Barista Replicates Unicorn Frappe

By COLlive reporter

There’s a real-life kosher unicorn!

A creative Brooklyn barista has created the first kosher “Unicorn” Frappuccino, all the rage now since being released for a limited time by Starbucks around the country.

The coffeehouse chain called the drink “the flavor-changing, color-changing, totally not-made-up Unicorn Frappuccino” and is being sold only for a few days.

“Magical flavors start off sweet and fruity transforming to pleasantly sour. Swirl it to reveal a color-changing spectacle of purple and pink. It’s finished with whipped cream-sprinkled pink and blue fairy powders,” they say.

While the Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc) does not recommend the Starbucks creation for kosher consumers, one Crown Heights café has created a kosher version of their own.

The Chalav Yisroel version of the frappe was created by Dovid Neubauer, a former Australian and current resident of Crown Heights, who prides himself for serving up the “best coffee in Crown Heights.”

Neubauer is the barista at the Café inside the Kosher Town Supermarket at 469 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights. He says that his frappuccinos and lattes have become increasingly popular since the café opened last year.

The café offers coffees, lattes, hot chocolate and frappuccinos in flavors like vanilla, hazelnut, cinnamon crunch, Reese’s puffs and Oreo. They also are the only local Kosher café offering Nitro cold brew iced coffee on tap.

Neubauer was inspired by the buzz surrounding the new Unicorn drink and got to work to create a Kosher version for his customers.

“It probably doesn’t taste exactly the same,” he admitted to COLlive.com. “However, the basic idea is the same: It starts out sweet, and then you taste the sourness. And it does change colors as you stir it.”

Another difference is the taste of strawberry versus the taste of mango, in the Starbucks version.

“But the drink certainly is pretty and does have the sour kick,” he proudly said.