Brown Sugar Shaken Espresso Creamer Recipe

The Starbucks brown sugar shaken espresso creamer is an oat milk creamer flavoured with brown sugar and a hint of cinnamon, at 30 calories a tablespoon. To make it at home, simmer three quarters of a cup of brown sugar with a third of a cup of water and a cinnamon stick for five minutes, let it stand, and shake the syrup with oat milk and vanilla.

What the Starbucks brown sugar creamer is

Starbucks announced it on 17 January 2025 as one of its first oat milk creamers for grocery stores, named after the brown sugar shaken espresso from its cafés. The product page describes oat milk with flavours of sweet brown sugar and a hint of cinnamon and lists oat milk, sugar, coconut oil, pea protein, potassium citrate, baking soda, natural flavours and gellan gum. A tablespoon has 30 calories, 1 gram of fat and 5 grams of sugars.

The copy comes to about 25 calories and 5 grams of sugar per tablespoon by USDA figures; it has no coconut oil. It is a reconstruction from the label, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Starbucks.

Recipe

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Oat Creamer

A reconstruction of Starbucks' Brown Sugar Shaken Espresso Inspired oat milk creamer — brown sugar syrup with cinnamon, oat milk and vanilla. About 2 cups, or 32 servings of one tablespoon.

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Prep

5 min

Cook

8 min

Total

35 min

Serves

32

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 1/4 cups oat milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Put the brown sugar, the water and the cinnamon stick in a small saucepan over medium heat and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
2. Lower the heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes.
3. Take the pan off the heat and let the syrup stand with the cinnamon stick for 15 minutes.
4. Take out the cinnamon stick. Pour the syrup into a jar or bottle, add the oat milk and the vanilla, close it and shake.
5. Refrigerate, and shake again before each use.

Nutrition

Calories:

25

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

A cinnamon stick, not ground cinnamon

Ground cinnamon does not dissolve. In a creamer it floats, clumps and settles as a sludge at the bottom of the cup. A stick simmered in the syrup and left to stand in it gives the flavour and nothing else.

Without a stick, whisk 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon into the hot syrup and pour the syrup through a coffee filter before the oat milk goes in.

The shaken espresso, with the creamer

1. Fill a jar that has a lid halfway with ice.
2. Add 2 shots of hot espresso and 3 tablespoons of the creamer.
3. Close the jar and shake hard for 15 seconds, until the outside is cold and the top is foamy.
4. Pour everything into a glass and top it up with 1/3 cup of oat milk.

With strong brewed coffee in place of espresso, use 1/2 cup. Dunkin's version of the drink is on the brown sugar shaken espresso page.

Two brown sugar oat creamers

	Starbucks	Trader Joe's
Calories per tablespoon	30	25
Sugars per tablespoon	5 g	4 g
Fat on the label	Coconut oil	Sunflower oil
Cinnamon	A hint	None listed

The figures are from the Starbucks page above and from Trader Joe's product page. The copy of the second one is the Trader Joe's brown sugar oat creamer: less sugar and no cinnamon.

A week, and a shake

The creamer keeps a week in the refrigerator, and not past the date on the oat milk. The syrup settles, so shake the jar before pouring.

The same oat milk base with a different syrup gives the lavender creamer.