Copycat Starbucks Pink Drink
This Copycat Starbucks Pink Drink is a cheaper and just as delicious recipe to make your favorite fruity Starbucks beverage right at home with acai berry tea, coconut milk, white grape juice, simple syrup, and freeze-dried strawberries!
This Copycat Starbucks Pink Drink is a cheaper and just as delicious recipe to make your favorite fruity Starbucks beverage right at home with passion tango tea, coconut milk, white grape juice, simple syrup, and freeze-dried strawberries!
Easy Starbucks Pink Drink
The Pink Drink was quite the social phenomenon a couple of summers ago and isn’t it crazy that people loved and requested it so much from the Starbucks Secret menu that they actually put it on the real menu?!
That just goes to show the power behind social media, eh?
This post is in no way sponsored, I just really LOVE this drink and I’m tired of spending $6 a pop on it so I set out to find a way to make it at home and figured I’d share the recipe with all of you too!
Starbucks Pink Drink Ingredients
The actual Pink Drink from Starbucks is made with their special concoction of green coffee and fruit juices. This is a copycat recipe that mimics the flavor made with easily accessible ingredients.
This recipe uses coconut milk, freeze-dried strawberries, and white grape juice which are actual ingredients in the Starbucks version. But the acai juice and green coffee extract are harder to come by so we’re going to substitute for a delicious Passion Tango Tea.
The closest you’ll get to what they use at Starbucks is the Starbucks VIA Very Berry Refreshers. You can also use Teavana Passion Tango tea which you can for Keurig or traditional tea bags.
I used to only be able to find freeze-dried fruit at Trader Joe’s but now you can buy it at Target and on Amazon and I’ve seen them in a lot of regular grocery stores recently!
How To Make Starbucks Pink Drink
1. Make the refresher according to the package directions or steep the tea in boiling water. Make sure to remove the bags after 5 minutes and then allow it to cool.
2. Once cooled, combine all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake.
3. Pour the Pink Drink into a large glass and enjoy!
I love it when I can make my favorite coffee house drinks right at home! This is so good!!
– Suzy
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- Cranberry Bliss Bars (Starbucks Copycat Recipe) – Dense bars loaded with white chocolate and cranberries!
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Steps
Make the Refresher according to the package directions or steep the tea in the boiling water, make sure to remove the bags after 5 minutes4, and allow to cool.
Once cooled, combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake. I like to slightly crush the strawberries when I add them to the shaker because the powder helps add more strawberry flavor.
Pour the drink into a large glass and enjoy immediately.
Notes
- I like using the Very Berry Hibiscus Refresher, it’s not the same as the Strawberry Acai at Starbucks but it is a nice substitute. You can also use their Passion Tango tea which you can buy in tea bags for iced tea.
- You can skip the simple syrup if you’re trying to cut down on sugar.
- I like to slightly crush some of my freeze-dried strawberries to give more color and flavor to the drink.
- If you steep tea too long than the flavor can change and the tea could taste bitter instead of fruity, so make sure you remove the bags at the 5-minute mark.
- One thing to note about this is the calories. Generally, a grande (16 oz.) pink drink has 140 calories in it, but that’s because when you order it, you’re getting half ice.
- This recipe actually makes 16 ounces of liquid drink and the ice is added on top of it.
- The nutritional information also doesn’t include consuming the freeze-dried strawberries.
- This recipe originally called for an acai tea and the product was no longer yielding delicious results and was turning the drink brown so the recipe has been retested and updated.
Nutrition
- Calories405
- Carbs39g
- Protein3g
- Fat28g
- Saturated fat25g
- Fiber2g
- Sugar36g
- Sodium48mg
Estimates per serving, when a serving size is listed.
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