Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha {Starbucks Copycat}

Starbucks is all about lavender flavor this spring and if you're a fan of matcha and love floral flavors, you'll want to try this copycat Starbucks Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha! It's easy to make at home and is so visually appealing with its layered green and pale purple appearance.

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• 🍵 What is the Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha?
• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🗒 Ingredients
• 🪻 How to make lavender powder
• ☁️ How to make the lavender cold foam
• 🧋 How to make the Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha
• 🥛 Can I use another kind of dairy?
• 🎉 How to customize
• ⚡️ How much caffeine is in this?
• 🍬 How much sugar is in this?
• 🥤 More Starbucks tea drinks
• 🌿 More homemade lavender recipes
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

Happy spring!! This spring 2024, Starbucks is ALL about the lavender. And I mean all about it. Every one of their new drinks features lavender flavor, including the:

• Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha
• Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte
• Lavender Créme Frappuccino

Lavender lovers are rejoicing, but if you don't appreciate floral flavors in your coffee and tea, this certainly isn't the season for you.

Luckily, I love lavender and have already incorporated it into many recipes on my website.

And also luckily, it's so pretty! Even if you don't love the flavor, you have to at least appreciate the layered color gorgeousness of this Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha.

🍵 What is the Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha?

This new drink is a standard iced matcha that's topped with lavender sweet cream. The coffee shop describes it as "Smooth and creamy matcha served with oatmilk over ice, topped with sweet and subtle floral notes of lavender cream cold foam."

It's pretty simple and also pretty easy to recreate at home!

Though Starbucks makes almost all of their drinks with flavored syrups (and I've been making a lavender syrup for years now), for this season, they've introduced a lavender powder instead of a syrup.

This was my first time making a powder for a Starbucks copycat recipe, but it ended up being pretty easy, especially since Starbucks does list all the ingredients in each of their drink components.

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

You'll love this lavender matcha because it tastes just like the one you can get at Starbucks! If you're a fan of sweet matcha and lavender flavors, this will most definitely be the drink for you.

Some people describe it as tasting like the milk from Fruity Pebbles cereal and I can definitely see that, though with earthy matcha and floral lavender flavors, too.

It's also easy to make this matcha at home and to get the same pretty layered appearance they get for their drinks.

You will need a few special ingredients to make it, but they're easy to find and I share links to everything I used!

If you love the lavender color, but don't love the floral flavor, you can try my Starbucks Purple Drink (also known as the Lavender Haze) recipe.

🗒 Ingredients

There are a few different components of this drink, which you'll mostly have to make from scratch. I'm hopeful we'll be to purchase lavender powder soon! But for now, you can get ALL the details on how to make Starbucks lavender powder at home.

Here's what you'll need (be sure to view the recipe card at the bottom of this post for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions):

• Sweetened matcha powder: Starbucks uses a sweetened matcha powder so that's what I recommend using here. However, if you want to use an unsweetened matcha (the sweetened ones generally aren't as high-quality as ceremonial grade unsweetened), you can add a little simple syrup to it. Or if you prefer a stronger matcha flavor and less sweetness, use it as is.
• Water
• Lavender powder: homemade from the recipe below. If you don't want to make this, you can substitute with lavender syrup and purple food coloring, but I like to share a recipe with you that's as close to Starbucks as possible, which is why I made the powder.
• Oat milk: I like to use "barista" style oat milk (you can find it at most major grocery stores) or extra creamy oat milk.
• Lavender Cream Cold Foam: homemade from the recipe below

Here's what you'll need for the lavender powder:

• Dried lavender flowers: make sure you're using culinary-grade lavender as you want it to be safe for consumption
• Granulated sugar
• Black currant powder: this will give the powder its pretty purple hue as the lavender flowers won't actually be purple enough. If you don't care about the purple color, you don't need to add it. Or you can use the purple coloring of your choice.
• Salt
• Soy lecithin powder: this ingredient is optional, but does help prevent the powder from clumping when its added to liquid.

And here's what's required for the lavender Cream Cold Foam:

• 2% milk
• Heavy cream
• Vanilla syrup: you can use a store-bought vanilla syrup or make your own using this vanilla syrup recipe

In terms of equipment, I do recommend using a spice grinder or coffee grinder for the lavender powder. You can use a blender or food processor or mortar and pestle in a pinch, but a grinder will make your powder much finer.

I also love using an electric frother to make my cold foams, though you can use a hand mixer or blender if you prefer. You can also shake it vigorously in a jar, but it won't get quite as frothy.

🪻 How to make lavender powder

The lavender powder is really easy to make, but I highly recommend using a spice grinder or coffee grinder for it. This is the spice grinder I have.

If you don't have a grinder, you can use a mortar and pestle to grind everything together or you can use a blender or food processor. But the grinder will really get you the finest powder!

Even if you have a super vibrantly purple lavender flower, you're likely still going to need some kind of purple coloring to get the powder as bold as you want it. Starbucks lists black currant powder in their ingredients, so I used that.

I was initially worried it would change the flavor of the lavender too much, but it doesn't. It adds a slight fruitiness to the powder, but the lavender is still very much the predominant flavor.

Start by putting the dried lavender in a spice blender.

And grind it up into a powder.

Move the ground lavender to a small bowl.

See how the lavender went from a beautiful vibrant purple to a green-brown when ground?

That's why we add the black currant powder.

Mix that into the lavender, along with the sugar, salt, and soy lecithin if you're using it.

The soy lecithin simply helps the powder dissolve into drinks (both hot and cold) better, but you should also be fine without it with a little stirring. Starbucks uses soybean oil and the soy lecithin is a good solid substitute.

Then put the mixture back in the grinder (you'll likely have to work in batches) and process again until you get a fine powder.

I recommend storing your lavender powder in a mason jar or another airtight container and keeping it at room temperature.

☁️ How to make the lavender cold foam

I love making cold foams and have made them in all kinds of flavors from pumpkin to pistachio. For this drink, Starbucks uses a vanilla cold foam with lavender powder added.

Again, I like to follow Starbucks ingredients as closely as I can for cold foams, which is why I use a combination of 2% milk and heavy cream, but you can really use any kind of dairy you want.

You can even use oat milk if you want to keep the drink dairy-free (I think it's interesting the matcha drink is made with oat milk, but isn't dairy-free because of the cold foam).

To make it, add milk, cream, vanilla syrup, and lavender powder to a large jar and shake well to combine (if you don't have a jar, you can stir everything together in a bowl). You can make this lavender sweet cream ahead of time and store it in the fridge.

When you're ready to enjoy your lavender matcha drink, add the sweet cream to an electric frother, blender, or bowl with hand mixer.

If you're using lavender syrup instead of powder, I recommend using 1 ½ tablespoon lavender syrup and ½ tablespoon vanilla syrup in the cold foam.

And froth, mix, or blend until the mixture turns into a foam. Alternatively, you can shake the mixture vigorously in a mason jar until it's frothy.

Check out that foam!

🧋 How to make the Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha

Now that your lavender powder and lavender cold foam are made, you're ready to whip up the drink. The rest of it is quick and easy!

In a small bowl, whisk together matcha powder and water.

Pour the matcha mixture into glass.

Add ice. And pour in oat milk.

Make sure you have plenty of room left for the cold foam!

And top the matcha drink with lavender cold foam.

How pretty is that?!

And it's also seriously delicious. The sweet matcha pairs so well with the vanilla lavender flavors of the cold foam and it really does taste like the perfect combination of floral, earthy, and fruity.

I have a feeling lots of people are ordering this drink for its appearance, but then end up falling in love with it!

🥛 Can I use another kind of dairy?

Yes! As I mentioned, most people would assume this Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha is dairy-free since it's made with oat milk. But because the cold foam is made with 2% milk and heavy cream, it's not dairy-free.

But you can easily make the drink dairy-free by making the lavender cold foam with oat milk or another dairy-free alternative.

You can also simply use whatever milk or dairy-free milk you have on hand. You may need to experiment a bit to get the foam the best consistency, but most milks will froth pretty well, though I don't particularly recommend using almond milk or coconut milk.

And if you're not a fan of oat milk, you can use the dairy/dairy alternative of your choice in the matcha itself.

🎉 How to customize

One of the best parts of making Starbucks drinks at home is that you can customize them any way you want.

Here are some of my recommendations for the lavender matcha:

• If you want an even sweeter matcha drink, feel free to add simple syrup into it. I think vanilla syrup is the best, but you could also use lavender syrup (to really amp up the floral flavor!) or the flavor of your choice.
  

• If you want a less sweet drink, consider using an unsweetened matcha. If you want, you can add syrup to the matcha to get to the sweetness level you desire.
  

• If you don't want to make the lavender powder, you can consider making the cold foam with lavender syrup instead. I recommend using 1 ½ tablespoon lavender syrup and ½ tablespoon vanilla syrup in the cold foam (too much added liquid will prevent it from frothing enough). You can either purchase a bottle of lavender syrup or make your own.
  
  
• If you like a lighter lavender flavor, use less dried lavender when you make your powder and/or add more sugar.

• If you can't find black currant powder, you can try purple sweet potato powder or any other purple food coloring. Just be sure to taste it to make sure it won't alter the flavor of your cold foam too much.

• As mentioned, you can use whatever dairy or non-dairy alternative you want for both the matcha and the cold foam.

• Instead of using oat milk, add lemonade to the iced matcha drink and top with the lavender cold foam for a sweet and citrusy tea.

⚡️ How much caffeine is in this?

According to Starbucks, a grande lavender matcha has 60 mg of caffeine in it.

As a point of comparison, the Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte has 170 mg of caffeine and the Lavender Créme Frappuccino has no caffeine in it. A typical grande cold brew from Starbucks contains 205 mg of caffeine.

🍬 How much sugar is in this?

A grande Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha at Starbucks has about 33 grams of sugar. Since this drink is homemade, the amount could vary a bit. But you can easily control it by using more or less sweetener in the cold foam and using unsweetened matcha powder if you prefer.

As a point of comparison, the Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte has about 19 grams of sugar and the Lavender Créme Frappuccino has 52 grams of sugar.

🥤 More Starbucks tea drinks

If you're a Starbucks tea drinker, I've got lots of easy-to-make-at-home Starbucks tea drinks for you! You can see all my Starbucks copycat recipes here and here are some of my favorite teas:

Be sure to also check out my recipes for the other Starbucks' spring 2024 drinks- the Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte!

And the Lavender Crème Frappuccino:

Lastly, Starbucks launched a surprise dairy-free and caffeine-free drink- the Lavender Oatmilk Chill. It's delicious and SO easy to make at home!

🌿 More homemade lavender recipes

If you're as obsessed with all things lavender as lots of people are this spring, I have plenty more lavender recipes for you to try! Here are some of my favorites:

Something tells me this is going to be the year for all things lavender and you'll be seeing the pretty purple hue all over!

Do you have a favorite spring 2024 drink at Starbucks? Let me know how you're ordering your lavender drinks!

📖 Recipe