However, Starbucks drinks don’t usually catch my eye.
They’ve had some interesting sounding drinks, but nothing that I’d rush over to
try… Until I saw the American Cherry Pie Frap. Now, I’m not a fan of cherries,
but I love pie. And what makes this frap so special is that the dome is made
of pie crust!
Yes, you read that right. A cherry pie flavored frap with a
pie crust top. I had to have it, so of course I marked the release date down on
my calendar. I ended up going to Starbucks the day after its release, and there
was a pretty long line. At first I thought the line was everyone who was as
hyped as I was, but it turned out that it was just a busy location. (In fact,
only two other people got the cherry pie frap out of more than 11 people.)
But that didn’t stop me! And neither did the steep price
tag. I can’t believe a tall was over 600 yen. But it was for this blog, so I
had to do it. (Just kidding, it was for me and this post was just an
afterthought.) I was ready. I paid and I got a special thicker straw for my
drink. I was getting excited.
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| I guess you can't really tell that it's thicker, but take my word for it! |
There was only one poor girl working the bar (two workers
were ringing and one was cleaning the seating areas) so no wonder the line was
long. But because she was slow, I got to watch how it was made.
Apparently, the base is just a cream frappuccino. I’d never
tried the cream base before, but it was pretty good on its own. But then a
scoop of pie filling was scooped in the cup after the cream frap went in, as
well as some tiny bits of pie crust. Then the premade dome was gently placed
on top of my drink, and the regular plastic lid was placed on top of it.
I noticed straightaway that there was no hole in the pie
dome. I guess that’s what the thick straw was for—to pierce the shell. And so
tried. And I tried again with a bit more force… Both times I was unsuccessful
and I was just pushing the dome deeper into the drink and causing the liquid to
seep up around the lid. Finally, summoning the power of Zeus himself, I
broke through.
Right away, I started drinking. I guess my straw wasn’t deep
enough because I just tasted the cream frap. I dug a little deeper and got a
big cherry chunk. It was almost exactly like cherry pie filling. It was the
same chunks and the same sweet syrupy liquid surrounding it. Then I got a bit
of pie crust and that really did it for me (I really like pie crust).
I started mixing it around and drinking an it tasted better.
If you leave it as is, there are pockets of cherry filling and crust in mostly
cream. However, the single hole in the dome was making it hard to drink and
mix, so I decided to start breaking up the crust—the whole reason I wanted this
drink in the first place.
In whatever kind of irony, the breaking up the crust caused
my drink to get all over the place. Then, I realized it was too difficult to
break the crust up into small pieces like the bits that were mixed into the
drink. I just decided to scoop the big chunks of crust up with the straw to eat
them as is.
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| You can see my class schedule on my hand haha... |
I ended up throwing a good amount of it away. While the novelty of the whole thing was pretty cool (and it was the entire reason I got one), the execution was a bit of a miss. The crust was too hard (I assume to stop it from getting soggy if it hung out with the frap for too long) which made it difficult to break and eat.
The frap itself was okay, and definitely nothing special. I
think the cherry should’ve been mixed into the cream frap and a spoon of cherry
filling should’ve gone in afterward. The drink tasted too boring as it was
currently served. I definitely won’t be getting it again, but that’s not to say
that I wasn’t happy that I got it in the first place.
Keep an eye out for my next Starbucks post because I’m sure
this won’t be the last...
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