

That's another reason to credit this roast.

Along with its release in 2008, Starbucks changed its rules regarding coffee-making to ensure freshness: It began to require employees to grind the beans immediately before brewing and make a new pot every 30 minutes, according to the company. It's named for the original Seattle location of its first store, inside of the Pike Place farmers market. This last roast is the chain's signature black coffee. Today, you can find several varieties of hot coffee on the Starbucks menu: Blonde Roast, Dark Roast, Decaf, and Pike Place to name a few. From coffee classics and Frappuccinos to multi-ingredient tea lattes, here are the most popular Starbucks drinks, ranked worst to best. It also embraced its complicated drink reputation, and a few of these famous Starbucks beverages have risen above the rest. The company closed over 600 locations during the pandemic, mainly in shopping malls and cities, to focus on suburban drive-thru locations, according to Eat This, Not That. While other shops have taken the place of Starbucks (which has been around for far longer) as the "fancy" coffee option, the Seattle-based stalwart has persevered through its many changes. For the past 20 years, plenty of consumers have become more comfortable with spending (at least) $4 on a cup of coffee. It signifies chains like Blue Bottle Coffee, Intelligentsia, Stumptown - the types of spots where the cool kids tend to congregate (via Bloomberg). That may be due to the third wave of coffee, which refers to any business opened after 2000 that traffics in high quality java (via Los Angeles Times). It’s better than Starbucks.Īnd if you are looking for more tasty coffee drinks, try my Pumpkin Spice Latte (Two Ways!), Eggnog Latte, Easy Homemade Mocha, and White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha.But somehow, most of these Starbucks jokes have become a thing of the past. The finished product has a robust caramel flavor but isn’t too artificially sweet the way so many caramel creamers are. So if you keep heavy cream on hand (which I do), you can make these any time you feel like it (which I definitely shouldn’t). You whip up the caramel yourself in five minutes flat. This recipe is both wonderful and terrible because you are not limited by whether or not you have caramel sauce at home to make it. Plus, YOU can control the level of sweetness which is always my biggest beef with Starbucks drinks.Īnd I know this doesn’t technically qualify as an authentic macchiato because it simply uses cream instead of foamed milk and strong black coffee rather than espresso, but Starbucks plurals their panini “paninis,” so they’re not exactly a paragon of Italian authenticity either. I find the homemade flavors a little brighter, a little stronger.

To be 100% honest, my Starbucks drink of choice is their white chocolate mocha, but I did try one of their caramel macchiatos just so I could compare the two, and I definitely prefer this one. My mother, being a huge Starbucks fan took one sip and said, “Hey, this is better than Starbucks!” And thus, this post was born. I hate wasting food, so I started putting it on everything, including my mom’s morning coffee. While the family was all together for the holidays, I made caramel sauce for one of our pies and had a ton left over. Some of the recipes I post go through careful planning and consideration before they come forth into the world. The photos in this post have been updated. Easy to make from scratch and absolutely delicious! A completely homemade copycat Starbucks Caramel Macchiato recipe.
