See how easy it is to make the popular TikTok Starbucks Iced White Mocha with sweet cream foam and extra caramel drizzle at home.
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TikTok Starbucks Iced White Mocha
TikTok made this Starbucks Iced White Mocha with sweet cream foam and extra caramel drizzle wildly popular.
It’s a Starbucks secret menu item, which means it’s a customized drink, and it’s not on the official menu so you can’t order it by name.
This caffeinated drink is made with espresso, white chocolate sauce, milk, caramel sauce, and ice. The drink is topped off with a homemade vanilla sweet cream foam.
Recipe Highlights
- This is a Starbucks copycat recipe. It recreates the Starbucks secret menu drink and it makes a grande size (16 ounce) Iced White Mocha.
- Homemade cold foam for this drink is made in seconds using a French press.
- To make this drink, you’ll need an espresso machine or a Nespresso.
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Ingredient Notes
- Espresso: Use Starbucks espresso or any dark roasted coffee.
Whole beans: Starbucks Espresso Roast
Nespresso Original: Starbucks Espresso Roast
Nespresso Vertuo: Espresso Roast - White chocolate sauce: This is the key ingredient that turns an espresso drink with milk into a white chocolate mocha. It flavors and sweetens the drink.
- Milk: Starbucks uses 2% milk to make their Iced White Mochas, but you can use any milk you like.
- Ice: Use filtered water to make ice if possible since it’ll taste better than ice made with tap water.
- Half & half: This is used to make the sweet cream cold foam.
- Vanilla syrup: Starbucks uses vanilla syrup to flavor their sweet cream cold foams. You can use store-bought or homemade vanilla syrup.
- Caramel sauce: To line the inside of the cup with caramel drizzle.
For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: Combine half & half and vanilla syrup in a French press. Place lid and move the plunger up and down to make cold foam.
Set aside.
Step 2: Put white chocolate sauce, espresso, and milk into a cocktail shaker. Shake. Use 2 Nespresso espresso pods or pull 2 shots from an espresso machine. If you don’t have a cocktail shaker, use a jar with a tight lid.
Step 3: Drizzle inside of a cup with caramel sauce. Add ice. Use a spoon to add caramel to the inside of the cup.
Step 4: Pour drink into the cup. Top with cold foam.
Using a Nespresso
Starbucks copycat drinks are easily made at home using a Nespresso machine.
1 shot of espresso = 1 Nespresso espresso capsule
To make this TikTok drink, you’ll need 2 Nespresso espresso capsules or 1 double espresso capsule.
You can use any Nespresso capsule you like, but go for the Starbucks Nespresso capsules if you want it to taste as close to Starbucks as possible.
Even though this drink is made with espresso roast at Starbucks, try it with the Starbucks Nespresso Blonde Espresso capsules instead.
The Blonde Espresso capsules are better reviewed and more popular.
Expert Tips
- If you don’t have a way to make espresso, use instant coffee. Combine 1 tablespoon of instant coffee and ¼ cup hot water to replace the 2 shots of espresso in the recipe.
- Cold foam can be made using a French press or a handheld milk frother but the French does a better job of creating luscious foam.
- Cold foam can also be made in an electric milk frother that has a cold foam setting.
- You can use sweetened condensed milk if you don’t have white chocolate sauce.
- The vanilla sweet cream cold foam is made using vanilla syrup, but if you don’t have any, sweeten the half & half with 2 teaspoons of sugar.
- Make homemade vanilla syrup ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator. It’s so easy to make with just 3 ingredients and takes 5 minutes.
Questions You May Have
They’re the same thing! Iced White Mocha is just a shortened way of saying Iced White Chocolate Mocha.
Yes! It would technically be an Iced Blonde White Mocha. If you don’t like the strong, bitter taste of coffee but want caffeine, make this drink using blonde espresso, which has a smoother coffee taste but contains more caffeine than drinks made with espresso or dark roast.
A tall (12 ounces) is made with just 1 shot of espresso, a grande (16 ounces) has 2 espresso shots, and a venti has 3 espresso shots.
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- TikTok Iced White Mocha (Starbucks Secret Menu)
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- Starbucks Iced Latte Copycat
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TikTok Starbucks Iced White Mocha Copycat
INGREDIENTS
Iced White Mocha
- 2 tablespoons white chocolate sauce
- 2 capsules Nespresso espresso (or 2 espresso shots)
- ½ cup 2% milk
- 1 tablespoon caramel sauce
- 1 cup ice
Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam
- ⅓ cup half & half
- 1 tablespoon vanilla syrup
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine half & half and vanilla syrup in a French press. Place lid and move the plunger up and down 40 times to make cold foam. Set aside.
- Put white chocolate sauce, espresso, and milk into a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously 10 times.Use 2 Nespresso espresso pods or pull 2 shots from an espresso machine. If you don’t have a cocktail shaker, use a jar with a tight lid.
- Drizzle inside of a cup with caramel sauce. Add ice.Use a spoon to add caramel to the inside of the cup.
- Pour drink into the cup. Top with vanilla sweet cream cold foam.
EQUIPMENT
NOTES
- 1 shot of espresso = 1 Nespresso espresso capsule
- To make a 16 ounce (grande) Starbucks drink, you’ll need 2 Nespresso espresso or ristretto capsules. You can also use 1 Vertuo double espresso.
- With the Vertuo machine capsules, only use espresso capsules and not the coffee capsules that make 7.77 ounces.
- Starbucks uses 2% milk to make their Iced White Mochas, but you can use any milk you like.
- If you don’t have a way to make espresso, use instant coffee. Combine 1 tablespoon of instant coffee and ¼ cup hot water to replace the 2 shots of espresso in the recipe.
- Cold foam can be made using a French press or a handheld milk frother but the French does a better job of creating luscious foam.
- You can use sweetened condensed milk if you don’t have white chocolate sauce.
- The vanilla sweet cream cold foam is made using vanilla syrup, but if you don’t have any, sweeten the half & half with 2 teaspoons of sugar.
- Make homemade vanilla syrup ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator. It’s so easy to make with just 3 ingredients and takes 5 minutes.