2 weeks Ago
It’s beginning to look a lot like winter at Starbucks — and it’s not just the . After and , the chain just its holiday menu, available starting Nov. 7.
A slew of drinks are coming back from years past — like the Peppermint Mocha — but a brand-new cold foam is joining the fold, as well as new and returning holiday treats. Starbucks is also adding Refreshers to its holiday offerings for the first time — a trio of drinks featuring cranberry-orange flavors. This new Refresher features flavors of orange, cranberry and spices (including notes of cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg), and is shaken with ice, water and cranberries.
The new Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Refresher combines the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher with ice, lemonade and cranberries. The new Cran-Merry Drink — a festive take on the — combines the Cran-Merry Refresher with coconut milk and cranberries, and is poured over ice. This drink has now been on Starbucks’ holiday menu for more than two decades.
Available hot, iced or as a Frappuccino, it mixes espresso with steamed milk, mocha sauce, peppermint-flavored syrup, and is topped with whipped cream and dark chocolate curls. This returning drink — available hot, iced and as a Frappuccino — combines espresso with steamed milk, caramel brulée sauce, a swirl of whipped cream and caramel brulée topping. This drink returns with its espresso, steamed milk and flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices.
It is topped with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs, and available hot, iced and as a Frappuccino. This returning drink — available hot, iced or as a Frappuccino — features sugar cookie-flavored syrup mixed with blonde espresso, ice and almond milk, and is topped with red and green sprinkles. Back again this year, this drink combines chai spices, oat milk and ice and is finished with nondairy gingerbread-flavored cold foam and a spice topping.
Customers can enjoy a variety of new and returning flavors of cold foams this holiday season, which can be made nondairy and added as a customization for an additional charge to give any drink a festive twist. Washington, D.C.
native Joseph Lamour is a lover of food: its past, its present and the science behind it. With food, you can bring opposites together to form a truly marvelous combination, and he strives to take that sentiment to heart in all that he does..
