If you are on social media at all chances are you’ve seen photos floating around of the Starbuck’s secret menu “Pink Drink.” I’ve been drooling over them for days. It is a Strawberry Acai Refresher combined with coconut milk and chunks of fresh strawberries. It is not sugar-free or low carb. The Refreshers have sugar and so does the coconut milk Starbucks uses. Bummer. So I made up my own copycat Starbucks Pink Drink Recipe!
Starbucks Pink Drink Recipe – Low Carb, Keto, Sugar-Free, THM FP or S
Disclaimer: I have not had an official (or unofficial) Starbucks Pink Drink since it is full of sugar. I just went with the strawberry coconut combination and played around. I really love the results.
My first attempt looked a lot thicker than the Starbucks photos. So I went back to the kitchen to make a Starbucks pink drink recipe that was more drink than a smoothie. Then I was thinking how nice this would be as a sipper for the Trim Healthy Mama diet so I made one more variety. The 1 1/2 tbsp offull-fatt coconut milk has 5 grams of fat which keeps it in Fuel Pull territory.
Pink Drink:
8 oz boiling water
1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet (or my sweetener blend)
1 cup cold water + ice cubes to equal 1 1/2 cups ice water
1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
3 fresh strawberries
pinch of xanthan gum (helps avoid separation)
Pink Drink Smoothie:
4 oz boiling water
1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet (or my sweetener blend)
1/2 cup ice
1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
4 fresh strawberries
pinch of xanthan gum (helps avoid separation)
Pink Drink Sipper:
8 oz boiling water
1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet (or my sweetener blend)
1/2 cup ice
1 cup cold water
1 1/2 tbsp full fat coconut milk
2 fresh strawberries
pinch of xanthan gum (helps avoid separation)
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Ingredients
Pink Drink:
- 8 oz boiling water
- 1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
- 1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
- 2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet or my sweetener
- 1 cup cold water + ice cubes to equal 1 1/2 cups ice water
- 1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
- 3 fresh strawberries
- pinch of xanthan gum helps avoid separation
Pink Drink Smoothie:
- 4 oz boiling water
- 1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
- 1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
- 2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet or my sweetener
- 1/2 cup ice
- 1/4 cup full fat coconut milk
- 4 fresh strawberries
- pinch of xanthan gum helps avoid separation
Pink Drink Sipper:
- 8 oz boiling water
- 1 Lipton Berry Hibiscus tea bag
- 1 Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea bag
- 2 tbsp Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet or my sweetener
- 1/2 cup ice
- 1 cold water
- 1 1/2 tbsp full fat coconut milk
- 2 fresh strawberries
- pinch of xanthan gum helps avoid separation
Instructions
- Drink Directions: In a large glass measuring cup pour boiling water over the tea bags and steep for 5 minutes. Add the sweetener and stir to dissolve. Add 1 1/2 cups ice water. Stir to melt the ice. Blend this with the coconut milk and strawberries. Blend in the xanthan gum. Pour over additional ice and strawberry chunks.
- Smoothie Directions: In a glass measuring cup pour boiling water over the tea bags and steep for 5 minutes. Add the sweetener and stir to dissolve. Add ice to make this equal 1 cup. Stir to melt the ice. Blend this with the coconut milk and strawberries. Blend in the xanthan gum.Pour over additional ice and strawberry chunks.
- Sipper Directions: In a glass measuring cup pour boiling water over the tea bags and steep for 5 minutes. Add the sweetener and stir to dissolve. Add ice and cold water. Stir to melt the ice. Blend this with the coconut milk and strawberries. Blend in the xanthan gum. Pour over additional ice.
Nutrition
Nutrition facts for the drink and smoothie are above in the recipe card. Nutrition facts for the sipper are below:
Holly says
My very skinny 17 year old eats a very unhealthy diet. When she latched on to the pink drinks I was excited because it is WAY better than her usual energy drinks! I had a sip and knew I needed to make it healthy. She usually turns up her nose and my attempts to feed her healthy🙄I am very excited to try this. My hope is that it’s awesome and she switches (Starbucks has been incredibly inconsistent with this particular drink and dissappoints her as she puts down $5 of her hard earned dollars and leaves it undrunk on my counters; I am hoping for a win!!) thank you so much!!!
Molly Kumar says
Wow, this looks soooo pretty and perfect for summers. I’m going to try them soon.
Alyssa says
What a great idea to combine those tea flavors. They’re some of my favorites. Yum.
Mandy says
When you say coconut milk, do you mean canned? Or in a container like cashew milk?
Taryn says
I used canned.
Daphne Caldwell says
Just curious the carb amount for this? Thanks!
Taryn says
I just added a nutrition box.
sara says
sound yummy, but what categories do these fall in??
Taryn says
For THM? They are an S because of the coconut milk.
Johnna D. says
Looks deliciously refreshing!!