i have a friend who makes an "apple pie chai" which is a steamed apple juice with chai and 1-2 pumps cinnamons dolce its super yummy!!

Starbucks soft serve. Blend 100 ml (ish) heavy cream in the cold foam blender with a packet of salt, a scoop of vanilla powder, and 4 scoops/ pumps/ glugs/ whatever of whatever flavor you're going for (I like chocolate, matcha, and strawberry) on 4. Pour into the frap blender. Add 2/3 the ice you'd normally use for a Frappuccino of the same size, and creme base, blend twice, adjust to taste.

Back with the other shift we used to start brewing earl grey at the start of the close and made a london fog frap this way using heavy cream and vanilla bean powder.

I just about have an aneurysm every time I catch a partner suggesting customers do anything at all the customize frappuccinos, but on the rare occasion I want something sweet, I make a cafe vanilla with espresso instead of frap roast, heavy cream, double blended no whip lol. I would never order it at another store but it's like coffee ice cream.

Baristas who spill the most complicated recipes they can imagine on TikTok and Instagram are the literal worst.

got really fucking bored one day and basically made an oreo mcflurry i’ve been craving all day as an oreo frap with heavy cream instead of milk, extra pumps of white mocha, and cookie crumble topping instead of frap chips. definitely not super thicc mcflurry ice cream consistency but the taste was good enough

i tend to get my cinderella drink in the fall (split white mocha and pumpkin) with cinnamon steamed into the milk but that’s pretty common so i generally recommend this to customers if they’re looking for something a bit different

my go to hot chocolate tho is a b&w hot chocolate with vsc cold foam + irish cream blended in (instead of whip). amazing in a white mocha too, the wm + irish cream combo is insanely good

and bootleg starbucks milk tea of course: 3/4 black tea, 1/4 heavy cream or oat for non dairy, brown sugar syrup (i do like an extra pump)

last but not least, gotta thank my coworker for this one, strawberry creamsicle drink: strawberry açai a little past the tea line on the shaker, lemonade to the infusion, vsc a little past the water/juice, no inclusion, vanilla bean powder, and i usually do half ice and the rest water to make it less sweet. the lemonade + vsc made me hesitant at first but if u shake it really well it doenst separate weirdly like coconut bev or anything. so fucking good and it really does taste like a strawberry creamsicle

My drink is impossible now, but back in my day i would make the chocolate banana smoothie with uncut cold brew instead of milk, and extra protein.

Was an excellent meal replacement when you had to choose between rent and groceries 😭

nice try, starbucks tik tok

i get an iced oat milk chai with vanilla bean powder and brown sugar shaken and then over ice with a blonde shot 🤤

Me and my opening shift came up with what we called the Saint Nick around Christmas time. It was like 5 years ago so I don’t remember what it was detailed just ice coffee with whole milk and a few different pumps of different syrups. It was our thing we had every morning that we shared with one customer. Stuff like that was what I loved about working Starbucks.

It irritates me seeing all these licensed store baristas in slow stores with all the time in the world creating these stupid drinks, only for busy drive thru stores to face the consequences

I make a peaches and cream drink on the regular in the summer (i just never want it in the winter). Its my favorite of my creations. I also make frappes every morning- I have a partner give me a theme and then i make it for our openers. The best one I’ve done in my opinion is my tiramisu one

Yes. My favorite involves a Keto substitute for cold foam.

I have proactively made my drink when I’m on breaks to spare other baristas the annoyance, since there’s not a way to write it up/print it on a label effectively either. Also f*ck cold foam in general.

At least you're not using $1 recipe?

I have a recipie that I call the Double Anarchy (which is a Borderlands reference) that's a fiendishly complicated Shaken Espresso drink that's JUST reasonable enough that someone could order it at a drive through. I made it for a coworker once and she said it was "the greatest drink I've ever had at Starbucks, but if you put that on Tik Tok the baristas will hate you"

I won’t say how, but I make banana split fraps for partners. Labor intensive, so same - I wouldn’t put this on anyone else by revealing the specs...but so good! I also make illegal smoothies (who doesn’t?!)

Peaches and cream frap, but I'll never let people know how I make it.

Another partner at my store makes a drink thats a passion tea with toffee nut,soy milk, and a blonde ristretto shot. Tastes like trix lol

Once upon a time, my caramel macchiato frappuccino was just a work of art.

I’m so glad I’m a barista now so I can try all these out without feeling bad 🤣

Raspberry cream coconut milk frappuccino with 1 scoop of vanilla bean and 1/2 scoop matcha, layered with strawberry puree on the top and bottom. Was great during the summer and didn’t wanna share what my cute “Watermelon Frappuccino” was pre-vanilla sweet cream cold foam era, but now I’d probably rather someone order that honestly.

Oh absolutely. I have a few that I will make for partners but I make sure they know that if a customer ever asks for it I will hunt them down

my coworker created something called a ‘peach cobbler.’ all we do is put a little bit of steamed sweet cream into peach tranquility!

please share the spiced frozen lemonade it sounds so good. i wanna make it when i open on tuesday

I did something called Spring Breeze and Easter Bunny. Spring was a dragon drink, no inclusion, with matcha and peach syrup. Looks like a dark matcha but tastes so refreshing and sweet!
Easter Bunny was an ode to something super sweet: iced matcha with white mocha, raspberry and vanilla syrup.

Captain crunch frapp. I only make it for myself, showed my coworkers so they can make it for themselves if they want, and have made it only for one regular. Strawberry frapp, with heavy cream, toffee nut instead of classic, and lots of caramel crunch bits blended in. Then I add more caramel crunch bits and swirl it around in the pitcher to mix it, then it's done.

My fav is cream base frapachino with heavy cream instead of whole milk, vanilla bean white mocha and cram cheese. Tip it with whip and strawberry purée it tasted just like a cheesecake!

A coworker of mine created a drink he called “the grinch” around the holidays. It was egg nog steamed with green tea and however many pumps of peppermint. was actually tasty. Wouldn’t order it though.

brownie batter cold foam hehehe 😈

I had a customer order a drink today that was mildly annoying but we all sampled out some for ourselves and it was actually BOMB. I’ll make it for myself/partners but I don’t think I’d ever suggest it

I like to put espresso shots in the foamer with cinnamon or chocolate powder and oatmilk. Or replace capp shots with nitro, makes it soooo foamy (recommend extra hot on the milk)

I don't know that it's a secret but at my store they made what they called a lemon drop. A 20oz of lemonade extra hot, in a grande cup ( it shrinks a bit), one pump raspberry, two bags of passion tea.

Banana milk shake... heavy cream, cream base, and a banana

Not all heros wear capes

All of my creations are frappuccinos because I'm obsessed, but they're a pain in the butt to make so I don't share them.

I've made Caramel Apple frapp, Sour Patch Tea, Red Kiwi Tea, Rainbow Creme frapp, Skittle tea, and couple others that I refuse to list just to save y'all from the tiktok misery lol

I have one I like to affectionately refer to as Anti-Sleep that I used to make for my drink when I went on my lunch. It was amazing, and it had enough caffeine to down a water buffalo, but I could only make it when it was absolutely dead, otherwise the person on bar would strangle me.

I made an apple pie frapp once and I will be taking that one to the grave with me.

I used to make a guaranteed hangover cure based on passion tea, but the ratios are precise and it looks and tastes terrible so I never told anyone what was in it :(

Cold brew and nitro foam drinks(a la the old cloud drinks)

Adding cold brew to a frap is actually not a bad idea it tastes p good when you make it into a java chip; like (1/4) of the cup of cold brew its yummy too

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