Last Updated on March 10, 2023 by brewthatcoffee
Searching for the best strawberry Starbucks drinks to quench your thirst? Here are our favorites from the regular and fan-made secret menu.
Starbucks drinks (especially the secret menu items) are a continually growing favorite with trending social media posts. As a universally loved flavor and one of the popular options for some of the best drinks at Starbucks, below are 20 strawberry options to try.
- Strawberry Acai Refresher
- Strawberry Acai Lemonade
- Strawberry Crème Frappuccino
- Pink Drink
- Strawberry Shortcake Frappuccino
- Strawberry Limeade
- Strawberry Express Frappuccino
- Strawberry Cold Foam Iced Coffee
- Strawberry Mango Refresher
- And more …
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Top 20 Strawberry Starbucks Drinks, Ranked (Regular & Secret Menu)
1. Strawberry Acai Refresher
Unsurprisingly, one of Starbucks’ strawberry drinks from their standard menu is one of the best. It is the perfect refresher to give you a pick-me-up.
Menu: Regular
Ingredients: Water, sugar, white grape juice concentrate, natural green coffee flavor, freeze-dried strawberries, ice, and strawberry pieces.
Calories: 100
Sugar Content: 21g
Caffeine Content: 45mg
Tip: Request a splash of coconut milk or replace the water or choose a green or tea instead of water.
2. Strawberry Acai Lemonade
Starbucks’ standard menu, strawberry acai lemonade, is a modification of the acai refresher. The lemonade adds extra tang and flavor with a hint of freshness.
Menu: Regular
Ingredients: Water, sugar, acai juice concentrates, lemonade with lemon oil, freeze-dried strawberries, and ice.
Calories: 140
Sugar Content: 32g
Caffeine Content: 45mg
Tip: Ask for strawberry puree at the bottom of the cup for a more potent strawberry flavor, or request some freeze-dried lemons or limes in the drink.
3. Strawberry Crème Frappuccino
Starbucks has to offer refresher with milk for those who prefer, and it quickly made its way to the customer favorites. The best part is it tastes like dessert.
Menu: Regular
Ingredients: Ice, milk, strawberry puree, vanilla whipped cream, classic syrup
Calories: 370
Sugar Content: 51g
Caffeine Content: 0mg
Tip: Substitute whole milk for oat, almond, coconut, or soy milk and request strawberry cream cold foam instead of whipped cream.
4. Pink Drink
The pink drink has been doing its trendy rounds, and people love it. It is a deliciously refreshing, cooling summer drink and has the perfect blend of sweetness and subtleness.
Menu: Regular
Ingredients: Ice, strawberry acai base, coconut milk, freeze-dried strawberries
Calories: 140
Sugar Content: 25g
Caffeine Content: 45mg
Tip: Substitute coconut milk with soy, oat, almond, or whole milk if you prefer. Ask for a pump of strawberry puree for more flavor.
5. Strawberry Shortcake Frappuccino
If you took your strawberry shortcake and put it into a cup, you would get this delicious light and fluffy Frappuccino from Starbucks.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Grande white mocha Frappuccino with a pump of toffee nut syrup. Request extra strawberry puree at the bottom of the cup, top with whipped cream, and freeze-dried strawberries.
Tip: Choose non-dairy milk and ask for fresh sliced strawberries instead of freeze-dried. Request a drizzle of strawberry puree on the top if desired.
6. Strawberry Limeade
If you love the hint of tang with sweetness, the strawberry limeade will satisfy all your cravings.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Strawberry acai base to the bottom line of the cup, no water, ½ lime refresher, and ½ lemonade to the second line with ice.
Tip: Request some fresh strawberry and lime slices.
7. Strawberry Express Frappuccino
When you want dessert and caffeine to help you stay awake halfway through the day, try this lip-smacking drink with a combination of sweetness and enough caffeine to satisfy your tastebuds and keep your eyes open.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Strawberries and crème Frappuccino, with 2 pumps of Frappuccino roast and extra strawberry puree.
Tip: Request alternate milk that is dairy free as you prefer.
8. Strawberry Cold Foam Iced Coffee
Cold foam iced coffee is a classic favorite, but adding some strawberry flavor gives you a sense of luxury and happiness that is more than just coffee.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Cold brew with vanilla sweet-cream cold foam. Ask for 2 pumps of white mocha and 2 pumps of strawberry puree blended into the cold foam.
Tip: Switch to oat or almond milk for a dairy-free option, or request whipped cream on top for a more luxurious experience.
9. Strawberry Mango Refresher
Strawberry and mango together are like a beach in a cup. It is the perfect refreshing drink with a caffeine kick for something sweet and light.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get half strawberry acai, half water with 3 pumps of mango syrup and ice.
Tip: Instead of water, choose a black or green tea and add some freeze-dried strawberry and mango pieces.
10. Strawberry Sunset Refresher
This drink does not only taste like happiness, but you can take it to get those perfect sunset pictures for Instagram.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Strawberry acai to the first line of the cup and water to the third with 1 pump mango syrup, q pump peach syrup. Fizz the drink and add ice.
Tip: There is no need for the fizz if you prefer to avoid that or your Starbucks doesn’t have a Fizzio machine.
11. Strawberry Matcha Latte
If you love a matcha and want that slight caffeine kick, try this combination of Starbucks’ popular pink drink with a matcha latte. It makes this beautiful pastel layered drink, and it is life-changing, as the posts about it on social media say.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Pink drink with sweet cream cold foam and a scoop of matcha blended into the foam.
Tip: Switch the coconut milk for another milk of preference in the pink drink. Add some freeze-dried strawberry pieces as a topping.
12. Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cold Brew
Nothing goes together like chocolate and strawberries. That’s why this chocolate-covered strawberry drink is taking the stand. Perfect on a date, for Valentine’s Day, or any hot summer’s day when the cravings get wild. It is also known as a Valentine Cold Brew.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Cold brew with sweet cream cold foam and mocha to the cold foam. Request strawberry puree in the cold foam. Ask for chocolate curls, cookies, or fresh strawberry slices as toppings.
Tip: Request a white mocha instead of a regular one in the cold foam.
13. Blended Strawberry Lemonade
Another option from the Starbucks standard menu, this blended strawberry lemonade, will make you question why you have never tried it before.
Menu: Regular
Ingredients: Ice, lemonade, crème Frappuccino Syrup, strawberry puree sauce
Calories: 190
Sugar Content: 45g
Caffeine Content: 0mg
Tip: Request half lemonade and half lemon or green tea. Take some fresh lemon and strawberry slices in the drink.
14. Upside Down Refresher
The perfect refresher to cool you down and pick you up. The delicious blend of mango dragon fruit and strawberries gives you a delightful combination and transports you to a tropical island where only good things happen.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Mango dragon fruit base with ice and vanilla sweet cream cold foam and strawberry puree in the cold foam.
Tip: Ask for strawberry puree at the bottom of the cup and some fresh strawberries with dragon fruit.
15. Strawberries And Sweet Cream
What is better than eating dessert? Drinking your dessert! If you have a sweet tooth and enjoy strawberries and cream, get your fix in a cup from Starbucks the next time you order.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Strawberry acai refresher with no water and light strawberry puree with regular sweet cream.
Tip: Get fresh or freeze-dried strawberry pieces in the drink. And an extra pump of strawberry puree in the bottom of the cup.
16. Dirty Strawberry Frappuccino
This one will have you licking your lips and wishing you had more. It is the perfect drink for a sweet tooth, filled with chocolate, strawberry flavors, and espresso. It is the ideal sweet drink with a caffeine kick.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get a strawberry and crème Frappuccino with whole milk and a crème base syrup.
Add vanilla bean powder, java chips, white mocha, classic syrup, and a shot of espresso with ice and whipped cream.
Tip: Choose a mocha drizzle with your topping with cinnamon dolce sprinkles.
17. Strawberry Sour Patch Kids Drink
If you love sour patch kids and want to relive your childhood memories in a drink, order this refresher and enjoy it as an adult with caffeine.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get a strawberry acai lemonade with 2 pumps of classic and raspberry syrup each. Take a splash of passion tea on the top.
Tip: Take a pump of strawberry puree instead of classic syrup.
18. Santa Claus Frappuccino
If you love a little sprinkle of the holiday vibe throughout the year, get this Santa Claus red and white Frappuccino from Starbucks and celebrate Christmas any time.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get a vanilla bean crème Frappuccino and ask the barista to put a layer of strawberry puree at the bottom, then pour in the frappe halfway. Add another layer of strawberry puree, fill the rest of the cup with the frappe, and top with whipped cream and red Santa sprinkles.
Tip: Request a pump of mocha in the frappe if you want it caffeinated.
19. The Red Starburst
Starburst candies are a popular favorite. Now you can enjoy the flavors in a drink from Starbucks and avoid the cavities from the chewy candy.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get a blended strawberry lemonade and 2 scoops of vanilla bean powder. Add 2 pumps of raspberry syrup.
Tip: Request freeze-dried strawberries and raspberries.
20. Strawberry Funnel Cake Frappuccino
Funnel cake is no secret in the US, but you can get it in a drink from Starbucks’ secret menu. It is intensely sweet and delightfully enjoyable, and you can order it with or without caffeine.
Menu: Secret
How To Order: Get a café vanilla Frappuccino with a pump of toffee nut syrup and extra caramel drizzle inside the cup, but ask for 2 pumps of strawberry puree at the bottom of the cup. The topping should include whipped cream, drizzled strawberry puree, and cinnamon dolce powder.
Tip: skip the caramel drizzle and ask the barista to add freeze-dried strawberries.
How To Add Strawberries To Starbucks Drinks
When ordering strawberry drinks at Starbucks, you can request extra strawberry ingredients. Here is how Starbucks offers that:
Syrups
Starbucks has several syrup options like toffee, caramel, brown sugar, etc. Naturally, you would think they would have strawberry syrup. But Starbucks decide to level things up and use strawberry puree instead.
That way, you get a more natural and potent strawberry flavor. They use the puree at the bottom of a cup for layering and even drizzled over the top for some drinks and on request. Alternatively, you can order your drink with a strawberry acai refresher, which is more like syrup in texture.
Toppings
Strawberry toppings at Starbucks typically include any strawberry ingredient you want with your drink. You can choose strawberry puree, acai refresher, or even fresh strawberries.
Starbucks also offers a strawberry cream cold foam and freeze-dried strawberries as a topping for your drink.
Freeze-dried Strawberries
Starbucks has something called inclusions. These inclusions include freeze-dried fruits like grapes, limes, blackberries, and strawberries. They are slices of fruit that have been freeze-dried and add more intense color and flavor to your drinks,
Starbucks Strawberry Drinks FAQs
You can use the secret menu system to order a strawberry shortcake drink from Starbucks. Get a Grande white mocha Frappuccino with one pump of toffee nut syrup and extra strawberry puree.
A strawberry frappe from Starbucks contains a blend of milk, ice, and strawberry puree. It’s layered on strawberry puree and topped with vanilla whipped cream.
A strawberry inclusion at Starbucks is freeze-dried sliced strawberries. Any reference to inclusions at Starbucks means freeze-dried fruit.
Conclusion
Now you have 20 new Starbucks drinks to try each time you order. Remember to keep your secret menu orders written down to present to the baristas at the counter.
Resources
https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/2121342/iced
https://www.starbucks.com/menu/product/2122677/iced
