My Homemade Starbucks Pink Drink Recipe (with LESS sugar!) (2024)

FAQs

Can you get a pink drink sugar free? ›

You can actually order a Starbucks Keto Pink Drink nowadays. Just ask for iced passion tea with no sugar, sugar free vanilla syrup, heavy cream, and ice. I still prefer my homemade dairy-free versions, but it's nice to be able to order one when out as well.

The Starbucks Pink Drink has 25 grams of sugar, whereas our copycat recipe only has 10 grams of sugar. At the end of the viral video, Moro exclaims that the drink is "so easy" and the flavor in comparison is "really hard to tell the difference," so making this refresher at home may be your best choice.

Use TAZO® Passion™ Tea for the most authentic flavour. To make this drink sweeter, add a bit of simple syrup to the glass.

sugar-free syrup, available in Vanilla or Cinnamon Dolce, or our Skinny Mocha Sauce. Try a sweetener substitute such as Sweet'N Low®, Equal®, SPLENDA® or Stevia Blend from Whole Earth.

Is the Starbucks Pink Drink healthy? Well, it's definitely not the least healthy item on the menu. A 16-ounce grande Pink Drink made with coconut milk has 140 calories and contains 2.5 grams of fat and 25 grams of sugar.

For the Pink Drink, baristas would use coconut milk instead of water, which the baristas add to the basic Strawberry Açaí Refresher. Coconut milk's inclusion in the Pink Drink offers the advantage of making it a dairy-free beverage, catering to customers with dietary restrictions or preferences.

One simple way to do this is to order your beverage with the addition of white mocha sauce to give it an even sweeter candy twist. Then, to take it one creamy step further, ask for a topping of Starbucks' signature Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam.

What does Starbucks put in their pink drink? ›

What is the pink drink from Starbucks? This fan favorite is a part of the Refresher line of cold drinks served at the coffee chain. It combines strawberry açai base with coconut milk and freeze-dried strawberries to make a creamy version of the Strawberry Açai Refresher.

The original "pink drink" is made of a strawberry acai tea base with added coconut milk and freeze-dried strawberries. The keto version, however, swaps the base for a Passion Tango iced tea (which contains zero sugar), and adds sugar-free vanilla syrup and a dash of heavy cream.

Ice, Strawberry Acai Base [Water, Sugar, White Grape Juice Concentrate, Citric Acid, Natural Flavors, Natural Green Coffee Flavor, Fruit And Vegetable Juice, Rebaudioside-a], Lemonade [Water, Lemon Juice, Sugar, Lemon Oil], Freeze-dried Strawberries.

Okay, so you gotta order your pink drink, and then what you do is. you actually ask them to make the pink drink with sweet. vanilla cream. And then they're gonna ask you, do you wanna substitute the coconut milk.

Ask for “less whip” or “no whip” • Make it “Skinny:” Most handcrafted espresso and Frappuccino® blended beverages can be requested “skinny,” which means the beverage is made with nonfat milk, no whipped cream and a sugar-free syrup if available.

A "skinny flavored latte" is described as a latte with espresso, steamed nonfat milk and a sugar-free flavored syrup. There are only certain sugar-free flavors though, so ordering a "skinny pumpkin spice" won't get you a sugar-free, but ordering a vanilla or hazelnut, for example, will get you a sugar-free.

Starbucks has discontinued their sugar-free cinnamon dolce syrup and we now only have vanilla in a sugar-free syrup option. This leaves sugar conscious customers - including diabetics and those with other insulin conditions - without any beverage.