Iced Shaken Espresso (Starbucks Copycat Recipe) (2024)

FAQs

What syrup is in an iced shaken espresso? ›

To make your iced shaken espresso, brew the espresso and add it to your jar or shaker with the brown sugar syrup and cinnamon. Depending on how you are brewing your espresso, you can brew it right into the jar or shaker if you like. Give the ingredients a quick stir, then add in the ice and close the lid tightly.

Pour shaken espresso over fresh ice. Froth cold oat milk and pour the cold oatmilk foam over the espresso drink. Shake cinnamon over top of the cold foam and serve! You can also make a brown sugar syrup the same way you would make a normal simple syrup.

Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk Shaken Espresso​

Shake up your coffee routine with a cup of creamy oatmilk, rich espresso and perfectly sweet brown sugar.

Like a shakerato, a shaken espresso combines espresso, ice, simple syrup, and milk (dairy milk, oat milk, almond milk) or cream in a shaker and served over ice for a refreshing, invigorating beverage. The dairy adds a creamy kick that mellows the coffee's bitterness and improves the mouthfeel of the drink.

Classic. The all-around sweetener. Classic syrup is Starbucks' version of simple syrup or liquid sugar and is what all of their shaken teas and iced coffees are sweetened with. It ranks second for giving us our sugar fix without any additional flavor.

A delicious blend of Latin American and Asia/Pacific coffees, this espresso has a rich and caramelly sweetness and is at the heart of our handcrafted latte.

A big factor that distinguishes the flavors and strength of the two drinks has to do with the amount of milk used. A latte is essentially a milk-based drink with espresso added (latte is the word for milk in Italian) while a shaken espresso is basically the opposite, it's a coffee-based drink with a touch of milk.

Shaken espresso is a spin on the Italian shakerato that was popularized by Starbucks. Traditionally, a shakerato is chilled espresso. It is made by shaking ice cubs and espresso together until it's chilled and frothed at the top. Sometimes sugar or simple syrup is added for sweetness.

Starbucks uses Oatly Barista Edition oat milk. This is a brand of oat milk that is specially formulated for making coffee drinks. It has a creamy and foamy texture, and it does not separate or curdle when mixed with hot coffee.

Why does shaken espresso taste different? ›

Flavor. Typically, an iced shaken espresso has a stronger, more intense taste due to the higher coffee content. However, it can be sweetened with syrups or a little whipped cream on top of the cup. An iced latte, on the other hand, has a milder and sweeter flavor thanks to its higher milk content.

Here's what you do: Boil one cup of water. While you wait for the water to heat up, add two tablespoons of freshly, finely ground coffee to your French press. Add a bit of the boiling water to the French press and stir briefly. Wait four minutes, then slowly push down the plunger, pausing every few seconds.

To start, add two spoonfuls of brown sugar to a cup. You can add more if you want it sweeter. And then brew two shots of espresso. over the sugar to melt it, and then add that over ice and shake it all up.

In a standard grande shaken espresso drink, Starbucks use 3 shots of espresso, which equates to 3 ounces. And they use about 4 pumps of brown sugar syrup, which equates to about 2 ounces of syrup.

Just like in the store, you can customize the at home version to your preferences. For reference, Starbucks uses the Oatly Barista oat milk! You can even stick with cow's milk or switch to other non-dairy milk.

A lot of the recipes I have seen for the Brown Sugar Shaken Espresso requires whipping up a batch of brown sugar syrup.

What exactly do Starbucks baristas put inside their iced coffee to sweeten it? They use classic syrup, which is the chain's version of a simple syrup that contains 80 calories per 30-milliliter serving.

Using our Starbucks Blonde^® Espresso roast, we shake ice, espresso and toasted vanilla flavour syrup together, then top with a splash of oat drink.