How to Make Starbucks’ Secret Pink Drink at Home

Starbucks’ new secret menu item called the Pink Drink is taking social media by storm. Made with a Strawberry Açai Refresher that subs coconut milk for water and your choice of strawberry or blackberry pieces, the drink boasts a creamy baby pink hue. It’s bursting with a fruity, tangy flavor and full of antioxidants and caffeine that increase your energy level, but not your waistline.

This drink is the perfect compliment for all those summer instas to come. Best of all, we figured out how to recreate it at home. So if you hate standing on line at Starbucks, and who doesn’t, now you can be your own barista and get your pink on all summer long.

Starbucks’ Secret Pink Drink

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time: 10 minutesTotal time: 10 minutesServings:1 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup boiling water
• 2 açai green tea bags (made by The Republic of Tea)
• Honey, to taste
• 4 strawberries, sliced
• 2 teaspoon lemon juice, to taste
• Ice
• 1 cup coconut milk

Instructions

1. 
   

   Put the tea bags in a glass filled 1/4 of the way with boiling water. Steep for 7 minutes.

2. 
   

   Stir in some honey.

3. 
   

   Take out the tea bags.

4. 
   

   Add half the strawberries and lemon juice.

5. 
   

   Ice it up.

6. 
   

   Fill with coconut milk and stir.

7. 
   

   Top with the rest of the strawberries.

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