Ooh, I miss Smart n' Final!
Christy, you can find them at a local coffee shop (not a chain, like Starbucks, though they have them, but they are super expensive)--they will usually order them for you. Getting them at a place like TJ Maxx/Marshall's/Ross is cheapest, though. They are better than extract because they are sweetened. You can use them to add both sweetness and flavor.
I use mine:
- To flavor smoothies
- To make hot cocoa (I use syrup in place of sugar in the recipe on the side of the Hershey's Cocoa box)
- To add to plain yogurt
- Drizzled over SF ice cream (a once in a blue moon indulgence...)
- Drizzled over Cottage cheese and fruit
- In coffee
- In tea (SF vanilla in the Gingerbread Spice tea is divine! )
- In recipes--homemade ice cream, baking, etc.
They are amazing...and very tasty. I love the Kahlua (great in hot cocoa and coffee...tastes like the real thing!), B-52 (a mix of kahlua, bailey's, etc.), English Toffee, and Caramel. Cinnamon was a bit bitter, Raspberry has way too much food coloring (pleh!), and White chocolate didn't really have any flavor. Those are all DaVinci flavors...haven't found Torani at a cheap price. I try to get the ones made primarily or totally with Splenda as the others seem to give me headaches.
Oh, and I love Irish Cream, too...I get it in my coffee at Wegman's!