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- I tried hazelnut creamers from six brands, including Coffee mate, Starbucks, and Chobani.
- I wasn’t super impressed with the creamers I tried from Barissimo and Wide Awake Coffee Co.
- Chobani’s hazelnut creamer was my favorite, and International Delight’s would be my second choice.
It’s hard to know which creamer will make you the best cup of coffee just by looking at the bottle.
Since there are a lot of options at grocery stores, I wanted to know which hazelnut creamer I should be spending my money on.
So, I picked up hazelnut creamers from a range of brands, including International Delight, Starbucks, Chobani, Barissimo, Wide Awake Coffee Co., and Coffee mate.
For my taste test, I added the same amount of each creamer to a 3-ounce cup of Eight O’Clock Coffee’s dark Italian espresso roast.
Here’s how the creamers stacked up, ranked from my least favorite to my top pick.
The Wide Awake Coffee Co. creamer contains real milk and cream.
The creamer from Wide Awake Coffee Co. says it contains real cream and milk, which I liked. This meant that, unlike most creamers on the list, the first ingredient wasn’t water.
This 32-ounce jug cost $4 and contains 64 one-tablespoon servings. So, the price is about 6 cents per tablespoon.
This creamer didn’t have a ton of flavor.
In my opinion, this creamer wasn’t overly flavorful. It added a slight creamy thickness to my coffee but tasted far less sweet than its competitors.
I think I’d need to use a lot of this to notice a hazelnut taste in my coffee — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for people who prefer a more subtly flavored cup of joe.
Barissimo hazelnut coffee creamer was the most affordable pick.
Barissimo is a label from budget grocer Aldi, so I wasn’t surprised this was the cheapest creamer I tried.
A 32-ounce container with 63 one-tablespoon servings cost me $2.59, or about 4 cents per tablespoon.
This creamer felt a little runny.
Barissimo had the runniest formula of the creamers I tried, and my coffee didn’t necessarily feel creamier or richer after I used this.
Like the Wide Awake Co. creamer, I feel like I’d need to add way more of this to my coffee to really get any sweet hazelnut flavor.
Still, the price was great and I did enjoy the faint nutty flavor I could taste.
I had high hopes for the Starbucks non-dairy hazelnut-latte creamer.
For my only non-dairy option of the group, I picked up Starbucks’ hazelnut-latte coffee creamer, which is made with almond and oat milk.
At $5.98 for a 28-ounce bottle containing 55 one-tablespoon servings, this was one of the most expensive creamers I purchased. The price worked out to about 11 cents per tablespoon.
This non-dairy option should focus on one nut.
Considering how recognizable and famous Starbucks is as a brand, I had high hopes for this creamer.
However, I found the almond milk competed too much with the hazelnut flavors. The almond already gave this creamer a nutty finish, so the hazelnut felt almost overpowering and redundant.
The creamer was tasty, and this is a decent non-dairy option — but I missed having real cream to help balance the taste of hazelnut.
Coffee mate’s zero-sugar hazelnut creamer was also one of the cheaper options.
I didn’t intend to try zero-sugar options, but I really wanted to taste a hazelnut creamer from the famous Coffee mate brand — and this was the only hazelnut one I could find after visiting multiple grocery stores.
A 32-ounce bottle of Coffee mate’s zero-sugar hazelnut creamer cost me $3.98 and contains 63 one-tablespoon servings.
At about 6 cents per tablespoon, this creamer was the second most budget-friendly of the group.
This creamer tasted balanced and seemed like a good value.
The Coffee mate creamer left me somewhat impressed, especially considering it contains no added sugar.
It had a slightly thick consistency (perhaps because the second ingredient on the label is corn syrup) and added the perfect level of creaminess to my coffee.
The sweetness and hazelnut flavor seemed balanced and not overwhelming, but I didn’t like the aftertaste this creamer left in my mouth.
The International Delight Hazelnut creamer seemed promising.
I often see International Delight creamers offered in small containers at diners and continental breakfasts at hotels, so I hoped its hazelnut variety would be reliably tasty.
The 32-ounce bottle of International Delight creamer cost $4.29 for 63 one-tablespoon servings, or 7 cents per tablespoon.
This creamer had a nice toasty flavor.
This creamer seemed noticeably creamier than the one from Coffee mate, which I really liked.
Unlike a lot of the other creamers I tried, this one had a pleasant toasty flavor — almost like the hazelnuts had been roasted over a fire.
The creamer also had a nice burst of sweetness.
I was excited to try the Chobani hazelnut coffee creamer.
I’ve seen many of Chobani’s limited-edition and cookie-flavored creamers go viral on TikTok, so I was excited to see how the brand would tackle a more classic flavor like hazelnut.
A 24-ounce bottle cost $5.49 and contains 47 one-tablespoon servings. So, each tablespoon cost about 12 cents — making this the priciest creamer I tried.
This creamer had the thickest and most satisfying formula.
The Chobani creamer’s first three ingredients were milk, cream, and cane sugar. For context, the creamers I tried all listed water as their first ingredient except for the one from Wide Awake Coffee Co.
I definitely think leading with dairy-forward ingredients helped give this creamer an incredibly pleasant thickness.
This was the thickest creamer I tried, and it had a sweet and wonderfully full-bodied hazelnut flavor.
For me, Chobani takes the crown.
Chobani’s hazelnut creamer was my No. 1 choice.
In my opinion, it’s the creamer to pick if you want to add the most full-bodied, nutty, authentic hazelnut flavor to your beverage.
Unfortunately, it’s also the most expensive per serving. However, the cost-per-serving differences between these creamers feel fairly negligible at just a few cents — especially if you wait for your favorite to go on sale.
Plus, since the Chobani creamer is so thick and flavorful, a little bit of it feels like it can go a longer way than most others I tried.
That said, if you prefer a more subtle hazelnut flavor or an add-in that’s not going to make your coffee overly creamy, you’ll probably prefer other options on this list.
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