Apple Brown Sugar Syrup (Starbucks Copycat)

Starbucks copycat apple brown sugar syrup in a jar with a spoon in it.

Apple Brown Sugar Syrup (Starbucks Copycat)

If you're a fan of Starbucks apple crisp drinks for fall, you can make the apple brown sugar syrup at home! Our recipe uses simple ingredients and makes great apple crisp macchiatos at home. This syrup is also naturally gluten free and dairy free.

Makes about 1⅓ cups of syrup (about 22 Tablespoons). Nutrition estimate is only for the syrup, not the apple crisp oat milk latte.

Course Condiments, Sauces, & Spreads, Drinks

Cuisine American

Keyword apple brown sugar syrup, apple crisp oatmilk machiatto

Prep Time 3

Cook Time 15

Cooling time 20

Total Time 38

Servings Tablespoons

Calories 62kcal

Author Sarah Jane Parker

Ingredients

Apple brown sugar syrup:

1 cup pressed apple cider (this is not apple cider vinegar, but pressed and unfiltered apple juice)
1½ cup packed light brown sugar
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar* (this helps prevent sugar crystals)
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Making an apple brown sugar latte:

2 shots fresh brewed espresso
2 Tablespoons apple brown sugar syrup
Ice
6 to 8 ounces creamy oat milk

Instructions

Making the apple brown sugar syrup:

Shake your apple cider to make sure all the sediment is mixed into your cider, and measure out 1 cup of cider into a 1-quart saucepan.
Add the brown sugar to the apple cider in the saucepan, add the cream of tartar, whisk, and heat over medium heat until it begins to boil.
Reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
Remove from the heat, whisk in the ground cinnamon and allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then pour into a glass jar or bottle to cool completely.
Store in the fridge.

Making an apple crisp oat milk latte:

Add 2 shots of hot, fresh brewed espresso to a cup, stir in 2 Tablespoons of the apple brown sugar syrup.
Add ice and top with about 6-8 ounces of oat milk. Stir and serve immediately.

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Notes

*The cream of tartar helps to prevent re-crystallization of sugar when it's stored in the fridge. You can skip this, however your syrup may get gritty. If you don't have cream of tartar you can stir in 1 tablespoon light corn syrup (the regular kind like Karo, not high fructose corn syrup) one the syrup is done cooking.

The apple cider used in this recipe is the unfiltered and pressed apple juice, not the already sweetened and spiced apple cider you'd find in packets. Pure apple cider is basically pressed apple juice that is unfiltered.

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