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Top 3 Starbucks Coffee Drink Recipes


By Jake R Kelly

In 1971, Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker opened the first Starbucks in Seattle, Washington. The business grew slowly, and even in 1992, there were only 165 Starbucks locations. The 1990s and 2000s saw explosive growth in the company, as they began opening new Starbucks locations every day of the year. Today, there are over 15,000 Starbucks' locations worldwide.

In recent years, increased competition has slowed the growth of Starbucks. Many customers are no longer willing to pay $4.00 for a cup of coffee. I recently started doing research on Starbucks Coffee Drink Recipes. I was impressed to find so many recipes floating around the internet. If you want to try to make Starbucks Coffee drink recipes at home, here are my Top 3 recommendations!

Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino

Ingredients

3 cups espresso coffee 3/4 cup sugar 4 cups milk 3/4 cup chocolate syrup whipped cream, for topping chocolate syrup, for topping

Directions

- Make coffee, follow directions for your favorite brand of espresso roast coffee. - Mix coffee, still hot, and sugar in your mixer until sugar is dissolved. - Add milk and chocolate syrup and continue mixing, about one minute. - Pour mix into a sealable container for easy storage. - Store in fridge until ready to use (Note: Do not store any longer than you would milk). - To make drink, combine equal parts mix and ice in a blender and blend on high until smooth. - Pour into glasses. - Top each glass with whipped cream and drizzle with chocolate syrup. - Serve.

Starbucks Pumpkin Spiced Latte

Ingredients

1 cup half-and-half 3 tablespoons canned pumpkin 1/2 cup strong brewed hot coffee 3 tablespoons sugar pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg to taste

Directions

- Combine half-and-half and canned pumpkin in a saucepan, place over medium heat and stir constantly. Heat until boiling but not burnt. - Remove the mixture and pour into a blender. Whip in high speed for 20 seconds. - Pour the mixture in a large cup, add coffee, stir in sugar, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Enjoy!

Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha

Ingredients

2/3 cup whole milk 6 tablespoons white chocolate chips coffee whipped cream

Directions

- Add milk and chocolate chips to saucepan and heat until chips are melted. - Meanwhile make coffee in espresso machine. - Pour half of milk mixture in coffee mug and fill rest of mug with coffee saving enough room for a dollop of whipped cream.

Jake Kelly is an expert in restaurant food and recipes. Would you like more information on restaurant recipes? Check out more Starbucks Coffee Recipes for additional information on restaurant recipes!

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Thursday

Coffee Facts and Gourmet Coffee Figures


Author: George Moore

Some great gourmet coffee trivia:

* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house - the Green Dragon Coffee House

* One Coffee Tree or plant in its normal harvest will produce enough coffee cherries to make one pound of coffee bean

* 27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener to their coffee.

* The world's largest coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees. Colombia produces alot of gourmet coffee for its size - coming in second in the world with around two thirds of Brazil's production of gourmet coffee.

* Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.

* Arabica and Robusta trees can produce crops for 20 to 30 years under proper conditions and care.

* Most coffee is transported by ships. Currently there are approximately 2,200 ships involved in transporting the beans each year.

* In Turkey a husband who refused to provide his wife with a mocha latte could be divorced by her!

Next to the United States Germany is the world's second largest consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person. Second to the United States at 19 pounds per person.

* Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.

* An acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2,000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.

* The percolator was invented in 1827 by a French man. It would boil the gourmet coffee producing a bitter tasting brew - alot like Starbucks coffee today. Today most people use the drip or filtered method to brew their gourmet coffee.

* With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.

Cowboys use to roast coffee over an open fire. It wasn't until the 70's that batch roasting became popular.

* Each year some 7 million tons of green beans are produced world wide. Most of which is hand picked.

* The popular trend towards flavored coffees originated in the United States during the 1970's.

* October 1st is the official Gourmet Coffee Day in Japan.

* The first coffee tree in the Western Hemisphere was brought from France to the Island of Martinique in the 1720's

* China drinks 70 times as much tea as coffee

* Coffee trees are not grown anywhere in the continental US but can be found in Hawaii. Due to the high costs of land the coffee is sold at quite the premium falsely convincing people it is a premium grade coffee

* Coffee beans can be eaten raw or raw in chocolate - deliverying twice the punch and caffeine as brewed coffee

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