What is vanilla coffee?
Vanilla coffee is coffee carrying vanilla aroma — from a pod steeped with the grounds, a few drops of extract, a pump of syrup, or a blend that's already flavoured. Vanilla is not sweet on its own; it only smells sweet. That's why a cafe vanilla latte tastes sugary (that's the syrup) while a vanilla-flavoured blend can taste rich with almost no sugar at all.
- Aroma: creamy, floral, faintly woody
- Body: smooth — it softens acidity in lighter roasts
- Pairs with: milk, oat milk, cinnamon, cardamom, cocoa
How to make hot vanilla coffee
- Heat 200 ml water to 80–90°C — off the boil, so the aroma doesn't burn off.
- Add one Blackn Brownn Vanilla protein coffee sachet (or 1 tsp instant coffee + ½ tsp vanilla extract) to the mug.
- Pour 50 ml of the water in first and stir to a smooth paste — no lumps this way.
- Top with the remaining water, or 150 ml hot milk for a vanilla latte.
Iced vanilla latte (2 minutes)
- Stir 1 sachet into 50 ml warm water until completely smooth.
- Fill a glass with ice and pour in 180 ml cold milk.
- Add the coffee paste, stir 10 seconds, or shake in a bottle for a foamy top.
Vanilla coffee without syrup
Two ways to keep the flavour and lose the sugar: steep half a split vanilla pod in the milk while it warms, or use ½ tsp of pure vanilla extract per cup. Both give you the aroma at zero added sugar — a standard cafe vanilla latte carries roughly 15–20 g of sugar from syrup alone.
Three vanilla variations
Vanilla Cinnamon Latte
1 sachet + 200 ml hot milk + a pinch of cinnamon on top.
Vanilla Cold Foam Coffee
1 sachet over ice and milk, topped with milk whisked to a soft foam.
Vanilla Protein Shake
1 sachet + 250 ml cold milk + ice, blended for 20 seconds.
Vanilla coffee with 5 g of protein
Our Vanilla sachet is a 12 g single-serve arabica blend with 5 g of protein — the same creamy vanilla cup, but one that actually holds you until lunch. It dissolves in hot water or cold milk in about 30 seconds.
Shop Vanilla protein coffee — or grab the Try Pack to taste Vanilla next to Hazelnut, Butterscotch and Regular first. Prefer a jar? The freeze-dried Arabica Vanilla is on the shop page too.