On Wednesday, Starbucks introduced its holiday menu for 2024, showcasing the return of beloved seasonal drinks such as the Peppermint Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, and Chestnut Praline Latte, along with new refreshers and pastries.

Starting Thursday, Nov. 7, customers across the nation can enjoy a range of new offerings, including:

• Cran-Merry Orange Refresher: This drink features sweet orange, tart cranberry, and warm spices like cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg, mixed with ice, water, and real cranberries.
• Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Refresher: A blend of the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher with lemonade and ice, also including real cranberries.
• Cran-Merry Drink: This option combines the Cran-Merry Refresher with creamy coconut milk served over ice and real cranberries.

Additionally, several favorite drinks are making a comeback on the holiday menu, such as:

• Peppermint Mocha: A combination of Starbucks Signature Espresso, steamed milk, mocha sauce, and peppermint syrup, topped with whipped cream and dark chocolate curls; available hot, iced, or as a Frappuccino blended beverage.
• Caramel Brulée Latte: This drink blends Starbucks Signature Espresso with steamed milk and a rich caramel brulée sauce, finished with whipped cream and caramel brulée topping; available hot, iced, or as a Frappuccino blended beverage.
• Chestnut Praline Latte: Featuring Starbucks Signature Espresso and steamed milk, this drink is infused with flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices, topped with whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs; available hot, iced, or as a Frappuccino blended beverage.
• Iced Sugar Cookie Almondmilk Latte: A refreshing mix of sugar cookie syrup, Starbucks Blonde Espresso, ice, and almond milk, garnished with festive red and green sprinkles; available hot, iced, or as a Frappuccino blended beverage.
• Iced Gingerbread Oatmilk Chai: This drink combines warm chai spices and creamy oat milk with ice, topped off with non-dairy gingerbread-flavored cold foam and a spice topping.

The holiday menu will also showcase various food items, including:

• Turkey Sage Danish: A savory pastry filled with turkey sausage and a creamy béchamel sauce.
• Dark Toffee Bundt: A personal-sized bundt cake with rich toffee flavors.
• Penguin Cookie: A shortbread cookie featuring a charming penguin design.
• Snowman Cake Pop: A delightful blend of vanilla cake and buttercream, covered in white chocolaty icing.
• Sugar Plum Cheese Danish: A soft Danish filled with cream-cheese and topped with a spiced sugarplum spread.
• Cranberry Bliss Bar: A blondie cake filled with dried cranberries and topped with cream cheese icing and orange zest, sprinkled with more cranberries.

Seasonal Cold Foams and Holiday Blends Now at Starbucks

Besides the new and returning beverages, Starbucks is also offering a selection of cold foams to enhance their Cold Brew or iced coffee, according to their announcement.

These cold foams can be adjusted to be non-dairy for an additional fee. The following flavors are available:

• Gingerbread Cream Cold Foam: A blend of sweet gingerbread flavors with Starbucks signature vanilla sweet cream.
• Peppermint Chocolate Cream Cold Foam: Peppermint syrup and chocolate malt powder mixed with Starbucks signature vanilla sweet cream.
• Sugar Cookie Cold Foam: Sugar cookie flavor combined with Starbucks signature vanilla sweet cream.
• Chestnut Praline Cream Cold Foam: Festive notes of caramelized chestnuts and spices with Starbucks signature vanilla sweet cream.
• Caramel Brulée Cream Cold Foam: Rich caramel brulée sauce mixed with Starbucks signature vanilla sweet cream; note that this flavor is not available as non-dairy.

Starbucks has also launched three limited edition seasonal blends that will be available during November and December.

The Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend is described as “an expression of gratitude to the world’s most distinctive coffee regions” and features a flavorful and aromatic profile with notes of candied pecan, sage, and dried fig.

The Starbucks Christmas Blend returns for its 40th year, blending Latin American beans with mellow Indonesian coffees. The finishing touches come from the company. Starbucks has introduced a blend featuring spicy Sumatra beans, aged between three to five years, aiming to deliver a “full-bodied, spicy, and rich cup of coffee.”

The Starbucks Holiday Blend is described as a “balanced, sweet, and toasty blend” combining vibrant Latin American beans with the robust flavor of Sumatran coffee.

You can find all three blends available as whole beans throughout the holiday season at select stores, while supplies last.

Starbucks Reveals 2024 Holiday Cups

To mark the onset of the holiday season, Starbucks has unveiled a brand new collection of holiday cups.

In preparation for the holiday season launch on November 7, Starbucks aims to spread joy to customers enjoying their favorite warm or cold drinks.

“We cherish these genuine moments of joy and coffee that spark our creativity,” stated Kristy Cameron, Starbucks’ creative director. “Whether it’s observing coffee trees thrive, watching beans roast, toasting with cups, or admiring lights shine, we wanted to convey the warmth of our coffeehouse and the excitement of the red cups’ arrival to our customers and partners.”

To create the colors of the new cups, Starbucks chose to blend their signature green with a festive cranberry red.

“We are thrilled to embrace greens this year,” Cameron remarked. “The jade green is bright and lively, and we appreciate how it reflects our brand colors, infusing joy into our holiday cups this season.”

This year’s theme, “Merrier Together,” celebrates the community aspect of the holidays, emphasizing the unity that comes through singing. “We continually thought about this idea of voices harmonizing, similar to our siren singing,” Cameron elaborated. “It carries a musical quality.”