close
close

When does Starbucks’ Christmas menu start in 2024? Here’s what you can order now

play

Whether you’re craving peppermint, gingerbread, chestnut, or even cranberry, these flavors are now on the seasonal menu at Starbucks.

Today is the first day you can order anything from Starbucks’ holiday menu, and the company dropped its holiday offerings list on Wednesday evening.

Here’s what you should know.

Here are Starbucks’ 2024 holiday specials. New to the drinks menu this year are:

  • Cran-Merry Orange Refresher: Aromas of sweet orange, tart cranberry and warm spices, including notes of cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg, shaken with ice, water and real cranberries.
  • Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Freshener: Combine the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher shaken with ice, lemonade and real cranberries.
  • Cran Merry drink: Contains the Cran-Merry Refresher with creamy coconut milk on ice and real cranberries.

Recurring favorite drinks include:

  • Peppermint Mocha: Featuring Starbucks Signature Espresso combined with steamed milk, mocha sauce and peppermint flavored syrup, topped with whipped cream and dark chocolate chips. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Caramel Brulée Latte: Combines Starbucks Signature Espresso with steamed milk and rich caramel brûlée sauce, topped with whipped cream and caramel brûlée topping. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Chestnut praline latte: Featuring Starbucks Signature Espresso, steamed milk and flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices, topped with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Iced Sugar Cookie Almond Milk Latte: Sugar cookie flavored syrup combined with Starbucks Blonde Espresso, ice cream and almond milk, topped with red and green sprinkles. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Iced Gingerbread Oat Milk Chai: Combines warm chai spices, creamy oat milk and ice cream and is topped with dairy-free gingerbread-flavored cold foam and a spice topping.

The holiday menu also features a variety of foods, including:

  • Turkey sage Danish: A hearty puff pastry filled with turkey sausage and a creamy béchamel sauce.
  • Dark Toffee Bundt: Intense toffee flavors mingle in a personal-sized Bundt cake.
  • Penguin cookie: A buttery shortbread cookie decorated with a cheerful penguin design.
  • Snowman Cake Pop: Vanilla cake with buttercream dipped in white chocolate icing.
  • Sugar plum cheese Danish: The cream cheese filling is surrounded by a fluffy Danish pastry and garnished with a spiced sugar-plum spread.
  • Cranberry Bliss Bar: A blondie cake with dried cranberries, finished with a layer of cream cheese frosting, flecked with orange zest and a sprinkle of dried cranberries.

In addition to the new and returning drinks, customers can also enjoy a “variety of new and returning” cold brews to complement Starbucks cold brew or iced coffee, the company said in the announcement.

These cold foams can be made dairy-free and added as a customization for an additional charge, according to Starbucks. The flavors are listed below with a description from the company.

  • Gingerbread cream cold foam: Sweet and deliciously spicy gingerbread flavors mixed with Starbucks’ signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Peppermint chocolate cream cold foam: Peppermint-flavored syrup and chocolate malt powder mixed with Starbucks’ signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Sugar cookie cold foam: Cookie-flavored sugar syrup mixed with Starbucks’ signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Chestnut praline cream cold foam: Festive flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices mixed with Starbucks’ signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Caramel brulée creme cold foam: Rich caramel brûlée sauce mixed with Starbucks’ signature vanilla sweet cream; Not available as dairy-free cold foam.

Starbucks also introduced three exclusive, limited-edition seasonal blends that will be available in November and December.

  • The Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend is, according to the company, “an expression of gratitude to the world’s most distinctive coffee regions” and is described as “elegantly flavorful and aromatic.” The blend features notes of candied pecan, sage and dried fig, Starbucks said in the press release.
  • The Starbucks Christmas Blend Returning for its 40th year, the company says it combines Latin American beans and mild Indonesian coffees. The finishing touch, according to Starbucks, was the addition of spicy Sumatran beans that were aged for three to five years to produce a “full-bodied, flavorful and rich cup of coffee.”
  • The Starbucks Christmas Blend is a “balanced, sweet and roasted blend” of bright Latin American beans and rich Sumatran coffee, according to Starbucks.

All three blends will be available as whole beans throughout the holiday season, while stocks last at participating stores.

According to a company press release, Starbucks’ holiday menu will be available again on Thursday, November 7, 2024.

You may also like...