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The tiramisu lineup of coffee drinks has been a huge hit for the 2026 holiday season. The flavors are festive and fun without being too over-the-top holiday.
I've been loving my homemade Tiramisu Cold Brew and now I've been drinking the Tiramisu Lattes, both hot and iced.
The lattes are built in a similar way to the cold brew, except they have additional milk added to them, so they're a little less coffee-forward. They are also served in mocha-rimmed cups and are topped with mascarpone cold foam, crushed cookies, and cocoa and espresso powder.
This hot tiramisu latte is easy to make at home, so you can enjoy it all holiday season... and long after the holidays are over!
❤️ Why this recipe works
It tastes like tiramisu: this latte has most of the key ingredients of tiramisu and they all work together so that every sip feels like you're taking a bite of the Italian dessert!
It's made the same way
It's a hot latte with a cold foam on top: as far as I know, this is the first hot drink
There are options for some ingredients: that said, I do have a few options for you to make this recipe as easy (and as tasty) for you as possible. I like to make my cold foam with actual mascarpone cheese, but also show you how to make it with vanilla pudding powder. And many of the ingredients can be either store-bought or made from scratch.
It's a wonderful holiday drink, but works any time of year: this drink does have holiday vibes. But tiramisu is an any time of year dessert and isn't a flavor like eggnog or gingerbread that's really limited to the holiday season. Now that you have the copycat recipe, you can make it all year round.
🗒️ Ingredients
Here's everything you need to make your own
- Mocha sauce: you can use store-bought or homemade mocha sauce with the recipe from my Dubai Chocolate Mocha post. The sauce is for the rim of your glass and can be skipped if you don't care about it.
- Brewed espresso or strongly brewed coffee
- Vanilla syrup: store-bought or homemade with my vanilla syrup recipe.
- 2% milk
- Velvet Mascarpone Cold Foam: I share the recipe in this post.
- Cocoa Cookie Dusting: I share the ingredients for this, too.
Here's what you need for the homemade Velvet Mascarpone Cold Foam:
- Mascarpone cheese OR instant vanilla pudding powder: I initially tested this drink before
Starbucks ' official version came out and used real mascarpone cheese. However,Starbucks uses a vanilla custard powder. Instant pudding powder will work better than custard powder since it doesn't need to be cooked to blend well. I actually really like the slight tartness the mascarpone brings in, but I've tried and like both the mascarpone and pudding powder versions. - Vanilla syrup: store-bought or homemade with my vanilla syrup recipe.
- 2% milk
- Heavy cream
And here's what you need for the cocoa cookie topping:
- Cookies: I recommend ladyfingers, vanilla cookies, or shortbread cookies
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Instant espresso powder
If you make drinks with cold foams often, I highly recommend getting a frother (I love the one I have)!
☕️ Recipe tips
- You can make the mascarpone sweet cream in advance and keep it in a mason jar or airtight container in your fridge. When you're ready for your drink, whip it into a cold foam.
- Cold foams froth up best with really cold ingredients, so make sure you use cream and milk right out of the fridge. And if you make the sweet cream in advance, keep it chilled until ready to use.
- However, if you're making your cold foam with mascarpone, be sure to let it soften for a little bit before using it as it will be easier to blend it fully into the sweet cream mixture.
- If using mascarpone, start by whisking it into the vanilla syrup until it's completely smooth before adding the cold milk and cream.
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- If you're using the instant pudding powder, you can just add that along with the milk, cream, and vanilla syrup to the jar all at once and shake well.
- My cold foam in the images below was made with pudding powder and the cold foam in my cold brew post was made with mascarpone. You can see they're super similar with the pudding powder version being slightly more yellow and the mascarpone version tasting slightly more tart (I think in a good way).
- If you don't have a frother, you can make your cold foam in a blender or with a hand mixer. You can even just keep it in the mason jar and shake it vigorously. Your foam won't be quite as voluminous, but it will still give you a nice froth.
- Crush your cookies finely and mix together the cocoa powder and instant espresso powder in a small bowl.
- For all of the tiramisu drinks,
Starbucks is lining the inside rims of the cups with mocha sauce. I just use a squeeze bottle, hold the glass upside down, and drizzle the mocha sauce around the inner rim.
- To build the hot tiramisu latte, brew the espresso in the mocha-rimmed glass and stir in the vanilla syrup. Steam the 2% milk (you can do this however you want; in a steamer, in the microwave, on the stovetop, etc.) and pour it into the coffee.
- Top the drink with the cold foam, cookie crumbles, and cocoa and espresso powder mixture.
I've never made a hot latte with cold foam before and wasn't expecting it to sit so nicely on top of the drink.
It worked beautifully and there is something so fun about getting a little sip of cold foam followed by a hot latte. And the cocoa powder and espresso powder on top of the drink really bring it all together and make the drink taste just like tiramisu!
The Tiramisu Velvet Latte is a sweeter and obviously milkier drink than the cold brew and I think lots of
🎉 Variations
When you make this latte at home, you can make it exactly how you like it! Here are some fun ideas for variations on the recipe:
- If you prefer an iced latte, I'll be posting my Iced Tiramisu Latte recipe soon!
- Swap the 2% milk for the dairy or non-dairy alternative of your choice. Oat milk, almond milk, or whole milk would all work well.
- Use decaf espresso if you want to skip the caffeine.
- Use less milk and/or more espresso if you want a more coffee-forward drink.
- Add crushed cookies around the mocha rim.
- Drizzle mocha sauce over the top of the drink or mix it into the latte.
- Instead of vanilla syrup, try using my brown sugar syrup.
- Top the latte with chocolate shavings.
- Serve ladyfingers on the side of the drink for dunking.
- If you add a little rum extract to the drink, you'll get even more classic tiramisu flavor.
😍 More Starbucks hot latte recipes
It seems like
They've historically topped their lattes with whipped cream, but I'm all about the cold foam now!
And don't forget the 2026 non-coffee holiday drinks, like the Apple Pomegranate Refresher and the Snowy Apple Drink.
I'm absolutely thrilled with how close this Tiramisu Latte is to the
This is going to be such a hit throughout the holiday season and beyond!
📖 Recipe
Tiramisu Latte {Starbucks Copycat}
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Ingredients
- 1 ½ teaspoon mocha sauce for glass rim (store-bought or homemade with recipe linked in notes)
- 2 shots (2 oz) espresso or strongly brewed coffee
- 2 tablespoon vanilla syrup (store-bought or homemade with recipe linked in notes)
- 1 cup 2% milk
- ⅓ cup Velvet Mascarpone Cold Foam recipe below
- Cocoa Cookie Dusting recipe below
Velvet Mascarpone Cold Foam
- 3 tablespoon softened mascarpone cheese (see notes for ingredient amounts for pudding mix version of the cold foam)
- 2 ½ tablespoon vanilla syrup (store-bought or homemade with recipe linked in notes)
- ⅓ cup 2% milk
- ¼ cup heavy cream
Cocoa Cookie Dusting
- ¼ cup crushed cookies like lady fingers, vanilla cookies, or shortbread
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder
Instructions
- Drizzle mocha sauce around the inside rim of a heat-proof glass.
- Brew espresso (or coffee) into the mocha-rimmed glass and stir in the vanilla syrup.
- Steam milk to about 150-155 degrees F using an espresso machine, handheld frother, countertop frother, microwave, or stovetop.
- Pour steamed milk into espresso and syrup.
- Top drink with velvet mascarpone cold foam. Sprinkle cookie crumbs on top and then sift a dusting of the cocoa/espresso mixture over it.
Velvet Mascarpone Cold Foam
- If using real mascarpone cheese, in a mason jar or other airtight container, whisk together 3 tablespoon mascarpone and 2 ½ tablespoon vanilla syrup until completely smooth. Add ⅓ cup 2% milk and ¼ cup heavy cream to the container and shake vigorously to combine.
- If using instant pudding mix, simply add ½ cup heavy cream, ⅓ cup 2% milk, 2 tablespoon vanilla syrup, and 2 teaspoon instant vanilla pudding mix to a jar or other airtight container and shake vigorously to combine.
- This is your mascarpone cold cream... Keep it in the fridge until you're ready to turn it into cold foam right before using.
- To turn into foam, you can either use an electric frother, hand mixer, or blender with about ⅓ cup of the cold cream at a time. Alternatively, you can shake the mixture vigorously in a mason jar until it's frothy.
Cocoa Cookie Dusting
- Crush cookies finely. Set aside.
- In a separate small bowl, whisk together cocoa powder and espresso powder until well combined.
Notes
- Cold foam recipe with mascarpone should make enough for about 2 drinks. Turn it into cold foam in batches and keep the leftover sweet cream in an airtight container in your fridge until ready to use. It should stay fresh for about 3 days.
- If you want to make your cold foam with instant pudding mix instead of mascarpone, use:
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ⅓ cup 2% milk
- 2 tablespoon vanilla syrup
- 2 teaspoon instant vanilla pudding mix
- Cold foam with pudding mix should make enough for about 3 drinks and should stay fresh in your fridge for about 4 days.
- Cocoa Cookie Dusting recipe is enough for about 4 drinks.
- For homemade vanilla syrup, use this recipe.
- For homemade mocha sauce, use the recipe in this post.
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