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Starbucks copycat pink drink is just as delicious as their coffee, so you might want to find out how to prepare a homemade Starbucks pink drink at home to save yourself a trip to the coffee shop and a few dollars. It’s so easy to make the pink drink at home and it tastes just like the Starbucks version. You only need three ingredients to make it and a couple of minutes.
The fruity flavors of strawberry and acai blend with the exotic taste of coconut milk and the result is a truly mouthwatering copycat Starbucks pink drink.
Also try gluten-free sugar cookies, Starbucks style cheese Danish, Starbucks banana bread or one of these Starbucks sugar-free drinks.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy: There’s nothing hard about making this pink drink at home. You simply need to combine a few ingredients together and the prep time is minimal.
Customizable: You can change the ingredients or flavors however you wish, adjust the sweetness and experiment with different add-ins.
Delicious: Anyone who loves the sensational taste of strawberries is going to love this pink drink. It’s fresh-flavored, refreshing, creamy, and sweet, all at the same time.
Pink Drink Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Strawberry acai juice: For lots of flavor (get it here) or white cranberry strawberry juice (here).
Coconut milk: Adds tropical flair.
Freeze dried strawberries: For color and flavor (get some here).
Strawberry syrup: For the optional foam topping (here).
Sweet cream: Also for the foam topping.
Restaurant recipes like this are well worth making and you’ll find this one remarkably close in looks and flavor to the Starbucks version.
How to Make a Starbucks Pink Drink
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Shake the ingredients together: Put the freeze dried strawberries (reserve a few for a garnish) in a cocktail shaker with the strawberry acai juice and coconut milk, and give it a good shake.
Pour the drink: Fill serving glasses with ice and then strain the strawberry acai mixture over it.
Make the cold foam topping: Whisk or stir to combine the strawberry syrup with cream and then pour this on top.
The finishing touches: Garnish the pink drink recipe with reserved freeze dried strawberries and serve immediately.
Substitutions and Variations
Strawberry syrup: If you don’t have strawberry syrup to make this copycat pink drink, you can use simple syrup in its place. The foam topping is optional anyway, so leave it off altogether if you prefer.
Sweet cream: You can use sweetened coconut milk or condensed milk instead of sweet cream, or try another kind of milk in place of creamy coconut milk for this strawberry coconut drink.
Freeze dried strawberries: Don’t use fresh strawberries because they’re much heavier than freeze dried strawberries and will sink through the pink drink! Fresh sliced strawberries would look pretty as a garnish on the rim of the glass though.
Tea bags: For a different flavor, you can use passion fruit Tazo tea bags to make tea and use that as the basis of your pink drink.
Different flavors: White grape juice would also work or white cranberry strawberry juice and you could even add some extras such as green coffee extract or a splash of whatever kind of fruit juice you have in the fridge.
Serving Suggestions
As a sweet treat: This versatile pink drink can be served in a tall glass with any kind of snack or meal or you can just whip this wonderful homemade version up in the afternoon if you’re feeling thirsty. Try it with lemon pizzelle.
With other Starbucks faves: You might like to try some other Starbucks copycat recipes though, perhaps spinach and feta wraps, cherry oat bars or these cranberry bliss bars.
How to Store this Starbucks Pink Drink
Store: Pink drink leftovers should be refrigerated and served as soon as possible. Since this drink is best served as soon as it’s made you’ll probably want to make it fresh each time, especially since it only takes a few minutes anyway.
Freeze: Don’t freeze this because the ingredients will all separate.
Top Tips
Shake thoroughly: Shake the drink well. You want to ensure everything is well combined.
Adjust to taste: You can make the drink sweeter or less sweet, if you like.
Enjoy immediately: As the drink sits, the ingredients will start to separate, so serve it right away.
Homemade Starbucks Pink Drink FAQs
Although this copycat Starbucks pink drink recipe uses coconut milk in the pink drink and dairy cream in the foam topping, you can use your preferred kind of milk and cream to personalize the drink. You can also choose between full fat coconut milk and light coconut milk.
Freeze dried strawberries and other freeze dried fruits have gone through a process to remove almost every last drop of moisture. The fruit retains nutrients and flavor and develops a light, crisp texture. According to some manufacturers, an unopened container of freeze dried fruit can last up to 30 years! Freeze dried fruit features in candy bars, baked goods, trail mix, granola, and drink recipes.
Copycat Starbucks Pink Drink Recipe
Equipment
- Cocktail Shaker
Ingredients
- 1 Cup strawberry juice, strawberry acai or white cran strawberry
- ¼ Cup freeze-dried strawberries
- ½ Cup coconut milk
- ice
For the Strawberry Cold Foam:
- 1 Tablespoons strawberry syrup
- 1 Tablespoons sweet cream
- 3 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Fill 2 serving glasses with ice.
- Add the freeze-dried strawberries, strawberry acai juice and coconut milk to a cocktail shaker and shake for 10 to 15 seconds.
- Strain the shaker over the ice in the glasses, leaving a little room on top for the strawberry foam.
- Whisk the strawberry syrup, sweet cream and heavy whipping cream until thick.
- Pour the strawberry foam on top of the pink drink and garnish with some freeze-dried strawberries.
Notes
Adjust to taste: You can make the drink sweeter or less sweet, if you like.
Enjoy immediately: As the drink sits, the ingredients will start to separate, so serve it right away.
Nutrition
Once you know how to make Starbucks copycat pink drink, you’ll want to make the drink often. It is one of my favorite Starbucks drinks! This really is a thirst-quenching beverage and you can tweak the recipe depending what ingredients you have on hand, how sweet you want it to be and so on. This tastes just like the Starbucks pink drink but comes without the coffee shop price tag!
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
I was in a hurry so I used canned passion tea and it turned out even better than the Starbucks pink drink! Thank you for saving me money!
I’m excited to try this, but should I use coconut milk from the can or in the carton in the refrigerator section? Thanks!
Hi Yvette, you can use either one, but the canned kind is usually used more in cooking (making soups, curries and so on, as it’s thicker) and the refrigerated kind in cartons is more often used for recipes such as this Pink Drink. I’d recommend the refrigerated carton for this recipe if you want it as close to the Starbucks version as possible. Enjoy!
Such an easy recipe and looks absolutely gorgeous. I am going to make it the coming weekend.
This was even better than Starbuck’s! Thank you for another winner in our books. 🙂
I LOVED this copycat pink drink . . it’s just such a feel good, light refresher . . . and I’m thrilled at how much money I’ll be saving making it at home!
Oh yes, from now I don’t have to visit Starbucks, I can make it all by myself in my kitchen. By the way, I love all your Starbucks Copycat recipes.
Can’t believe how good this was! Will be making it every day now