Homemade Starbucks Pink Drink

on Apr 13, 2024

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Make the Starbucks popular Pink Drink at home. A fruity and refreshing drink made with strawberry flavors and coconut milk, this pretty pink beverage will delight your taste buds and save you a trip to Starbucks.

Starbucks Pink Drink
Recipe Highlights
Ingredient Notes
Step-by-Step Instructions
Expert Tips
Questions You May Have
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Homemade Starbucks Pink Drink Recipe

Starbucks Pink Drink

Pink Drink is a popular Starbucks beverage made with ice, strawberry acai base, coconutmilk (Starbucks coconut milk blend), and freeze-dried strawberries. It’s sweet, fruity, and refreshing.

The Pink Drink at Starbucks contains caffeine in the strawberry acai base but this copycat recipe is caffeine-free.

Recipe Highlights

To get the same Pink Drink taste, a combination of strawberry, passion fruit, and coconut flavors are shaken together.
There’s no need for special machines and all you need is a cocktail shaker or a large jar with a tight lid to make this drink at home.
The recipe makes a grande (16 ounces) Pink Drink.

Ingredient Notes

Strawberry syrup: This is a strawberry puree made into a syrup by adding sugar. This will bring out the strawberry flavor that’s in the drink.
Passion fruit syrup: The secret ingredient that makes the drink taste like the Pink Drink.
White cranberry strawberry juice: The strawberry acai base is a blend of flavors and this juice does a great job creating the fruity flavor. Find it in the bottle juice section of your supermarket.
Coconut milk: Get coconut milk in the refrigerated section instead of the ones sold in cans. The coconut milk in cans are too thick. Starbucks uses a sweetened coconut milk that’s more like coconut water and the refrigerated versions are the most similar.
Freeze-dried strawberries: These add-ins flavor the drink as they rehydrate in the liquid.
Ice: Use filtered water to make ice if possible for a better tasting drink since ice makes up half the beverage.

For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Pink Drink ingredients in a cocktail shaker.

Step 1: Put all ingredients into a cocktail shaker. Shake.

Use a large, wide-mouth jar with a tight lid if you don’t have a cocktail shaker.

Step 2: Pour entire contents of the cocktail shaker into a cup.

Expert Tips

Since the drink uses strawberry syrup, the freeze-dried strawberries are more decorative than for flavoring, so it’s an optional garnishing ingredient and can be taken out. However, it gives the beverage the signature Pink Drink look.
The passion fruit syrup gives the drink a slightly tangy taste and it’s what makes the drink taste like the Pink Drink. You only need a little bit but it makes a big difference.
To make the drink decadent, top it off with strawberry cold foam.

Questions You May Have

What’s in Starbucks strawberry acai base?

Water, Sugar, White Grape Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Natural Green Coffee Flavor, Fruit And Vegetable Juice, and Rebaudioside A makes up the strawberry acai base.

Can I make the drink without coconut milk?

Replace the coconut milk with whatever milk you like! Heavy cream, soy, oat, and almond milk are good substitutes if you don’t like coconut milk but it just won’t taste the same.

How can I customize this drink so it’s like the TikTok Pink Drink?

The Starbucks secret menu TikTok Pink Drink is a customized Pink Drink. To make this at home, replace the coconut milk with heavy cream and add 2 scoops of vanilla bean powder and add whipped cream.

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