Happy 40 Years Starbucks!

Recently, Starbucks celebrated their 40th birthday since their first store opened in Pike Place Market (my hometown what, what!) in 1971. To celebrate, Starbucks offered a free Starbucks Petite to each customer purchasing any beverage on Customer Tribute Days. This was March 10-12 from 2-5pm. I saw their commercials and internet advertisements for this gift and was immediately intrigued. Firstly, who doesn't love free stuff and my healthy eating kick has given me sugar cravings even though I hardly eat sweets! I browsed through the list of Starbucks Petites before venturing out for coffee. Here's what Starbucks has to say:

ABOUT STARBUCKS PETITES:
These eight delicious and craveable petite sweets are perfectly sized for a well-deserved afternoon treat. Starbucks Petites are made with only premium ingredients to offer the perfect amount of decadence. Each petite is under 200 calories, so you can feel good about treating yourself or sharing with a friend.

The selection includes: birthday cake pop (pretty much a cake on a stick, a new trend these days), rocky road cake pop, tiramisu cake pop, carrot cake mini cupcake, peanut butter mini cupcake, lemon sweet square, salted caramel sweet square and red velvet whoopie pie. I couldn't decide, they just all looked so yummy and I wanted to try them all. When I got to Starbucks I decided on the red velvet whoopie pie and made my boyfriend order hot chocolate so I could order a tiramisu cake pop.


In the display.


Our selection: red velvet whoopie pie and tiramisu cake pop + my grande sugar-free, non-fat vanilla latte (with their new logo)


Close-up.


Tiramisu cake pop + insides.

Overall, the sweets were good, but I'm not sure I would ever purchase them. The whoopie pie was nicely baked and had a creamy cream cheese icing that I thoroughly enjoyed, but I didn't taste any red velvet flavor that I was looking forward to. The same goes for the tiramisu cake pop. I couldn't taste any of the coffee in the cake, so it wasn't really a tiramisu. The treats were good, but it wasn't what they were explained as. But congratulations to Starbucks on hitting 40 strong years of giving people their coffee and tea fix all around the world.