Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Shaker is a Starbucks copycat iced drink made with brown sugar simple syrup, cinnamon, espresso, and oat milk. Try my Copycat Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino or Chocolate Cream Cold Brew for a couple more refreshing and flavorful drinks that will get you going for the day!
Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Shaker {Starbucks Copycat}
I love Starbucks coffee and all of their choices, but I don’t love the long lines. So, I decided to replicate one of their newer drinks, the Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Shaker iced drink. It has just enough sweetness from the brown sugar simple syrup. And, the drink is topped off with plant-based oat milk.
Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Shaker Ingredients
Brown Sugar Simple Syrup: Use light or dark brown sugar to make the simple syrup that will be added to this espresso shaker drink.
Cinnamon: Just a half teaspoon of cinnamon is all you need to help flavor this drink. Plus, cinnamon is a spice that is full of health benefits!
Espresso: To truly copy the Starbucks recipe, I used blonde espresso, which is less bitter than regular espresso. Espresso is a concentrated form of coffee. It’s made with finely-ground coffee beans and an espresso machine that blasts boiling water through the ground coffee. It is served in shots (about 1 ounce per shot).
Espresso can be made with any kind of coffee, from light roast to dark roast. You can also buy espresso ground coffee and even espresso K-cups you can make in a Keurig coffee maker. If using regular coffee, the coffee flavor will be less intense. You could also use cold brew in this recipe.
Oat Milk: Oat Milk joins other popular plant-based milk like soy, almond, and rice milk. It has a creamy texture and is made by blending water and oats, then straining the liquid. Store-bought oat milk has about the same amounts of vitamins and minerals when compared with cow’s milk.
No Shaker? No Problem!
If you don’t have a shaker, simply use a to-go coffee mug with a solid lid. Fill the mug up with ice, just like in a shaker, add all the ingredients, cover the opening mouth part, and get shakin’! When you are ready to pour the contents into the glass, just open up the mouth opening and pour. The lid should hold the ice back so you just get the chilled beverage.
How Does an Iced Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Taste?
Everyone I made this drink for loved it. Really! Some of them are die-hard coffee drinkers, some not so much, but everyone took a sip and said they would definitely make this at home. It’s smooth, creamy, has just the right amount of sweetness, and has the perfect coffee kick. Definitely worth trying!
How to Store Brown Sugar Simple Syrup
After the syrup has cooled, store it in an air-tight container, in the refrigerator, for up to a month.
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Brown Sugar Oat Milk Espresso Shaker {Starbucks Copycat}
Ingredients
Brown Sugar Simple Syrup
- 1 cup (237 g) water
- 1 cup (200 g) brown sugar, packed
Drink
- 1-2 tablespoons brown sugar simple syrup, depending on how sweet you like it
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 shots blonde espresso *see notes
- ¼ cup (60 g) oat milk
Instructions
Brown Sugar Simple Syrup
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, heat water to just below boiling.
- Add brown sugar. Whisk together, continuing to heat, until all sugar crystals have dissolved. Remove from heat to cool.
Drink
- In a large shaker filled with ice, add brown sugar simple syrup, cinnamon, and blonde espresso. Shake until well mixed.
- Pour over ice. Top with oat milk. Serve cold.
Notes
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Is the espresso hot or cold when you make the drink?
Hi, Abbey! I work with iambaker and am happy to help with questions. You could use hot or cold espresso. Have a wonderful day!
Would love to see a copycat of the Chocolate Almond Milk version of this drink!! Thank you for posting this one!!
Had never tried this or oat milk, but it was delish! Made the syrup in microwave, used 2 shots of reg espresso, pinch of cinnamon, dash of van syrup. Shook it up in a wine sippy cup, then topped with oat milk. Excellent, will be making more!
Yum! I tried using golden monkfruit sweetner instead of brown sugar (safe for diabetics, and im trying to cut my sugar intake) and it was pretty close to the real deal. I find monkfruit way sweeter than sugar so i only used 1/2 cup sweetner to 1 cup water. Thanks for the recipe!
Pretty good, but making it this way the cinnamon made the drink gritty. Next time I might try infusing the cinnamon into the brown sugar syrup.
I can’t wait to try this! I always order mine with light ice and no cinnamon. I never have liked cold coffee drinks until this one. Finding a home alternative will hopefully be as good and much easier on my wallet.
Tasted just like Starbucks! Very tasty, thank you!
How do we store the brown sugar simple syrup so we can use it all up? I’d drink one of these every day!
I am making this for sure