Starbucks' Black Cat Frappuccino and Black Night Cookie Are on the Menu as of October 22 — Grande Only, 430 Calories, and Still No Price

Checked on October 22, 2026, the launch date itself. Both items appear on Starbucks' own U.S. menu and are flagged as available, which is firmer evidence than the announcement that preceded them — an announcement says something is coming, a menu listing says it arrived.

The Black Cat Frappuccino Blended Beverage sits in the Crème Frappuccino range, as the September announcement indicated, and Starbucks lists it in one size only: Grande. The Venti Black Night Cookie is listed as a bakery item in a single piece.

The menu listing also fills a gap this page previously recorded as missing. Starbucks now publishes nutrition for the drink — 430 calories and 60g of sugar — where the September announcement carried none. It is also listed as a 200-star Rewards redemption, and the customisation options include a choice between Chocolate Cat Ears and no cat ears, alongside the standard milk and whipped cream selections.

What the menu does not add is a price. Starbucks' listing shows no figure and instead asks the visitor to select a café to view availability, which is how Starbucks handles prices that vary by store.

Starbucks published its 2026 Halloween lineup on September 14, 2026. It covers three things on two dates.

From October 22, now passed: two limited-time items in select U.S. coffeehouses — the Black Cat Frappuccino blended beverage and the Venti Black Night Cookie.

From September 15: a Halloween merchandise collection, also in select coffeehouses, which Starbucks says runs while supplies last.

The company frames the post as a preview, opening by offering "a sneak peek at what's coming to Starbucks before you trick-or-treat". Two items, one date, and a merchandise drop that was already live when the announcement went out.

Starbucks describes the Black Cat Frappuccino Blended Beverage as a chocolate cake-flavoured Crème Frappuccino drink, topped with whipped cream and chocolate shaped like cat ears. Its menu listing puts it the same way, describing chocolate cake flavour meeting its signature crème Frappuccino base, topped with cat-ear-shaped chocolate.

The wording places it in the Crème Frappuccino range rather than among the coffee Frappuccinos, which is how Starbucks itself labels it on the menu.

Since launch, Starbucks publishes 430 calories and 60g of sugar for it, and offers it in one size, Grande. There is still no ingredient list and still no price.

The second item is a bakery item rather than a drink. Starbucks describes the Venti Black Night Cookie as a large, shareable black cocoa cookie with caramel fudge pieces and chunks of caramelized white chocolate.

The "Venti" in the name is doing the work a size label usually does — Starbucks is signalling scale, and calls the cookie shareable rather than single-serve.

It shows as available on Starbucks' menu as of October 22, listed as a single piece. As with the drink, Starbucks has published no price for it.

The Halloween merchandise collection reached select coffeehouses from September 15, 2026, while supplies last. Unlike the food and drink, Starbucks published a price for each piece:

Black cat mug — $19.95. Starbucks describes it as a pumpkin-shaped ceramic mug with a black cat peeking into it.

Cauldron mug — $16.95. The company describes it as a black 14-ounce cauldron mug.

Black cat stainless steel cold cup — $29.95. Starbucks describes it as a matte black cold cup with black cat artwork that glows in the dark.

Black Cat Bearista Plush Bag Charm — $14.95. Starbucks describes its Bearista plush bear dressed in a black cat costume, with a dual-function keychain and bag charm clip.

So the pattern on this announcement is the one that keeps recurring across chain seasonal drops: the merchandise carries exact prices and the menu items carry none.

No price for the drink or the cookie. The merchandise is priced to the cent and the two menu items are not priced at all. Starbucks' menu listing shows no figure either, asking instead that a café be selected, so any single national figure circulating for the Black Cat Frappuccino is not a Starbucks number. This page prints none.

No end date. Starbucks calls both items limited-time without stating a last day, and that has not changed now that they have launched. Halloween is the obvious inference and this page will not make it — the record here is limited-time, end date not announced.

"Select" is still not defined. Both the menu items and the merchandise are described as reaching select U.S. coffeehouses, and Starbucks does not say which, or how many. A store not carrying them is consistent with the announcement, and the menu listing's instruction to choose a café to check availability says the same thing.

One gap has closed: the drink's calories and sugar are now published, where in September they were not. There is still no ingredient list, and no caffeine figure.

Those gaps get filled here if Starbucks publishes the detail.