Starbucks Lavender Creamer Recipe

The Starbucks lavender creamer sold in grocery stores is a non-dairy oat milk creamer flavoured with lavender and a little vanilla. To make it at home, dissolve three quarters of a cup of sugar in half a cup of water, steep a tablespoon of dried culinary lavender in the hot syrup for fifteen minutes, strain it and shake it with oat milk and vanilla.

What the Starbucks lavender creamer is

Starbucks announced it on 17 January 2025 as Lavender Latte Flavored Oatmilk Creamer, one of its first oat milk creamers. It was inspired by the Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte from the cafés, is available all year and had a suggested price of $5.99 for a 28-ounce bottle.

The product page lists oat milk made of water and oat flour, then sugar, coconut oil, pea protein, potassium citrate, baking soda, natural flavours and gellan gum. A serving is one tablespoon, with 30 calories, 1 gram of fat and 5 grams of sugars. The copy below comes to about 20 calories per tablespoon by USDA figures.

The recipe below is a reconstruction from that list, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Starbucks.

Recipe

Lavender Oat Milk Creamer

A reconstruction of Starbucks' Lavender Latte Inspired oat milk creamer — lavender syrup, oat milk and vanilla. About 2 cups, or 34 servings of one tablespoon.

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Prep

5 min

Cook

5 min

Total

40 min

Serves

34

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tablespoon dried culinary lavender
• 1 1/4 cups oat milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Heat the sugar and the water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved and the syrup simmers, about 3 minutes.
2. Take the pan off the heat, stir in the lavender, cover and steep for 15 minutes.
3. Strain the syrup through a fine sieve into a jar or bottle, pressing on the flowers. Let it cool for 15 minutes.
4. Add the oat milk and the vanilla, close the jar and shake. Refrigerate, and shake again before each use.

Nutrition

Calories:

20

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.

Sweet enough to replace the sugar

Five grams of sugar in a 15-millilitre tablespoon makes the bottle about one third sugar. This copy is made to nearly the same strength, about 4.5 grams per tablespoon, so that two tablespoons sweeten and flavour a cup of coffee. For a creamer that only flavours, halve the sugar and keep the lavender at 1 tablespoon.

Why there is no coconut oil in it

The fat in the bottle is coconut oil. Coconut oil is a white solid below about 77°F, as Wikipedia's article puts it, so stirred into a creamer at home it sets into flecks in the refrigerator. This version leaves it out and is thinner than the bottle; the missing gram of fat per tablespoon is most of the difference in calories. For more body, choose an oat milk whose ingredient list includes oil, such as those labelled barista.

Lavender that does not turn bitter

• Culinary lavender. Buy lavender sold for cooking, not for sachets.
• Fifteen minutes, off the heat. Longer steeping, or boiling the flowers, draws out bitterness.
• The colour. The syrup is pale gold and the creamer beige. A few drops of blueberry juice turn it lilac.

The same syrup, made without the oat milk, goes into the lavender cold foam and the iced lavender matcha.

In hot coffee, iced coffee and lattes

Start with 2 tablespoons in an 8-ounce cup of coffee. For an iced lavender latte, pour 2 shots of espresso over ice and add 3/4 cup of oat milk and 3 tablespoons of the creamer.

The creamer keeps as long as the opened carton of oat milk would: go by the carton, and no longer than a week. Oat milk settles, so shake the jar.

Other oat milk creamers on this site are the Trader Joe's brown sugar oat creamer and the brown sugar shaken espresso creamer.