered
- 1/4 cup heavy cream optional
Instructions
- In a saucepan, pour 1 1/2 cups whole milk with the sugar set over medium heat. You want to cook the mixture until the sugar dissolves: Cook for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn heat to medium low and cook an additional 3 minutes, stirring as needed. Turn off the heat.
- Stir in the figs. Set aside to steep for 30 minutes.
- In a blender, process until almost smooth (it will be pretty thick). Set a fine-mesh strainer over a bowl.
- Pour the creamer into the strainer and stir until what remains in the strainer basket resembles a dry paste. Set aside the solids and store separately in the refrigerator.
- Strain the creamer again if desired and add in the remaining 1 cup of whole milk, and 1/4 cup of heavy cream if desired. Store the creamer in a sealed container in the refrigerator.