search instagram twitter facebook pinterest chevron-right chevron-left email menu cross
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to menu-404 navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Let's Eat Cake

Let's Eat Cake is the lifestyle site for Millennial women. We’re your source for lifestyle, entertainment, fashion, beauty, jokes, puns, food news, coffee trends, and baking recipes.

  • Lifestyle
  • Food + Drink
  • Funny
  • Recipes
  • Entertainment
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • About
  • Subscribe
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Advertise
© 2023 Let's Eat Cake
  • Food + Drink
  • Funny
  • Lifestyle
  • Recipes
Home » Food + Drink » Drinks

10 Ways to Enjoy Starbucks Pink Drink This Summer

By Ashley Hubbard | May 24, 2022 | Updated on July 1, 2022 | Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links that we collect a share of sales from. Click here for more details.
28 shares
Starbucks Pink Drink
Starbucks Pink Drink - Pink Starburst
Starbucks Pink Drink - Ombre Pink Drink
Starbucks Pink Drink - Chocolate Pink Drink
Starbucks Pink Drink - Matcha Pink Drink
Starbucks Pink Drink - Blended Pink Drink

The Starbucks Pink Drink is the coffee chain’s fake-it-til-you-make-it drink. The rags to riches drink. The, “if you build it, they will come” drink.

And no, we’re not being completely dramatic here. The Pink Drink was originally a “secret menu” customer creation after it took off on Instagram in 2016. Makeup artist and beauty YouTuber James Charles helped it gain further popularity, and finally, in 2017, Starbucks added it as an official menu item.Starbucks Pink Drink

The Pink Drink proves we can make corporations bend to our will. Next, we’ll come after that non-dairy milk up-charge. Or maybe we’ve had too many cups of ambition this morning.

In honor of this grassroots feat, here’s everything you need to know about the game-changing Starbucks Pink Drink. 

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Starbucks Coffee ☕ (@starbucks)

 

What Is the Starbucks Pink Drink?

The Starbucks Pink Drink uses the Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refresher base which has hints of passion fruit and açai. But the barista adds coconut milk, instead of water, and tops it off with fresh strawberries, blackberries, or both to add texture, color, and flavor. It does have a teensy tiny bit of caffeine in it, as there’s some green coffee extract in the Refresher base. But we wouldn’t bank on this being a replacement for espresso.

There is some confusing information out there that the Pink Drink is the Strawberry Açaí Starbucks Refresher, but that’s not true. They aren’t often seen in the same place at the same time. Like Batman and Bruce Wayne. No, but really, they’re not the same.

The coconut milk is, of course, what gives the beverage that milky pink shade that Instagram loves so much. We called that Pepto Bismol back in our day, but that was before we had better tasting things to cure hangovers.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Starbucks Coffee ☕ (@starbucks)

 

What Does the Starbucks Pink Drink Taste Like?

According to the official Starbucks description, this drink tastes like a “fruity and refreshing sip of spring.”

People who aren’t on Starbucks’ marketing team compare it to a lighter version of strawberry milk, the yogurt-based Asian beverage Calpico, or even strawberry Starbursts. We guess everyone really does have different taste buds. Just stop hating on our cilantro or our taste in men, okay?
Starbucks Pink Drink - strawberries

 

How to Customize the Starbucks Pink Drink

  • Add cold foam. You can ask for sweet cream cold foam, matcha cold foam, chocolate cream cold foam, or vanilla cold foam.
  • Make it keto-friendly. Order a sugar-free passion iced tea with sugar-free vanilla syrup, heavy cream, and freeze-dried strawberries. 
  • Make it vegan. Surprise! The Pink Drink is vegan as-is. For once, they don’t have to customize anything. Take that, ketos.
  • Order it ‘skinny.’ Order a Venti unsweetened Passion tea with no water. Then, ask for light coconut milk, two pumps of sugar-free vanilla syrup, and two Stevia. Don’t forget the strawberry inclusions and a tip for your barista!

Starbucks Pink Drink - two drinks

 

Starbucks Pink Drink Secret Menu Ideas

1. Matcha Pink Drink

  • Ask for 3 parts Pink Drink.
  • Ask for 1 part of matcha coconut milk on the rocks.
Starbucks Pink Drink - Matcha Pink Drink
Photo Credit: @aleex.eats

 

2. Chocolate Pink Drink

  • Order a Venti Pink Drink.
  • Add vanilla sweet cream cold foam.
  • Ask for 2 pumps of chocolate mocha syrup in the foam.
Starbucks Pink Drink - Chocolate Pink Drink
Photo Credit: @peachyt__

 

3. Ombré Pink Drink

  • Order a Violet Drink or Dragon Drink.
  • Top with Passion Tango Tea.
Starbucks Pink Drink - Ombre Pink Drink
Photo Credit: @xo_joy

 

4. Blended Pink Drink

  • Order a Pink Drink with extra ice and strawberry puree.
  • Ask for it to be double-blended.
Starbucks Pink Drink - Blended Pink Drink
Photo Credit: @mealswithsheils

 

5. Pink Starburst Refresher

  • Order a Venti Pink Drink.
  • Add 2 pumps each of white mocha and vanilla.
Starbucks Pink Drink - Pink Starburst
Photo Credit: @carii.ruano

 

6. Pink and Purple Drink

  • Order a Passion Tango Iced Tea.
  • Add soy milk.
  • Add vanilla syrup.
  • Add 3 scoops of strawberries.
  • Add vanilla sweet cream cold foam with strawberry puree blended into foam

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Amanda 💖 Food & Travel Blogger (@kevinandamanda)

 

7. The Spring Blossom Drink

  • Order a grande Pink Drink.
  • Add 2 pumps of vanilla syrup.
  • Add sweet cream cold foam blended with 1 scoop of matcha and 1 pump of raspberry.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by DAYE. (@dayelasoul)

 

8. Chocolate Covered Strawberry

  • Order the Pink Drink
  • Add Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam
  • Add mocha in the foam

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Keto Starbucks drinks (@starbucksketodrinks)

9. The Material Girl

  • Order a Grande Pink Drink
  • Add strawberry puree
  • Add 3 pumps white mocha
  • Add Vanilla Sweet Cold Foam

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Mermaids and Mocha Starbucks Collector and Reseller (@mermaidsandmocha)

10. Strawberries and Peach

  • Order the Pink Drink
  • Add raspberry syrup
  • Add Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Evelyn (@evelyn_glav)

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Ashley Hubbard
Ashley Hubbard
Ashley Hubbard is a freelance writer and creator. As a Let's Eat Cake contributor, she covers all things related to Starbucks, nails, entertainment news, pop culture trends, and more. Additionally, she regularly writes interview-based celebrity stories for Coping with Cancer magazine and has written for other publications, including Roadtrippers, Greatist, and Healthline. She has also been featured by Impact Travel Alliance as a creative who is transforming travel, and by Matador Network as a vegan travel blogger you should be following on Instagram. 

Ashley is a Nashville unicorn (born, raised, and based), queer, vegan, and dedicated to leaving a positive impact through her life, work, and her website, Wild Hearted. 

When she's not writing, she's traveling, reading a book, trying not to kill her houseplants, worshiping her dog, or having an existential crisis. Follow her on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter, and LinkedIn
Ashley Hubbard
Latest posts by Ashley Hubbard (see all)
  • 101 Funny Jokes That’ll Even Make Your Most Serious Friend Crack A Smile - January 24, 2023
  • Leap Into The Year Of The Rabbit With These Chinese New Year Nails - January 16, 2023
  • 23 Starbucks Secret Menu Drinks To Order Next - January 12, 2023
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links from Amazon and other sites that we collect a share of sales from.
28 shares

Read This Next

Starbucks Cups and Tumblers for Summer 2022 Are Here

Starbucks Cups and Tumblers for Summer 2022 Are Here

25 Starbucks Secret Menu Drinks to Try When You’re Bored with Your Usual

25 Starbucks Secret Menu Drinks to Try When You’re Bored with Your Usual

15 Starbucks Secret Menu Refreshers In Case You Don’t Have a Pool

15 Starbucks Secret Menu Refreshers In Case You Don’t Have a Pool

9 Starbucks Summer Drinks to Try This Season

9 Starbucks Summer Drinks to Try This Season

Reader Interactions

Leave a Comment Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Primary Sidebar

Trending Now

  • Adult Jokes 50 Adult Jokes That We Laughed At Because We’re Very Mature
  • Adult Dirty Jokes 65 Dirty Adult Jokes You Should Text Your Partner
  • Best Dutch Bros Drinks The Best Dutch Bros Drinks To Try The Next Time You Need a Pick Me Up

Footer

  • Categories
  • Food + Drink
  • Funny
  • Travel
  • Lifestyle
  • Recipes
  • More
  • About
  • Contact
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Web Stories
  • Editorial Policy
© 2016–2023 Let's Eat Cake
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
28 shares