Homemade Starbucks Passion Tea Lemonade
When I’m not in the coffee mood (which is rare), I love trying some of the cold tea beverages at Starbucks. For those of you who haven’t tried it, there’s this delicious passion fruit tea they make with lemonade and syrups. It’s amazing, BUT there’s way too much sugar in there!
I decided to make it my way…and not only did it have an almost identical flavour, there are NO calories, NO carbs, and not one gram of sugar! What!
And yo, it’s much cheaper! It’s four dollars for a venti passion tea lemonade. A little much for me.
Get the Starbucks, Teavana (or Tazo) passion tea (that’s where it costs a little bit) and you can make several batches. Granted, there are other cheaper fruit teas you could try, but I was trying to replicate the drink completely.
Passion Tea Lemonade
- 1/3 part hot water
- 1/3 part cold water
- 1/3 part ice cubes
- 1 Passion tea bag
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 10 drops lemon stevia*
- 20 drops cherry vanilla stevia
Brew the tea bag in with the hot water for several minutes. Add lemon juice and stevia drops. Add in ice and a straw and boom. You’re done.
*I used NuNaturals lemon and cherry vanilla stevia – but you can use a plain flavoured one as well, it just adds a nice little bit of extra “punchy” flavour!
This is incredibly refreshing on a hot summers day!
Mmmmm!
What’s your cold Starbucks drink of choice? I bet I can recreate it for you!
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I have an insane (and expensive!) Starbucks habit so I love finding DIY Starbucks recipes!
Thanks for sharing :D
I tend to buy just a basic hot tea or poured over ice when I go to Starbucks (just the tea bag and water). I actually don’t go very often, but when I go this time of year, I pick out that Passion tea bag, too. It’s so pretty.
This isn’t a Starbucks drink, but I LOVE freckled lemonade from Red Robin – can you recreate it without refined sugar? (I prefer using maple syrup or honey for sweetener – haven’t jumped on the Stevia band-wagon as I tried it once and didn’t like the after-taste.)
AmandaQ – That sounds amazing. I will be trying to recreate this!