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Thursday, December 31, 2009
I never thought the day would come when Starbucks would be featured at PB... 
But miracles happen. I only found out about these Starbuck macarons last weekend!
Approximately 3,500 Starbucks stores carry these little macs available just for the holiday season. 12 mini macarons for all of $9.95 ($.83 per mac -not a bad price at all)
The size is correct - 1 1/4" across.The texture is very smooth not horridly bumpy unlike most US attempts at the French macaron.
The flavors are traditional: coffee, pistachio, raspberry, chocolate, vanilla, lemon.The mouth feel is pleasently chewy.
The box is your standard egg crate affair - not really a bad idea. At least the macs don't get mangled intransit.
*The big drawback is TOO MUCH SUGAR! Come on guys.
You came so close to giving us the real thing!
Starbuck's macarons hale from Château Blanc in Marcq-en-Baroeul near Lille, a good 224 killometers or 2 1/2 hours from rue Bonaparte Paris 75006, home of Pierre Herme and Laduree, so these are not your true Parisien macaron by a long shot. Still I give Starbucks E for effort, though I don't see one word about the macarons on their website. Test marketing 101?
Here's a whole bunch of information you will never see on a Laduree or Pierre Herme box ever. Who knew that 4 little macs equal only 157 calories and have 3g of protein? At 39 calories each is it any wonder French girls are thin? 6 macs= Lunch!
So HAPPY NEW YEAR Starbucks!
Keep up the good works and please cut down on the sugar.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
© by Carol Gillott 2010
and don't eat too many macarons...
Thanks very much to Cathy in CT for alerting me to Trader Joe's macarons! Thanks to Sue for the very beautiful Auld Lang Syne.0 Comments:
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