This Starbucks spring menu Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha Latte is easy to make at home with just 4 ingredients and 5 minutes. When I saw this on the Starbucks spring menu, I HAD to recreate it at home. Lavender and matcha are some of my favorite flavors, and they work like magic in this refreshing cold beverage. The best part? You can enjoy it ALL year round, even after it leaves the Starbucks menu!
Rumor has it on Reddit that this drink has been tough for Starbucks' employees to make regularly and doesn't live up to the hype. This recipe solves all your (and Starbucks') problems! This homemade lavender matcha latte is easy, tastes more airy and balanced than the store version, and you can control the sweetness level.
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🌟Why You’ll Love This Recipe
🧾Ingredients in This Recipe
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
💜 Make it purple
It won't be purple unless you add additional food coloring, even if using the purple simple syrup. I tried coloring the foam in natural ways including with butterfly pea flower and taro powder but found that gel or liquid food coloring gave the best result.
👩🍳How to Make This Recipe
Note that these steps show a handheld frother, while the recipe card has alternative instructions for using a French press.
💜 Pro Tip
For the optional sweetener, you can amp up the lavender taste and level of sweetness with an easy homemade lavender simple syrup. I really like this addition to intensify the lavender flavor.
🍵 More Matcha Latte Ideas
Yes, you CAN make complex and delicious matcha lattes at home. These beverages are accessible to anyone and make a welcome change from normal tea or coffee.
Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha Latte (Starbucks Copycat)
Ingredients
Lavender Cold Foam
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup milk Starbucks uses 2% dairy milk
- 2 tablespoon lavender simple syrup Add more depeeding on your sweetness preference
Iced Matcha Latte
- 2 teaspoon matcha powder culinary grade
- ¼ cup water drinking water
- ¾ cup milk Starbucks uses oat milk, and non-dairy (oat or coconut) or 2% dairy work
- 2 cups ice
- 1 teaspoon honey optional, up to 2 teaspoons, Starbucks uses presweetened matcha
Instructions
Lavender Cold Foam
- If using a handheld frother: Add all the ingredients into a tall glass.If using a french press: Add all ingredients into a French press.
- If using a handheld frother: Froth until it just about doubles in volume. Don't let the cream fully whip.If using a french press: move the plunger up and down 30-40 times until the volume increases.
- Set aside until ready to pour over the matcha latte.
Iced Matcha Latte
- Add ¼ cup of hot or filtered water to the matcha powder in a small bowl. Using your metal whisk or bamboo chasen, whisk the matcha and water until the clumps are gone. Add the milk and optional sweetener. Mix to incorporate.
- Fill your serving glasses with ice.
- Pour the mixed latte over the ice.
Iced Matcha Latte with Lavender Cold Foam
- Pour the lavender cold foam over the iced matcha latte.
Ashley
Starbucks uses the powder when they make the cold foam, though it tastes way different than the syrup. Most of us are trying to find the cold foam flavor that tastes like cereal milk not floral
Candice
If you want it super cereal milky, you can add 2 scoops of this lavender milk tea powder, and just one teaspoon of the lavender simple syrup in the cold foam. Unless you want it super sweet, then you can do a tablespoon.
Emma R
I have been trying to buy this drink from Starbucks but they keep being out of it, so I tried making it myself with this recipe at home. WOW! It came out great. Will be my new sweet treat in the afternoons