Chocolate Covered Strawberry Creamer Recipe

A chocolate covered strawberry creamer is a coffee creamer flavoured with strawberry and chocolate; International Delight and Chobani have both sold one. For a homemade version, simmer strawberries with sugar and water for ten minutes, strain the syrup, whisk in cocoa, let it cool and stir in milk and cream. It makes about two and a quarter cups.

The bottled chocolate covered strawberry creamers

International Delight sold a Chocolate Covered Strawberries creamer in 2025 as a tie-in with the series Love Is Blind, next to a Wedding Cake creamer. Elite Daily reported on 27 January 2025 that the creamers cost $4 and would be on sale until June, and Sporked reviewed them that February.

A year later a review by The Kitchn, republished by Yahoo on 26 February 2026, covered a limited-batch Chocolate Covered Strawberry creamer from Chobani, at $5.79 for 24 fluid ounces and made with cream, milk and cane sugar.

The recipe here is not a copy of either bottle. It is a homemade creamer in the same flavour, made with fresh strawberries, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with International Delight or Chobani.

Recipe

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Creamer

A homemade coffee creamer in the flavour of chocolate covered strawberries — strawberry syrup, cocoa, whole milk and cream. About 2 1/4 cups, or 36 servings of one tablespoon.

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Prep

10 min

Cook

12 min

Total

55 min

Serves

36

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 8 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Put the strawberries, the sugar and the water in a small saucepan, bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook for 10 minutes, stirring now and then, until the berries are soft and pale and the syrup is red.
2. Strain the syrup through a fine sieve into a bowl, pressing lightly on the berries. There should be about 3/4 cup.
3. Whisk the cocoa and the salt into the hot syrup until no lumps remain. Let the syrup cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes.
4. Whisk in the milk, the cream and the vanilla. Pour the creamer into a clean bottle or jar and refrigerate. Shake before each use.

Nutrition

Calories:

30

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Why the syrup has to cool first

Strawberries are acidic, and acid curdles hot milk. Milk stirred into the syrup while it is still hot separates into fine grains. At room temperature the two mix without trouble.

Very hot coffee can do the same to the finished creamer. Let the coffee stand for a minute before adding it; in iced coffee the problem does not arise.

Cocoa goes into the hot syrup

Cocoa powder does not dissolve in cold milk. It floats in lumps. Whisked into the hot syrup it spreads evenly, and the salt goes in with it.

• Two tablespoons put the chocolate behind the strawberry.
• Three tablespoons of cocoa and one more of sugar make a creamer that is chocolate first.
• Dutch-process or natural cocoa: both work. Dutch-process is darker.

Cocoa settles in the bottle, so shake it every time. For the dessert itself, see the chocolate covered strawberries.

Frozen strawberries, and the cooked ones

Frozen strawberries work as well. Use 8 ounces straight from the freezer and cook them 2 minutes longer.

Press only lightly on the berries in the sieve. Pulp pushed through makes the creamer cloudy and leaves bits in the cup. The cooked berries have given up most of their colour but are still sweet, and they go into yogurt or oatmeal. For a syrup to keep on its own, see the strawberry syrup for pancakes.

Five days in the refrigerator

With fruit in it, the creamer is best used within five days, and never past the date on the milk or the cream. Start with 2 tablespoons in a cup of coffee.

Frothed, it becomes a pink foam for iced coffee: froth 3 tablespoons with a handheld frother, as for the strawberry cold foam. The other flavour from the Love Is Blind pair is the wedding cake creamer, and the birthday cake creamer is a copy of a Chobani bottle.