2-Minute Summer-Berry Starbucks Refresher: Copycat Recipe
Summer-Berry Starbucks Refreshers are teeming with blueberry, blackberry, and raspberry flavors! This summer, Starbucks has added the ever-popular popping boba pearls that burst with fresh fruit flavor. With my quick and easy 2-minute recipe, you can enjoy this refresher all summer — while saving money!
Summer-Berry Starbucks Refreshers are the fresh, fruity flavor we’ve been waiting for! The flavor combines blueberry, blackberry, and raspberry! Their new drink includes boba pearls that pop with fresh raspberry flavor. Can we say, OMG? Yep! It’s that good!
To take the flavor to the next level, top the summer berry refresher with vanilla sweet cream cold foam. I recommend pairing this drink with homemade fruit popsicles or a blueberry milkshake for the perfect hot-day combo!
Three Refresher Flavors
Every refresher line at Starbucks comes in three flavors. You can choose from sweet, sour, or tropical. Here is a quick breakdown of each.
- Summer Berry – A mixed berry base, water, ice, and raspberry-flavored pearls
- Summer Berry Lemonade – A mixed berry base, lemonade, ice, and raspberry-flavored pearls
- Summer Skies Drink – A mixed berry base, coconut milk, ice, and raspberry-flavored pearls.
Ingredients
Starbucks’ drink syrups are custom-made, which makes them hard to replicate. I looked for off-the-shelf ingredients that matched the flavor as closely as possible. Monin Wildberry was by far the closest favorite (and delicious!) It will require an investment, but you will save money quickly at $7 a Starbucks drink!
- Moin Wildberry Syrup: Monin does not specify the berry flavors in this syrup. However, the label shows blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, which suggests those are the berry flavors in this syrup.
- Citric Acid: This ingredient adds a tang to balance out the sweetness. It is an important ingredient, but remember: with citric acid, less is more.
- Green Bean Coffee Extract (optional): Add this for caffeine. Starbucks lists this as “flavor.” In my experience, it doesn’t add flavor, so I left it optional.
- Strawberry-Flavored Boba Pearls (optional): I struggled to find raspberry boba pearls on Amazon for less than $40, so I chose Strawberry pearls. The drinks differed only slightly. Here is what I noted.
- The strawberry pearls were sweeter, whereas the Starbucks raspberry pearls were tarter.
- The strawberry pearls are made with tapioca, and the Starbucks pearls are not. I only noticed a very slight difference in texture. I also noticed the raspberry pearls dissolved faster.
Note: Starbucks flavored syrups instead of fresh fruit. You can try making this at home with fresh fruit. But it will take longer and taste nothing like the Starbucks berry drink.
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2-Minute Summer-Berry Starbucks Refreshers: Copycat Recipe
Ingredients
BASE
- 1 tablespoon Monin Wildberry Syrup
- 3 tablespoons water
- â…› teaspoon citric acid
SUMMER BERRY REFRESHER
- 1 cup of the prepared base Monin Wildberry Syrup mixed with water
- 1 cup of your choice of mixer water, lemonade, or coconut milk
- 1 handful of boba pearls
Instructions
- Prepare the base by mixing the Monin Wildberry Syrup, water, and citric acid.
- In a large glass, place a handful of boba pearls at the bottom.
- Add two scoops (approximately 2 cups) of ice into the glass.
- Pour in the prepared base and your chosen mixer for the refresher.
- Mix well and enjoy your refreshing summer berry drink!
Notes
- 1 part base: 1 equal part water
- 1 part base: 1 equal part lemonade
- 1 part base: 1 equal part coconut milk
| Size | Ice Scoops | Base | Mixer | Inclusions (Handful) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tall (12 oz) | 1.5 scoops | 3/4 | 3/4 | 1 |
| Grande (16 oz) | 2 scoops | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Venti (24 oz) | 3 scoops | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1-2 |
Love this drink. Two ingredients and super easy!
Hi Judy, thank you so much! It’s so easy and so much cheeper then Starbucks! When I was testing it and trying to find the perfect match I was pleasantly surprised to realize it all came down to one syrup! That never happens!