In Search Of: coffee

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

In Search Of. . . Starbucks Secret Menu Wednesday: Teddy Graham

Oh, look it's that day of the week again... and not just the one ending in "Y."

It's Starbucks Secret Menu Wednesday, and today's flavor is Teddy Graham. We all remember Teddy Grahams don't we?

Cute little honey flavored graham crackers that you always bit the heads off first. Or maybe that was just me. Anyway, coming back to the present, that was today's flavor.

Here it is in all its glory this time on top of the roof of my Avenger, Natasha. (She couldn't be Black Widow. It's a white car.)

Actually it all looks like it's floating.... that's kind of cool. The top of the telephone pole looks like a mini straw. And yes, the sky here is really that blue. So that was lunch, and let me tell you, I scarfed that blueberry muffin like it was going out of style.

You can kind of see what I ordered there, but not really. I probably should have turned it around so you could see the logo a little better. This was one of their fancy summer cups. I'll stop rambling now and tell you how to order the Teddy Graham.

This is a grande, but I think the one in the picture is a tall, so keep that in mind.

Order a coffee Frappuccino
Sub heavy whipping cream for milk
Add 1.5 hot bar pumps vanilla
Add 1.5 hot bar pumps cinnamon dolce
2 packets of honey
blend in whipped cream
Add caramel sauce on the top and bottom
Add whipped cream and chestnut praline topping... which obviously I didn't have.

So this doesn't exactly taste like a teddy graham, or at least how I remember teddy grahams tasting as a kid. At first I could only taste coffee. No honey or anything. I think he over blended it. When I was dumping it out of the Starbucks cup and into my work approved cup, I got some honey out of the straw, but other than that I couldn't really taste it.

I will say, as it settled and mixed in the work approved cup, I got a lot more teddy graham taste out of it. It could have been the ratio of flavors versus the size.

I'm going to say it was most definitely not the worst one I've had, but it isn't my favorite either. It's very middle of the road.

Let me know if you get this and tell me what you think.

As always,

Here's to hoping we find what we're searching for.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

In Search Of. . . Starbucks Secret Menu: Burnt Marshmallow

Well, it's Wednesday again. And we all know what that means. STARBUCKS. YAY STARBUCKS.

Well, again I deviated from the frappuccino, but this time I went with a warm drink. Why? Because of the horribly unseasonably grey sky. I live in the Southwest! I DEMAND SUNNY MORNINGS!

Ok, rant's over. On to the coffee.

Today's flavor is the Burnt Marshmallow.

I really have too much fun with the photo editor on my phone, but it's a pretty picture, no?

Anyway to get a Burnt Marshmallow you follow this.

Order a solo or doppio espresso machiatto. (I'm not sure which one I got. I just handed the guy my phone.)
Add 1 to 3 pumps of white mocha sauce depending on drink size. (I got a grande so I got 2.)
Add caramel drizzle

Ok, so first thing I want to say about this is I got a grande that was half full... I don't know if it was supposed to have foam or something, but I got half a drink. I should have ordered a a tall like he started filling out. So... yeah, keep that in mind when you order.

This actually reminds me of the McDonalds Caramel Mocha thing. It's good, but not that great. I don't know if two pumps was too many, but the mocha flavor was over powering. So, this one is ok, aside from the fact that there was so little of the coffee. I really should have gotten the tall.

As Always,