How To Hack Starbucks Cold Foam To Make Butterbeer
If you've craved Butterbeer - the butterscotch-meets-cream-soda-flavored drink made famous in Harry Potter - you've really had two options. You could go to Universal Studios, which went through several iterations before getting author J.K. Rowling's seal of approval; or make it yourself, at home. Sure, there's a popular Starbucks hack to create a close replica, but it's always fallen just a little bit short - until now.
Today, Starbucks stores nationwide are offering cold foam on their menus, and it's the key muggles everywhere have been missing. Essentially, nonfat milk is whipped in a blender until thick and frothy - denser than your typical frothed milk - and poured onto any iced drink. It creates a silky layer atop the drink, much like the foamy head to an iced Butterbeer. The one thing you couldn't quite replicate, no matter how much you tried to substitute whipped cream.
Starbucks is debuting two versions of cold foam - Cascara-sweetened and unsweetened. Cascara gives the milk a slight sweetness (that, thankfully, isn't cloying) and it's made from coffee cherries. It's crucial for replicating Potter's go-to drink. To get it just right, here's what you should ask your barista for, based on Hack The Menu's original recipe:
A grande iced latte
2 pumps caramel syrup
2 pumps Toffee Nut syrup
2 pumps Cinnamon Dolce syrup
Cascara cold foam on top
The coffee chain's debuting cold foam with three specific drinks, though you can add it to any iced drink for 50 cents. If Butterbeer's not really your thing, you can try it a more traditional way, as a Cold Foam Cascara Cold Brew (cold brew sweetened with vanilla syrup, topped with Cascara cold foam and Cascara crystals). Or the same drink, only with Nitro Cold Brew, which makes it closer to coffee's take on a stout beer (minus the booze, of course).
Starbucks is also promoting the drink as a Cold Foam Blonde Iced Cappuccino, which is exactly as it sounds. Its Blonde Espresso is poured over ice, with a little milk, then topped with creamy cold foam.
It's a whole new way to feed your java addiction.
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