Starbucks Holiday Drinks Calories 2026: Every Holiday Drink by Size, Ranked

A Grande Peppermint Mocha is 440 calories with 54g of sugar and 13g of protein. Across Starbucks' 2026 holiday drinks, a Grande runs from 130 (Snowy Apple Drink) to 480 (Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha). The heaviest size is a Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha at 620. Every number below is Starbucks' own, by size, ranked, with lighter swaps.

Want a drink that is not on this list? The Starbucks calorie calculator covers the whole menu, holiday drinks included.

Where these numbers come from

Every number here comes from Starbucks' official US menu, read from the same data that powers the product pages on starbucks.com on November 5, 2026. Each size has its own published nutrition panel, so nothing is scaled or estimated.

The holiday lineup is what Starbucks itself labels as holiday: its "Holiday Classics" menu (Peppermint Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, Sugar Cookie Latte, Iced Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha, Iced Gingerbread Chai, Caramel Brulée Chai), plus the drinks whose official descriptions call them holiday or festive, like the Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha, Gingerbread Latte, Tiramisu Velvet drinks, Snowy Apple Drink and the two peppermint hot chocolates. The Peppermint Mocha and Caramel Brulée Frappuccinos are included because they carry the same holiday flavors.

A few things people search for are not here. The Chestnut Praline Latte is not listed as a drink on the US menu as of November 5 (Chestnut Praline syrup is listed only as an add-in option), and there is no Holiday White Chocolate drink on the menu. The Iced Pecan Sticky Bun Latte is listed but has no published nutrition, so it is left out rather than guessed.

Every Starbucks holiday drink ranked (Grande)

Lowest to highest calories, Grande (16 fl oz), standard recipe:

Drink	Calories	Sugar	Protein	Caffeine
Snowy Apple Drink	130	23g	0g	50mg
Gingerbread Chai	200	29g	8g	60mg
Iced Sugar Cookie Latte	210	31g	8g	195mg
Sugar Cookie Latte	260	37g	11g	170mg
Caramel Brulée Chai	280	51g	7g	55mg
Iced Gingerbread Latte	300	28g	9g	170mg
Gingerbread Latte	310	33g	12g	170mg
Iced Gingerbread Chai	310	41g	7g	60mg
Iced Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha	330	38g	9g	50mg
Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew	330	37g	3g	190mg
Caramel Brulée Frappuccino	400	58g	4g	90mg
Iced Caramel Brulée Cream Chai	400	58g	8g	60mg
Iced Caramel Brulée Latte	400	44g	8g	150mg
Caramel Brulée Latte	410	48g	12g	150mg
Iced Peppermint Mocha	420	49g	9g	175mg
Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino	430	63g	5g	110mg
Peppermint Hot Chocolate	440	56g	13g	25mg
Peppermint Mocha	440	54g	13g	175mg
Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha	460	61g	10g	150mg
Tiramisu Velvet Latte	460	55g	11g	115mg
Iced Tiramisu Velvet Latte	470	56g	11g	115mg
Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha	480	66g	14g	150mg
Peppermint White Hot Chocolate	480	67g	13g	2mg

That is a 350-calorie spread between the lightest and heaviest Grande. The pattern is easy to read: the sugar cookie and gingerbread drinks sit at the light end, the caramel brulée drinks land around 400, and anything with peppermint plus chocolate, or the new tiramisu foam, sits at 420 to 480.

Two surprises. The Iced Sugar Cookie Latte is the third-lightest Grande but has the most caffeine on the list (195mg), more than the hot Grande (170mg) with the same 2 shots. And the Peppermint White Hot Chocolate has only 2mg of caffeine, so it is the late-afternoon pick if you want the full holiday treat without the jitters.

Holiday drink calories by size

Starbucks publishes a separate panel for each size. Hot drinks come in Short (8 oz), Tall (12), Grande (16) and Venti (20). Iced drinks skip the Short, and an iced Venti is a 24 oz cup.

Drink	Short	Tall	Grande	Venti
Snowy Apple Drink	-	90	130	200
Gingerbread Chai	90	140	200	260
Iced Sugar Cookie Latte	-	160	210	300
Sugar Cookie Latte	120	190	260	330
Caramel Brulée Chai	140	210	280	350
Iced Gingerbread Latte	-	220	300	380
Gingerbread Latte	160	230	310	380
Iced Gingerbread Chai	-	230	310	410
Iced Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha	-	240	330	400
Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew	-	250	330	340
Caramel Brulée Frappuccino	-	270	400	490
Iced Caramel Brulée Cream Chai	-	310	400	510
Iced Caramel Brulée Latte	-	300	400	520
Caramel Brulée Latte	220	310	410	500
Iced Peppermint Mocha	-	310	420	560
Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino	-	300	430	530
Peppermint Hot Chocolate	230	330	440	530
Peppermint Mocha	240	350	440	540
Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha	-	340	460	620
Tiramisu Velvet Latte	300	380	460	530
Iced Tiramisu Velvet Latte	-	400	470	570
Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha	250	360	480	580
Peppermint White Hot Chocolate	250	360	480	580

The Snowy Apple Drink and Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew also come in a 30 oz Trenta: 250 and 380 calories.

Watch the iced Venti. The Iced Peppermint Mocha is 20 calories lighter than the hot one in a Grande (420 vs 440), but 20 heavier in a Venti (560 vs 540), because the bigger iced cup gets 6 pumps of peppermint and 6 of mocha instead of 5. The same jump makes the Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha the heaviest drink on the holiday menu, at 620 calories and 89g of sugar.

What milk and toppings are in the standard recipe?

The milk and whip in the official recipe decide the number, so here is what each drink comes with:

• 2% milk: every latte, mocha, chai, matcha and hot chocolate on the list.
• Whole milk: both Frappuccinos.
• Coconutmilk: the Snowy Apple Drink.
• No milk in the cup: the Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew, which is cold brew with vanilla syrup under a mascarpone cold foam.
• Whipped cream included: Peppermint Mocha and Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha (hot and iced), Caramel Brulée Latte (hot and iced), Gingerbread Latte (hot and iced), both peppermint hot chocolates, and both Frappuccinos.
• No whip: the Sugar Cookie Lattes, all the chais, the matcha and the Tiramisu drinks, which use cold foam instead.

Starbucks publishes nutrition only for the standard recipe. There is no official number for a Peppermint Mocha with oatmilk, almondmilk or nonfat, and no published calorie value for whipped cream or a single pump. So if you swap the milk or skip the whip, your drink will not match the menu number, and the honest move is to track it the way you actually ordered it.

How many pumps are in a holiday drink?

What the official recipes do show is the pump count, which is where most of the sugar comes from:

Drink	Short	Tall	Grande	Venti
Peppermint Mocha (peppermint + mocha, each)	2	3	4	5 hot, 6 iced
Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha (each)	2	3	4	5 hot, 6 iced
Caramel Brulée Latte (sauce)	2	3	4	5 hot, 6 iced
Sugar Cookie Latte (syrup)	2	3	4	5 hot, 6 iced
Gingerbread Latte (syrup)	2	3	4	5 hot, 6 iced
Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino (peppermint)	-	1	2	2

A Grande Peppermint Mocha gets 8 pumps in total: 4 peppermint and 4 mocha. Asking for 2 of each is a common move, and it will land below 440, but Starbucks does not publish by how much.

How to order a lighter holiday drink

Each saving is the gap between two official numbers, Grande unless noted, ranked by calories saved:

1. Peppermint Mocha to a plain Caffè Latte: saves 250 (440 vs 190). Protein stays at 13g.
2. Grande Peppermint Mocha to a Short: saves 200 (440 vs 240). Same drink, all the peppermint, 8 oz.
3. Peppermint Mocha to Sugar Cookie Latte: saves 180 (440 vs 260), still a holiday drink, with 11g of protein.
4. Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha to a Grande: saves 160 (620 vs 460).
5. Caramel Brulée Latte to Caramel Brulée Chai: saves 130 (410 vs 280). You keep the brulée sauce, lose the whip.
6. Tiramisu Velvet Latte to Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew: saves 130 (460 vs 330). Protein drops from 11g to 3g.
7. Peppermint Mocha to Gingerbread Latte: saves 130 (440 vs 310), and the Gingerbread Latte still comes with whip.
8. Iced Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha to Iced Sugar Cookie Latte: saves 120 (330 vs 210).
9. Iced Caramel Brulée Cream Chai to hot Caramel Brulée Chai: saves 120 (400 vs 280).
10. Iced Gingerbread Chai to hot Gingerbread Chai: saves 110 (310 vs 200).

And if you just want something hot and seasonal, a Grande brewed Christmas Blonde Roast is 5 calories (with 315mg of caffeine, so maybe not at 4pm).

Every holiday drink under 200 calories

Standard recipe, lowest first:

1. Gingerbread Chai, Short: 90 calories, 3g protein
2. Snowy Apple Drink, Tall: 90 calories, 0g protein
3. Sugar Cookie Latte, Short: 120 calories, 5g protein
4. Snowy Apple Drink, Grande: 130 calories, 0g protein
5. Gingerbread Chai, Tall: 140 calories, 6g protein
6. Caramel Brulée Chai, Short: 140 calories, 3g protein
7. Iced Sugar Cookie Latte, Tall: 160 calories, 6g protein
8. Gingerbread Latte, Short: 160 calories, 5g protein
9. Sugar Cookie Latte, Tall: 190 calories, 8g protein

The Short is the quiet hero of the holiday menu. A Short Peppermint Mocha is the real thing, whip and chocolate curls included, at 240, and a Short Caramel Brulée Latte is 220.

Which holiday drink has the most protein?

None of these is a protein drink, so protein follows the milk, and the biggest hot cups lead: a Venti Peppermint Mocha, Venti Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha and Venti Peppermint White Hot Chocolate each have 17g. A Venti Gingerbread Latte has 15g for 380 calories.

For protein per calorie, the Sugar Cookie Latte wins: 11g for 260 calories in a Grande. If protein is the goal, the protein lattes in Starbucks Calories: Every Drink Ranked carry far more.

Holiday bakery calories

Item	Calories	Sugar	Protein	Fat
Bearista Cake Pop (39 g)	160	15g	2g	8g
Cranberry Bliss Bar (69 g)	290	28g	3g	15g
Snowman Cookie (82 g)	400	27g	3g	22g

All three are labeled "Here for the holidays" on the official menu. The Snowman Cookie is heavier than a Grande Gingerbread Latte, and swapping it for the Bearista Cake Pop saves 240 calories. The Sugar Plum Cheese Danish (330 calories) is also on the menu right now, but Starbucks does not label it as a holiday item.

Real-world holiday orders, broken down

The lighter one: Tall Iced Sugar Cookie Latte and a Bearista Cake Pop

Item	Calories
Iced Sugar Cookie Latte, Tall	160
Bearista Cake Pop	160
Total	320

Sugar 24g + 15g = 39g. Protein 6g + 2g = 8g. A holiday drink and a treat for 320.

The classic: Grande Peppermint Mocha and a Cranberry Bliss Bar

Item	Calories
Peppermint Mocha, Grande	440
Cranberry Bliss Bar	290
Total	730

Sugar 54g + 28g = 82g. Protein 13g + 3g = 16g. At 730, this is closer to a meal than a coffee break.

The big one: Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha and a Snowman Cookie

Item	Calories
Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha, Venti	620
Snowman Cookie	400
Total	1,020

Sugar 89g + 27g = 116g. Protein 14g + 3g = 17g. December stacks up fast, with Thanksgiving first: our Thanksgiving dinner calories and Thanksgiving pie calories guides, plus the Thanksgiving calorie calculator, cover what comes next.

How to track a holiday drink in Nouri

Holiday drinks are exactly where photo-only tracking falls apart. I learned that the annoying way: when I checked AI photo estimates against what the ingredients really added up to, they kept coming in low, because a camera cannot see inside a cup. A Grande Sugar Cookie Latte and a Grande Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha are 220 calories apart, and in a red cup with a lid on they look identical.

But you already know the order, because you just said it to the barista. That is why typing or saying it beats a photo here. Nouri gives you four equal ways to add food: type it like a note, say it, snap a photo, or use Siri from the lock screen with "Hey Siri, track food in Nouri." For a drink, "venti iced peppermint mocha, 2 pumps of each, oatmilk, no whip" goes in exactly as ordered, and the reasoning for each part shows up with a confidence rating, so you can check the milk and the pumps were counted. If something is off, add context and it recalculates.

Nouri also tracks sugar against a daily goal, which matters in a season where one Grande can carry 66g. On Sunday, the Nouri Report puts the peppermint weeks next to everything else: average calories against your target, days on target, and one clear focus for the week ahead. For what it's worth, Nouri scored 92.1/100 in our 100-meal accuracy benchmark (MyFitnessPal 77.0). Nouri is iPhone (iOS only), and you can try it free.

Should you count your holiday latte at all?

Only if it helps you. A Peppermint Mocha is a once-a-year joy for a lot of people, and the point of knowing the number is choosing, not guilt. If tracking ever starts to feel stressful, or you have a history of disordered eating, it is worth working with a professional rather than going it alone. For a gentler plan for the whole season, see How to Not Gain Weight During the Holidays.

FAQ

How many calories are in a Starbucks Peppermint Mocha?

A Grande Peppermint Mocha is 440 calories with 2% milk and whipped cream, the standard recipe. A Short is 240, a Tall is 350 and a Venti is 540. The Grande has 54g of sugar and 13g of protein.

How many calories are in an Iced Peppermint Mocha?

A Grande Iced Peppermint Mocha is 420 calories, a Tall is 310 and a Venti is 560. The iced Venti is heavier than the hot one because the 24 oz cup gets 6 pumps each of peppermint and mocha instead of 5.

How many calories are in a Caramel Brulée Latte?

A Grande Caramel Brulée Latte is 410 calories with 48g of sugar. A Short is 220, a Tall is 310 and a Venti is 500. The Grande Iced Caramel Brulée Latte is 400.

How many calories are in a Sugar Cookie Latte?

A Grande hot Sugar Cookie Latte is 260 calories, and the Grande Iced Sugar Cookie Latte is 210. Neither comes with whipped cream, which is a big reason they are among the lightest holiday drinks.

What is the lowest-calorie Starbucks holiday drink?

In a Grande, the Snowy Apple Drink at 130 calories, then the Gingerbread Chai at 200 and the Iced Sugar Cookie Latte at 210. In any size, a Short Gingerbread Chai or a Tall Snowy Apple Drink is just 90.

What is the highest-calorie Starbucks holiday drink?

The Venti Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha, at 620 calories and 89g of sugar. In a Grande, the Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha and Peppermint White Hot Chocolate tie at 480.

How many calories are in a Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha?

A Grande is 480 calories with 66g of sugar. A Short is 250, a Tall is 360 and a Venti is 580. The iced Grande is 460 and the iced Venti is 620.

How many calories are in a Gingerbread Latte?

A Grande Gingerbread Latte is 310 calories with whipped cream, and the iced Grande is 300. A Short is 160, a Tall is 230 and a Venti is 380, the same as the iced Venti.

How many calories are in the Tiramisu Velvet Latte?

A Grande Tiramisu Velvet Latte is 460 calories, and the iced Grande is 470. The Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew is lighter at 330 for a Grande, though it has only 3g of protein.

Is the Chestnut Praline Latte back at Starbucks in 2026?

As of November 5, 2026, the Chestnut Praline Latte is not listed as a drink on Starbucks' US menu. Chestnut Praline syrup does appear as an add-in option, but Starbucks does not publish a nutrition number for a drink built that way.

How many calories are in a Cranberry Bliss Bar?

The Cranberry Bliss Bar is 290 calories with 28g of sugar and 3g of protein. The Snowman Cookie is 400 and the Bearista Cake Pop is 160.

What is the easiest way to track Starbucks holiday drinks?

Say or type the order in Nouri the way you gave it to the barista, size, milk, pumps and whip included. You get calories, macros and sugar in seconds, with the reasoning for each part, so a skipped whip or half the pumps is counted instead of assumed. It works from the lock screen with Siri while you wait for your name.

Pick your drink and size from the tables, then track what you actually ordered in Nouri rather than the menu default. Last season's lineup is in Starbucks Fall Menu Calories, and if your holiday coffee sometimes comes from the other chain, Starbucks vs Dunkin' Calories puts them side by side.

Sources

• Starbucks official US menu data, including the Holiday Classics category, standard recipes, pump counts and per-size nutrition: starbucks.com/menu, via the menu feed at starbucks.com/apiproxy/v1/ordering/menu (checked Nov 5, 2026)
• Starbucks product pages with published nutrition per size (checked Nov 5, 2026):
  • Peppermint Mocha and Iced Peppermint Mocha
  • Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha and Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha
  • Caramel Brulée Latte, Iced Caramel Brulée Latte, Caramel Brulée Chai, Iced Caramel Brulée Cream Chai
  • Sugar Cookie Latte, Iced Sugar Cookie Latte, Iced Sugar Cookie Cream Matcha
  • Gingerbread Latte, Iced Gingerbread Latte, Gingerbread Chai, Iced Gingerbread Chai
  • Tiramisu Velvet Latte, Iced Tiramisu Velvet Latte, Tiramisu Velvet Cold Brew
  • Peppermint Hot Chocolate, Peppermint White Hot Chocolate, Snowy Apple Drink
  • Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino and Caramel Brulée Frappuccino
  • Cranberry Bliss Bar, Snowman Cookie, Bearista Cake Pop, Sugar Plum Cheese Danish
  • Caffè Latte and Christmas Blonde Roast, for the comparisons
• All values are Starbucks' standard recipes as published; savings are differences between two official values, and order totals are sums of official per-item values (checked Nov 5, 2026)