Easy recreation of the popular Starbucks iced drink made in just 2 minutes with 4 ingredients. Skip Starbucks and make this perfectly sweet and refreshing drink at home!
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Recipe Highlights
- Starbucks Iced Vanilla Latte is a cold coffee drink made with espresso, ice, milk, and vanilla syrup. It’s a customization of an Iced Latte by flavoring and sweetening it with vanilla syrup.
- This copycat drink recreates the Starbucks recipe using Starbucks espresso roast. Store-bought or homemade vanilla syrup can be used.
- This recipe makes a grande (16 ounces) Iced Vanilla Latte.
- Espresso made in an espresso machine or a Nespresso will give you the best results.
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Ingredient Notes
- Espresso
Starbucks makes this drink with their signature espresso, so use their espresso roast.
Whole beans: Starbucks Espresso Roast
Nespresso Original: Starbucks Espresso Roast
Nespresso Vertuo: Espresso Roast - Vanilla Syrup
Use store-bought or homemade vanilla syrup. Making it at home is highly recommend since it’s easy to make in just 5 minutes. - Milk
Starbucks makes all their lattes with 2% milk but you can use any kind of milk you like. - Ice
Use filtered water to make ice if possible.
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Step-by-Step Instructions
For full ingredients and instructions, scroll down to the recipe.
- Pour espresso into a cup.
- Add vanilla syrup.
- Add milk.
- Top drink with ice.
Expert Tips
- Homemade vanilla syrup can be made ahead of time. Make a batch and use it to make several Iced Vanilla Lattes.
- Instead of homemade, you can get vanilla syrup directly from Starbucks by going to any of their locations and asking if they have any vanilla syrup available for purchase. They’ll sell it to you if they have enough in stock. It should cost around $14.
- Customize the drink by topping the drink with Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam!
Questions You May Have
Starbucks makes this drink with the same 4 ingredients that’s in this copycat recipe: ice, 2% milk, 2 shots of espresso, and 4 pumps of vanilla syrup in a grande.
For a drink to be a latte, it needs to be made with espresso. You can use strong coffee or cold brew but it won’t have the same taste as using espresso.
Starbucks iced drinks are half ice. So a grande 16 ounce drink has 8 ounces of ice.
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- Starbucks Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam Copycat
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Starbucks Iced Vanilla Latte Copycat
INGREDIENTS
- 2 espresso shots
- ¼ cup vanilla syrup
- ⅔ cup 2% milk
- 1 cup ice
INSTRUCTIONS
- Pour espresso, vanilla syrup, milk into a cup.
- Add ice.
NOTES
- Espresso made in an espresso machine or a Nespresso will give you the best results.
- Starbucks makes this drink with their signature espresso, so use their espresso roast: Whole beans: Starbucks Espresso Roast, Nespresso Original: Starbucks Espresso Roast, Nespresso Vertuo: Espresso Roast
- Starbucks makes all their lattes with 2% milk but you can use any kind of milk you like.
- Homemade vanilla syrup can be made ahead of time. Make a batch and use it to make several Iced Vanilla Lattes.
- Instead of homemade, you can get vanilla syrup directly from Starbucks by going to any of their locations and asking if they have any vanilla syrup available for purchase. They’ll sell it to you if they have enough in stock. It should cost around $14.
- Customize the drink by topping the drink with Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam!
Should the espresso roast bean be set to grind for course or fine?
Hi Jennifer, for espresso, the coffee beans should always be a fine grind.
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