Homemade Starbucks Pink Drink

This homemade Starbucks pink drink gives you all the flavor of the store bought drink without all the cost of a store bought drink. Plus you can customize how much sweetness you desire.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 15

Cooling Time 30

Total Time 1

Servings drinks

Ingredients

For pink drink:

2 cups white grape juice
1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
2 tablespoons strawberry simple syrup *see recipe below
1/2 cup sliced strawberries fresh

For strawberry simple syrup:

1-1/2 cups diced strawberries
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water

Instructions

For pink drink:

In a pitcher add white grape juice, unsweetened coconut milk, and strawberry simple syrup.
Stir to combine, taste, add more strawberry simple syrup if desire.
To serve, pour over ice and garnish with fresh berries.

For strawberry simple syrup:

To a medium-sized saucepot add diced strawberries, granulated sugar and water. Stir to gently combine.
Set over medium heat and bring to a simmer and cook until the strawberries are mushy and the syrup has thickened, about 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat and let cool, about 30 minutes.
Over a fine mesh strainer, strain the simple syrup, add to an airtight container or jar and keep in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Notes

The sweetness level of this drink can easily be customized to your liking. I'm using a simple syrup here, but you could replace it with zero-calorie sweetener (Splenda, Sweet N'Low, Equal, etc.) or use something more natural like honey or agave. What you use may change the flavor slightly.
You can add freeze-dried strawberries instead of fresh ones if you like them better.
I'm using unsweetened coconut milk, but use sweetened if you like a sweeter drink.
Feel free to use vanilla-flavored coconut milk to add a slight vanilla flavor to your drink. It pairs lovely with the juice.
Instead of white grape juice, you could use white cranberry juice.
This recipe was updated and changed on 01/12/2024. I did this to update the options since this was originally posted years ago. The OG recipe is as follows:
- 4 packs acai berry tea
- 1 cup hot boiling water
- 1/2 cup white grape juice
- 1-2 cups unsweetened coconut milk
- Fresh sliced strawberries
- Agave syrup
- In a 2 cup glass measuring cup add unwrapped tea packets. Pour hot water over the packets and let sit until cool. Squeeze out tea packets and toss.
- Pour white grape juice into the measuring cup with the tea.
- Fill a glass with ice and add about 1 cup of the tea/grape juice mixture. Top off with the desired amount of coconut milk.
- Add in sliced strawberries and add in sweetener if desired.

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Course Drinks

Cuisine American

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