Blueberry Swirl Iced Coffee (DIY Starbucks Recipe)

Blueberry Swirl Iced Coffee (DIY Starbucks Recipe)

Blueberry compote ingredients (yields 2 servings):

🫐 1 cup of blueberries, fresh or frozen

🫐 ¼ tsp honey

🫐 ½ tsp vanilla extract

Drink ingredients:

☕️ 8 oz coffee (recommended to use Starbucks Spring Day Blend), brewed and cooled

☕️ 3 tbsp blueberry compote

☕️ 1 tsp sugar (or more to taste)

☕️ ¾ cup ice

☕️ 4 oz milk (recommended to use 2%)

Instructions:

1️⃣ Make blueberry compote by cooking the blueberries, honey, and vanilla in a small saucepan for 3-4 minutes over medium-high heat, until the blueberries have broken down. Then, let the mixture cool slightly before blending in a blender or immersion blender. Set aside.

2️⃣ Take out a 16 oz glass and pour blueberry compote in. Then, sprinkle with desired amount of sugar and top with ice (I forgot to do this so the ice isn’t in the pictures till the end!)

3️⃣ Froth milk to create cold foam using an aerator or handheld frother (my Ninja coffee maker comes with a mini frother attached so that’s what you’ll see in the pictures.)

4️⃣ Pour cold foam into the glass on top of the blueberry compote, then fill the glass with coffee.

Commentary:

As soon as I saw the picture of this drink on the Starbucks site, I knew I had to try it! I make fruit compotes often for my baked goods, so this was a pretty easy recipe for me to make, but it’s definitely more time-consuming if you’re making a compote for the first time. I would recommend making the compote the day before so that you can quickly assemble the drink in the morning.

I loved the taste of the blueberry compote, the cold foam was fun to drink, and I enjoyed my coffee (even though I didn’t use the recommended Starbucks blend.) But truthfully, I didn’t feel like all of the flavors came together in a cohesive way. Perhaps it was because I didn’t blend my blueberry compote enough, but when the compote was mixed into the coffee, I still mostly tasted coffee with some sporadic bursts of blueberry here and there. It was enjoyable to drink, but maybe not as exciting as the Starbucks picture made it out to look if I’m being honest 😅 Fun to try though!

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