Starbucks Pink Drink Copycat Recipe

This easy at-home dupe of the famous Starbucks pink drink is perfectly sweet and deliciously light. Made with 3 simple (and budget-friendly!) ingredients, plus an optional boost of natural caffeine to help you get your day started off right. Skip the coffee shop and mix up your very own viral pink drink any time you want!

For a full Starbucks-at-home morning, pair your pink drink with a slice of this gluten-free lemon pound cake!

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🍓 What Makes This Recipe So Good

• This simple pink drink recipe invokes all the deliciousness of the Starbucks classic using as few as 3 ingredients. It’s a much more wallet-friendly version of the original, and you can still make it in tall, grande, venti, or trenta if you want.
• The OG version of the pink drink combines a base of strawberry, passion fruit, and açai with coconut milk and freeze-dried strawberries. Our recipe differs slightly, replacing the passion fruit and açai with a white cran-strawberry juice that tastes super similar but is generally much easier to find in-store.
• A touch of green coffee bean extract gives this drink a boost of natural caffeine, which is typical of the coffee shop version. If you want a caffeine-free option, though, simply skip the extract!

👩🏼‍🍳 Chef’s Tips

• Be sure to let the freeze-dried strawberries and cran-strawberry juice mingle for a few minutes. The strawberries will infuse the juice with a boost of strawberry flavor that really has a big impact on the overall pink drink!
• Passion tea and green tea would both be tasty additions to this creamy refresher. You can use freshly brewed tea or bottled cold tea, whichever you prefer. Starbucks also offers a Tazo passion tea concentrate that’s available at most grocery stores, which will give you the most of that citrusy hibiscus flavor.
• A pink drink is best when it’s fresh, but you can combine the juice, green coffee bean extract, and freeze-dried strawberries ahead of time if you like. This is a great option if you prefer your drinks super cold! Then when you’re ready, just divvy it up into serving glasses and top it with cold coconut milk.
• If you like a really sweet pink drink, you can add a little simple syrup, flavored syrup (like Torani syrups), or a liquid sweetener. Just be careful not to overdo it. The ingredients are already on the sweeter side, so it’s easy to push the mixture over the sugary edge.

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Recipe By: Cheryl Malik

5 from 12 votes

Starbucks Pink Drink Copycat Recipe

Prep 10 minutes minutes

Cook 0 minutes minutes

Total 10 minutes minutes

An easy homemade version of that famous Starbucks drink, with a boost of natural caffeine and a punch of strawberry flavor.

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Equipment

• large measuring cup
• Wooden spoon or silicone spatula
• 2 Serving glasses

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 cup Ocean Spray white cran-strawberry juice
• ▢ ½ teaspoon liquid green coffee bean extract optional
• ▢ ⅓ cup freeze-dried strawberries
• ▢ ice crushed or cubed
• ▢ 1 cup sweetened coconut milk from a carton; original or vanilla flavor

Instructions

• Pour 1 cup Ocean Spray white cran-strawberry juice into large measuring cup. Add ½ teaspoon liquid green coffee bean extract and stir to incorporate.
• Add ⅓ cup freeze-dried strawberries. Stir to incorporate, then set aside 2 to 4 minutes to allow strawberries to infuse.
• Add desired amounts of ice to serving glasses, then pour equal amounts of prepared juice mixture over ice.
• Top each glass with half of 1 cup sweetened coconut milk. Serve, stirring coconut milk into juice before drinking.

• Strawberries: Fresh strawberries will work instead of freeze-dried, but they won’t give the drink as much strawberry flavor. If you want to use fresh strawberries, I recommend muddling them in the bottom of the measuring cup before adding the juice.

Nutrition Info

Approximate Information for One Serving

Serving Size: 1 drinkCalories: 284calProtein: 4gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 20mgPotassium: 930mgTotal Carbs: 64gFiber: 12gSugar: 46gAdded Sugars: 12gNet Carbs: 52gVitamin C: 404mgCalcium: 149mgIron: 3mg

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Number of total servings shown is approximate. Actual number of servings will depend on your preferred portion sizes.

Nutritional values shown are general guidelines and reflect information for 1 serving using the ingredients listed, not including any optional ingredients. Actual macros may vary slightly depending on specific brands and types of ingredients used.

To determine the weight of one serving, prepare the recipe as instructed. Weigh the finished recipe, then divide the weight of the finished recipe (not including the weight of the container the food is in) by the desired number of servings. Result will be the weight of one serving.

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