Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte (Starbucks Copycat Recipe) - Oh, How Civilized (2024)

Recreate this refreshing Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte at home in a few minutes, the same way that Starbucks does!

Recipe Highlights

• Starbucks makes their Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte with Royal English Breakfast tea, 2% milk, liquid cane sugar, and ice. This recipe uses similar ingredients to make it taste just like the one at Starbucks.
• Teavana Royal English Breakfast tea is used by Starbucks but it’s not available anymore so the ones you see online are priced very high. Instead, Royal English Breakfast tea or regular English Breakfast tea is used and you won’t notice the difference in taste.
• This Starbucks copycat drink will be a grande sized (16 ounces) Iced Royal English Breakfast Tea Latte.

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Ingredient Notes

• English Breakfast tea: Since the Teavana tea bags that Starbucks uses is only available at a highly marked up price, use regular English Breakfast tea or Royal English Breakfast tea from another brand.
• White sugar: The drink at Starbucks is made with liquid cane sugar, which is a combo of white sugar and turbinado sugar.
• Turbinado sugar: Turbinado sugar is a raw cane sugar. It adds a deeper depth of flavor.
• 2% milk: Starbucks uses 2% milk by default in all their lattes (tea and coffee), but you can use any milk you like.
• Water: Using filtered water to steep your tea will give it a cleaner flavor.
• Ice: The same advice for water applies to ice. Using filtered water makes for a better tasting drink.

For full ingredients and detailed instructions, please see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Step-by-Step Instructions

Step 1: Put tea bags and hot water into a teapot. Cover and steep.

Boil water on the stovetop or use an electric kettle with a temperature setting.For best results, make tea ahead of time and chill in the refrigerator.

Step 2: Discard tea bags and stir in sugars. Make sure sugars are completely dissolved.

Step 3: Put tea, milk, and ice into a co*cktail shaker. Shake.

Step 4: Pour contents of co*cktail shaker into a cup.

Recipe Notes

Royal English Breakfast tea tastes pretty much the same as English Breakfast tea.
Royal English Breakfast tea is a blend of a black tea from India and a black tea from Africa. English Breakfast tea is a blend of black teas and every company creates a different blend. Once the tea is combined with milk and sugar, the black teas will pretty much all taste the same.

Make English Breakfast tea ahead of time.
Steep the tea, remove the tea bags, and keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container. Tea (no sugar or anything else) can be stored for up to 4 days.

There are 2 sugars in liquid cane syrup.
This recipe replaces liquid cane sugar syrup with white sugar and turbinado sugar to give it the same flavor and sweetness, without having to use a syrup.

No co*cktail shaker?
The baristas at Starbucks handshake their tea lattes in a large plastic co*cktail shaker, which is why it has that nice foamy layer on the top. If you don’t already have a co*cktail shaker, you can use a large jar with a tight lid. Just make sure it is large enough to shake 16 ounces of liquid plus ice and some room for shaking.

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Expert Tips

• Use tea bags or tea sachets instead of loose tea for mess-free steeping. Since you’re adding milk and sugar, the tea quality doesn’t have to be the best.
• To cool down the tea quickly after steeping it in hot water, Starbucks shakes the hot tea with ice in a co*cktail shaker, which is the same method I’m using for this drink.
• Customize this tea latte with cold foam. Top the drink with a homemade vanilla sweet cream cold foam since it pairs nicely with the English Breakfast tea.

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