This site has been around long enough to witness Paris Hilton’s previous rise to fame. I’m not entirely sure why she’s back in the spotlight, but her return has introduced us to two new coffee creamers: International Delight’s Paris Hilton Cotton Candy Cold Foam Creamer and a Raspberry Champagne liquid coffee creamer. I don’t have Paris Hilton’s wealth, so I could only afford one of them. Given that cotton candy could have the least favorable outcome, I decided to pick that one up.
In the history of coffee creamers, this would be only the second cotton candy-flavored one. I’m no creamer historian, but the first appears to be a non-dairy liquid one from Nutpods. To be honest, I’m surprised International Delight or Coffee mate haven’t had a cotton candy-flavor previously. It seems like low-hanging fruit. But it’s now here in cold foam form, and it’s probably not for everyone.
As expected, the foam comes in Glinda pink. It doesn’t look right sitting atop black coffee. It’s like Care-a-Lot fell out of the sky and crash-landed on a bog. But once the cold foam hits the coffee, it slowly begins to cascade down the sides of whatever drinking receptacle you put it in, creating something slightly more fascinating to watch than grass growing. As you can see below, I went with my usual iced coffee glass.
As someone who puts enough creamer in their iced coffees to make addition required to figure out serving size, I only somewhat liked it when I put in enough in my coffee to completely mask the coffee’s taste by mixing the two really well. With my usual French Vanilla or Hazelnut creamers, I like having some of the coffee flavor come through because it complements them, but that’s not the case with this cold foam. It smells great, and its taste reminds me of cotton candy, but I don’t think it matches well with coffee because there’s too much of a flavor contrast between them.
However, with its sweet, somewhat fruity candy flavor, it might pair better with non-coffee iced drinks, especially fruity ones, such as sparkling water, homemade Starbucks Refreshers, or homemade Dunkin’ Refreshers. Because I don’t have Hilton money to purchase the previously mentioned beverages, I topped a glass of Crystal Light lemonade I had in the kitchen with it. While not an ideal drink to use, I did enjoy the foamy creamer more with the sugar free lemonade drink mix.
International Delight Paris Hilton Cotton Candy Cold Foam Creamer may not work very well with coffee. But it seems to be better with non-coffee beverages. Heck, you don’t even have to use it with beverages. Top your vanilla ice cream. Make a Jello parfait. Spray a cold foam mustache on your face and use your tongue to get it all off. The possibilities are endless. Okay, not endless because it’ll definitely end at coffee. Also, if you spray some into your mouth, you’ll have to deal with a weird aftertaste. So, it’ll also end after that.
Purchased Price: $6.99
Size: 14 oz can
Purchased at: Target
Rating: 5 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2 tbsp) 20 calories, 1 gram of fat, 0 grams of saturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 0 milligrams of sodium, 3 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of fiber, 3 grams of sugar (including 3 grams of added sugar), and 0 grams of protein.
yeah this is probably more enjoyable as part of the “dirty” drinks trend… there are a lot of creamers lately that aren’t bad on their own but don’t make much sense with coffee