Starbucks Just Announced Even More Holiday Drinks Being Added To Their Menu In December

From the beginning of pumpkin spice season and through to the new year, Starbucks and their festive, celebratory flavors really shine. This year in particular, they have been on a roll with the new flavors that they are debuting alongside returning favorites. We already saw an all-new banana bread flavor in fall in addition to the one-week-only release of the Black Cat Frappuccino. And, they added two new flavors with four different drink options for the release of their holiday menu on November 5 including the all-new Tiramisu Velvet and Apple Pomegranate flavors. 

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Now, just mere days after we could finally get our hands on the Starbucks holiday menu, Starbucks announced that starting December 1 the company would be adding three all-new drinks to the menu as well as an exclusive, limited-edition holiday Frappuccino for the week of Christmas. So let’s break down this exciting news together, shall we?

A Holly-Jolly December

Honestly, folks, I have to say that these new drink additions came as a complete and utter surprised us. To be frank, Starbucks is going out of their way to spoil us with options this year, and each of them feel more celebratory than the next. Starting off strong with these new holiday menu additions is the Snowcap Marshmallow flavor. Across all three drinks being offered in the Snowcap Marshmallow collection, each is topped with a melted marshmallow-flavored cold foam and a crispy chocolate cookie topping. But, it’s still easily customizable to your taste since they’re offering it in the form of three different drinks. 

If you’re really just in the market for some classic winter flavors, the Snowcap Marshmallow Hot Chocolate takes the classic Starbucks hot chocolate base and tops it in the Snowcap Marshmallow fashion to give it more of a festive flourish and amp up those inherent flavors of a good hot cocoa.

If the hot cocoa sounds like a bit of you, but you still need your morning dose of caffeine (hey, I can’t say I blame you), then they offer the Snowcap Marshmallow Mocha, too, that adds espresso into the Starbucks-style hot chocolate that is made with mocha sauce and steamed milk. The mocha version of the drink also has both a hot and iced version available.

I can’t say I really expected matcha to be the third type of drink in this collection since chai seems like the obvious drink base to turn to, but Starbucks sure has been trying to keep it interesting. Now, if you wanted to see what the intersection of matcha and marshmallow tastes like, then this will be the drink for you. Starbucks’ improved matcha latte is topped with the melted-marshmallow cold foam and crispy chocolate cookie topping to give matcha a festive twist this holiday season.

A Very Festive Frappuccino Joins The Party

After the launch of the Black Cat Frappuccino this year, we were admittedly a little curious to see if they were going to try out a similar concept when it came time for the December holidays. Now, that suspicion has become a reality. On December 17, the Merry Berry Frappuccino will join the menu through Christmas. The Frappuccino is made with their white chocolate mocha sauce and layered with strawberry purée and raspberry syrup. Much like the Black Cat Frappuccino, this Christmas version is topped with an exclusive decoration. But instead of black cat ears made of chocolate, the Merry Berry Frappuccino is garnishing their whipped cream swirls with vanilla-flavored red bow cookies. The creamy, fruity drink looks perfectly on-theme for the holiday season.