- So today I'm gonna be making a DIY Starbucks frappuccino.
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It is time for the official taste test.
Good luck you guys.
♪ It's time for coffee ♪
Hey guys, I am Danielle Tullo,
Deputy Editor at Seventeen.com.
I am generally obsessed with all things DIY,
especially lately, because I spend
most of my time on TikTok,
so I'm pretty much influenced to try, everything DIY.
If you're anything like me,
you need to start your day with a good cup of coffee.
Obviously going to Starbucks all the time
gets a little bit expensive,
so this is a great budget friendly option,
a way to save some money,
but still have a delicious way to start your day.
So I like to make the whipped cream first,
this way when my drink is ready,
it's not just sitting there
'cause then, you know, it gets a little warm.
So at least then the whipped cream is ready to go.
All that you need for the whipped cream
is heavy whipping cream and sugar.
That's it, two ingredients, super easy.
I have my heavy whipping cream and I have my sugar.
All I have to do is put into a bowl and whip it up.
So my heavy whipping cream, I'm gonna pour it in.
Yum.
Sugar.
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And we just whip it.
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There's probably a way to be less messy,
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but I don't know how to be not messy.
So I have this ready, you can throw it in the fridge
and we'll make our frappuccino.
All you need is coffee, ice, vanilla extract,
syrup and milk.
I use oak milk, you can use whatever milk you want
and that's it, so easy.
So I'm gonna take my cup of ice
and I have my blender, obviously.
So this is a Magic Bullet.
You can use literally whatever blender,
you could even use the hand mixer that I use
to make the whipped cream,
whatever works.
I'm gonna make my coffee again,
you can use whatever coffee you want,
I have my Keurig coffee.
I do use Starbucks,
so it's pretty authentic.
And then we're gonna make the biggest setting
that you can on the Keurig.
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While that's brewing,
I'm gonna pour in my oat milk into my Magic Bullet.
Oh God, this smells so good, I wanna drink it all, okay.
So I'm gonna do the very obvious thing,
which is pour my coffee into this.
It's gonna sound so good
because you're gonna hear the ice crackling.
Ooh, don't spill it
like I did.
So once you have your ice, milk, coffee,
all in your little Magic Bullet,
or whatever you're using,
you're then gonna take sugar.
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You could add in as much sugar
or as little sugar as you'd like,
that is the beauty of DIYing everything.
Next vanilla extract,
you want just a little splash of this.
I love vanilla extract.
I could probably do more than a little splash of it.
Turns out that opening vanilla extract is the hardest part
of this entire DIY.
So vanilla extract, gonna do a little splash or two.
All right, it's blending time.
I have this little magic bullet,
I want to say it's like $30 on Amazon.
It's great.
It's small,
it stores really nicely.
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Oh yeah.
Oh my God,
it smells like Starbucks.
Ready to go, time to serve this.
I like to use a reusable Starbucks cup,
you can use any type of reusable cup.
They make so many cute ones on Etsy, honestly,
but I got this one at my Starbucks a few years ago
and I have been using it ever since.
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All right.
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Ooh.
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Yum, okay.
Looks so good.
Now I'm going to top this bad boy off
with some whipped cream and some chocolate syrup.
I think
I'm a chef.
All right.
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I basically,
wow, I am,
this is so good.
Okay.
Why is whipped cream so good.
Now I'm gonna take some,
get this open.
Oh, it's open.
This I feel like I want to be like a true artist with.
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Oh yeah.
Wow.
Just perfect,
a little drip going down the side.
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Okay.
It is so delicious and so good.
Oh my God.
I feel like I'm,
once you make this you might not ever
want to make a Starbucks run for a frappuccino ever again.
So if you don't have the time
or the patience to do the other DIY frappuccino,
I saw this trick on TikTok
and you can actually just buy this,
the store bought frappuccino,
you can get it at the grocery store CVS, Target,
all the places,
buy this, pour it over ice, blend it up
and you have a frappuccino.
So I don't know which one's gonna be better,
but I do want to try it out.
The sound of opening this is so satisfying.
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Oh, love that sound!
I love the smell.
This feels like the cheater's version.
I'm not throwing shade at it because I haven't tried it yet,
but it's cheating,
but it's fine, but it's cheating.
Okay.
Get my blender again.
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All right, see what we have.
All right.
It looks, it looks pretty legit.
The DIY one is probably still better.
Whipped cream for the full effect.
Oh my God, I can perfect these skills.
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Perfect.
It's great for a quick fix,
easy, low lift frappuccino,
buy like, you can get these in four packs,
buy a four pack, last you a week almost.
All right,
it is time for the official taste test of these two.
We have the TikTok half store-bought version,
which is really fast and easy
and then we have the true DIY
make it yourself version of the Starbucks frappuccino.
Good luck you guys, you're both winners
'cause you're both delicious, but
with these purposes only one can be a true winner today.
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Okay, delicious.
Tastes just like what you expect it to taste like,
true frappuccino.
Kind of really sweet though,
a little too sweet for me.
I might be biased because I like the one that I like
really made from scratch, but let's see.
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Okay.
The verdict.
This tastes more like coffee,
like if you want, like, if you love coffee,
like the taste of coffee, make this drink,
it tastes like a delicious dessert coffee drink,
make this.
If you want like a sweet dessert, make this
and obviously make this if you are feeling kind of lazy,
have this in the fridge and want a frappuccino, go for it,
but this I would definitely say
is like a true coffee drink,
something that I could probably see myself
drinking in the morning,
maybe I cut the chocolate syrup
'cause that makes a little bit more desserty,
but yeah, I would definitely say
this is like true coffee,
this is still really delicious,
'cause TikTok, TikTok doesn't lie.
So it is really good, but it's not the one for me.
I'm gonna go drink this and this.
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