On a chilly morning, when we need something filling but easy, when we feel the need for extra comfort: We have found this to be better than milk.
Our Warm Vanilla Soother recipe has been around for a while. If you’re a Heavenly Homemakers veteran, you’ve likely tried it a time or three. But just in case you’re new, or in case you’ve been around a while but need to be reminded, we wanted to highlight our Warm Vanilla Soother today!
Our 5-year old Bonus Boy is a milk-drinking-machine. He loves his milk, and didn’t bat an eye when he moved in with us and we started serving him our farm-fresh raw milk. He guzzles it down until we tell him “that’s all for now.” So I wondered how he’d like our Warm Vanilla Soother. Oh…he likes it. He likes it very much. And he likes the chocolate variety too. Who wouldn’t?
So what’s better than a milk mustache (worn very often by our 5-year old)? A Warm Vanilla Soother mustache, of course.
Better Than Milk: Warm Vanilla Soother
- 3 cups whole milk
- 4 egg yolks
- ¼ cup real maple syrup
- 2 Tablespoons arrowroot powder or corn starch
- 1 Tablespoon butter (optional, but delicious!)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together milk, egg yolks, maple syrup and arrowroot powder.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly (I use a whisk) until mixture begins to thicken.
- Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla.
- Stir until creamy.
- Pour into mugs and serve warm.
Here are a couple other fun varieties we’ve created!
If you live in a colder climate as I do, it’s recipes like these that are getting us through these “it’s almost spring but still very chilly” days. We will make it through until warm weather finds us!
My youngest just rolled out of bed and asked if I could find this recipe. Have not been on your blog in quite a while so it was fun to see it was your latest post!