La Colombe Strawberry Mocha Draft Latte Recipe

La Colombe's Strawberry Mocha Draft Latte was a limited-edition canned latte with strawberry flavouring and cocoa, sold in early 2025. A homemade version for two glasses: cook six ounces of strawberries with sugar into a quick syrup, then shake it hard with a cup of cold brew, a cup of cold milk, dissolved cocoa and ice until it foams.

What the Strawberry Mocha Draft Latte was

La Colombe announced it on 15 January 2025, ahead of Valentine's Day: a limited-edition Draft Latte made with natural strawberry flavouring and real cocoa, with half the sugar of the average flavoured coffee drink by the company's count, in stores through 15 April, from $3.29 a can.

A Draft Latte is the company's canned latte of cold-pressed espresso and frothed milk. The can has a valve in its base through which nitrous oxide is injected, as Wikipedia's article on La Colombe describes, and that gas makes the foam.

On 2 October 2026 the canned lattes on La Colombe's site include a Mocha Draft Latte and no Strawberry Mocha. A glass of the homemade version comes to about 175 calories by USDA figures. MakeFoodLovely is not connected with La Colombe.

Recipe

Strawberry Mocha Latte

A homemade version of La Colombe's Strawberry Mocha Draft Latte — cold brew and cold milk with cocoa and a fresh strawberry syrup, shaken with ice until frothy. Two glasses.

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Prep

10 min

Cook

8 min

Total

38 min

Serves

2

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• For the strawberry syrup:
• 6 ounces strawberries (hulled and sliced)
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 tablespoons water
• For the lattes:
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons hot water
• 1 cup cold brew coffee
• 1 cup cold whole milk
• 1 cup ice cubes

Instructions

1. Simmer the strawberries, the sugar and the 3 tablespoons of water in a small saucepan for 6 to 8 minutes, crushing the fruit, until it has collapsed into a red syrup. Press it through a fine sieve and let it cool for 20 minutes. It makes about 1/3 cup.
2. Stir the cocoa into the 2 tablespoons of hot water until smooth.
3. Put the cold brew, the milk, the cocoa mixture, the strawberry syrup and the ice in a jar or shaker with a tight lid.
4. Shake hard for 20 seconds, until the drink is cold and has a layer of foam on top. Strain into two glasses and drink at once.

Nutrition

Calories:

175

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.

Foam without a gas valve

Shaking does a smaller version of what the valve does. Milk proteins trap air when the drink is shaken hard with ice, and the foam holds for a few minutes. A jar with a lid is enough; a handheld milk frother run in the glass for 15 seconds works too.

The milk has to be cold. Warm milk gives a thin foam that collapses.

Strawberry mocha syrup in ten minutes

Fresh and frozen strawberries both work, and frozen ones need no thawing. Pressing the cooked fruit through a sieve takes out the seeds, which would otherwise settle at the bottom of the glass. The syrup keeps a week in the refrigerator, so a double batch makes four drinks over several days.

Bottled strawberry syrup can stand in: use 3 tablespoons for two glasses. The cocoa is dissolved in hot water first, because dry cocoa clumps in cold milk.

Cold brew, or espresso

A cup of cold brew at drinking strength is the simplest base. Four shots of espresso, cooled over the ice, give a stronger coffee taste. A shot made from instant coffee works as well, and the Nescafé Gold espresso page has the amounts.

Hot, and with oat milk

For a hot strawberry mocha, warm the milk with the cocoa mixture and the syrup until it steams, and pour it over 2 shots of hot espresso.

Oat milk can replace the milk. Strawberry as a cold foam on top of a coffee is the strawberry cold foam, and the two flavours as a creamer are the chocolate covered strawberry creamer.