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Starbucks Christmas drinks menu released. When is Red Cup Day?

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The Starbucks holiday menu is back, bringing new drinks and old favorites this season.

Here you can see what you can order.

When does the Starbucks Christmas menu 2024 start?

The Starbucks holiday menu starts today, November 7th. On it you will find:

Starbucks coffee and seasonal drinks

  • Cran Merry Orange Refresher: This new drink brings flavors of sweet orange, tart cranberry and warm spices, including notes of cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg. It is shaken with ice, water and real cranberries.
  • Cran-Merry Orange Lemonade Freshener: Another new offering combines the Cran-Merry Orange Refresher shaken with ice, lemonade and real cranberries.
  • Cran Merry drink: This new drink features the Cran-Merry Refresher with creamy coconut milk on ice and real cranberries. Like all Starbucks Refreshers, the Cran-Merry Orange Refreshers are enriched with green coffee extract from unroasted Arabica coffee beans.
  • Peppermint Mocha: The iconic drink consists of Starbucks espresso combined with steamed milk, mocha sauce and peppermint-flavored syrup, topped with whipped cream and dark chocolate chips. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Caramel Brûlée Latte: This drink combines Starbucks Espresso Shines with steamed milk and caramel brûlée sauce, topped with whipped cream and caramel brûlée topping. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Chestnut praline latte: The drink contains Starbucks espresso, steamed milk and flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices, as well as whipped cream and spiced praline crumbs. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Iced Sugar Cookie Almond Milk Latte: This drink combines cookie-flavored sugar syrup with Starbucks' Espresso Blonde, ice cream, and almond milk, topped with red and green sprinkles for a modern twist on a holiday classic. Available hot, iced and as a mixed Frappuccino drink.
  • Iced Gingerbread Oat Milk Chai: This drink combines chai spices, oat milk, and ice and is topped with dairy-free gingerbread-flavored cold foam and a spice topping.

Cold foam for the holidays from Starbucks

  • New gingerbread cream cold foam: Sweet and spicy gingerbread flavors mixed with the chain's signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Peppermint chocolate cream cold foam: Peppermint flavored syrup and chocolate malt powder mixed with Starbucks sweet vanilla cream.
  • Sugar cookie cream cold foam: Sugar cookie flavored syrup mixed with the signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Chestnut praline cream cold foam: Festive flavors of caramelized chestnuts and spices mixed with Starbucks' signature sweet vanilla cream.
  • Caramel Brûlée Cream Cold Foam: Rich caramel brûlée sauce mixed with sweet vanilla cream. Not available as dairy-free cold foam.

Starbucks Christmas dinner

  • New turkey sage Danish: A savory puff pastry filled with turkey sausage and a bechamel sauce.
  • New Dark Toffee Bundt: Toffee flavors mingle in a personal-sized Bundt cake.
  • New penguin cookie: A buttery shortbread cookie decorated with a festive penguin design.
  • New Snowman Cake Pop: Vanilla cake mixed with buttercream dipped in white chocolate frosting.
  • Danish sugar plum cheese: The cream cheese filling is surrounded by a piece of Danish, topped with a spiced sugar-plum spread.
  • Cranberry happiness bars: A dried cranberry blondie cake topped with a layer of cream cheese frosting, flecked with orange zest and a sprinkle of dried cranberries.

Seasonal coffee made from whole beans

  • Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend: Beans from Sumatra in Indonesia, Sidama in Ethiopia and the Antigua region of Guatemala are blended and roasted to create a delicately sweet cup. It will be the dark roast coffee available at participating U.S. stores during Thanksgiving week.
  • Starbucks Christmas Blend: Introduced in 1984, the Christmas blend is a combination of Latin American beans and mild Indonesian coffees with the addition of spicy Sumatran beans aged three to five years. The Christmas blend is also available in Blonde Roast with beans from Indonesia and coffees from East Africa. Both Starbucks Holiday Blend and Starbucks Holiday Blend Blonde are the dark and light roast coffees offered at participating stores most of the season.
  • Starbucks Christmas Blend: A balanced, sweet and roasted blend of Latin American beans and Sumatran coffee.

When will Starbucks Christmas cups be released?

With the launch of the Starbucks Christmas menu also comes the release of the Christmas cup collection for the year.

The new collection of mugs, mugs and cold cups includes:

  • Gemstone Cold Cup (24 oz.) and Keychain
  • Cold tumbler with navy blue gemstone (24 oz.) and ornament
  • Red Studded Cold Tumbler (24 oz.)
  • Candy Twist Mug (16 oz.)
  • Jade Green Studded Mug (12 oz.)
  • Red Ribbed Mug (12 oz.)
  • Luster Mug (12 oz.)
  • Pink Siren Scales Mug (16 oz.)
  • Striped Tumbler with Silicone Sleeve (20 oz.)
  • Color Changing Bead Hot Mug Set (6 Pack) (16 oz.)
  • Iridescent Glow-in-the-Dark Mother of Pearl Hot Cup (16 oz.)
  • Berry Pink Glitter Stanley Mug (40 oz.)

When is Starbucks Red Cup Day 2024?

On Red Cup Day, Starbucks customers who order a holiday drink will receive a free reusable cup.

Starbucks has not yet announced when Red Cup Day will take place this year. However, USA TODAY looked at Red Cup Day dates over the past five years to get a sense of when it might take place this year.

This data was:

  • 2023: Thursday, November 16th
  • 2022: Thursday, November 17th
  • 2021: Thursday, November 18th
  • 2020: Friday, November 6th
  • 2019: Thursday, November 7th

Based on this information, USA TODAY's best estimate is when Red Cup Day will take place in 2024 Thursday, November 14th.

What is Starbucks Red Cup Day?

In a nod to Starbucks' disposable red cups offered every holiday season, the company is giving away reusable cups on Red Cup Day that customers can bring to receive a 10 cent discount on their drink. Starbucks Rewards members who use the Starbucks app also receive a 25-star bonus.

How many Starbucks locations are there in Ohio?

Starbucks has hundreds of stores throughout the Buckeye State. One data scraping site put the total at 480. Another says it's 517.

To find the Starbucks near you, use the company's store locator.

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