La Crème Coffee Creamer Review---and a $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway!

This is a sponsored review from BlogHer and La Crème.

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We THINK this one means it's perishable and liquid
but not a hazardous chemical.

Inside this particular package was an assortment of La Crème coffee creamers for me to try. They need to be used within a week of opening and I opened all four, so please do come by for coffee if you're in the area.

From left to right: Hazelnut, French Vanilla, The Original, and Cinnamon Vanilla

I normally use powdered or liquid non-dairy creamers, always the sweetened/flavored ones. Let's compare my creamer usage to yours, so you know how to incorporate the review. This is the color I like my coffee to be:

(I keep thinking that's a drip down the front of the bottle)

I like to be able to taste the coffee, not just the creamer, but I also want distinct creaminess, sweetness, and whatever the flavor is.

I first tried The Original, which is unsweetened. I do sometimes take my coffee with a slosh of milk or cream and no sweetener, and that's exactly what this was like. Since La Crème is lactose-free, this would be the perfect one for someone who wants real cream in their coffee but needs to avoid lactose.

I next tried the Hazelnut. Again, very good creaminess. Less sweetness and flavor than I'm used to: I don't think I would have known it was hazelnut.

I next tried Cinnamon Vanilla. Very good creaminess, light sweetness. I could taste the cinnamon but not the vanilla---but I find vanilla very hard to detect in coffee. I have a bag of vanilla-flavored coffee that's supposed to be intensely vanilla, and I find the vanilla mild even in that.

The French Vanilla smelled AMAZING, like melted ice cream, or like buttercream frosting, so I put in twice as much as I usually would. It was delicious, and with the double dose I could taste the vanilla---but I couldn't taste the coffee anymore. What I had was like a delicious French Vanilla non-chocolate hot chocolate.

So, overall, comparing the flavored/sweetened three dairy creamers to the non-dairy flavored/sweetened creamers I'm accustomed to, I'd say the La Crème creamers have significantly more creaminess with noticeably less sweetness and flavor. The perfect thing for me would be a combination: the actual dairy and creamness of the La Crème, but with more sweet and more flavor like the fake-dairy ones.

And I'm picturing some of you saying, "Wait--I never use those artificial creamers, because they are TOO SWEET and I hate the fakey flavors!" In which case, OMG YOU HAVE TO TRY LA CRÈME! You will be so happy!

I know it's what's on the inside that really matters, but I'd also like to praise the bottles, because they really do look classy and awesome. If I wanted to give someone a coffee gift (mug, package of good coffee, creamers), I would choose these every time because they're so pretty. They look EXPENSIVE. And I don't know if you can tell from the photos, but the coating is satiny rather than shiny, so it not only looks nice but feels nice.


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