I take my coffee black with a side of cookies. My favorite brew is Sumatra, but I like Kona when I can get it and love a good espresso now and then. What I rarely order is flavored coffee. I used to like it, but one morning someone accidentally brewed mint coffee and I drank it with peanut butter toast. From that point on, I stopped bringing flavored coffee into the house…or at least mint. Every so often I’ll buy a cinnamon flavored coffee for the spouse, but I usually stay away from it these days because the added flavors so often overwhelm the brew. At least until now.
A few weeks ago Starbucks sent us samples of their new Natural Fusions, which is a blend of hand-selected Arabica beans and natural spices and botanicals. What you get is a coffee with more than a hint of flavor (you can definitely taste it) but a flavor that mingles well with the beans and doesn’t overpower — case in point, the Caramel Fusion which I’ve been drinking with just about everything. At first, I could really taste the caramel flavor. But by my third sip I was enjoying the nuances of what tasted like burnt sugar and didn’t find the blended flavors overpowering in the least. And yes, it does go well with peanut butter or chocolate or whatever the sweet of the day is. Today I’m drinking Caramel Fusion with Peanut Butter Cup Toffee Cookies. I can’t share the cookies, but I can share the coffee with one person.
If you’d like a chance at receiving a set of three new bags of Starbucks Natural Fusion Coffee, tell me what your favorite brew of coffee is and what you like to drink it with. I or my associate (Fuzz) will pick a random number and match it up with the comment. This giveaway will end tomorrow (Friday) at midnight. I’m keeping it short so your odds will be better. Good luck!
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Being the first commentor for a giveaway doesn’t seem like good luck, but I have to do it while I’m thinking about it. There are people in my life who would be SO THRILLED if I won!! The caramel sounds especially tasty!
Oh! I think I would hunt down those mini pb cups and try the caramel flavor with those. Those cookies sound wonderful!
My favorite brew is sumatra with some hazelnut creamer in it, along with a toasted english muffin with peanutbutter and blackberry jam on it. Yum!
Haven’t tried Starbucks flavored coffee yet but my local Fresh Market has a Chocolate Cherry Kiss that I go crazy for and everyone who tries it must take some home with them.
Starbucks Breakfast Blend – and I’ll drink it with anything!
Starbucks Espresso Bold. I drink it black, no additions. The Starbucks flavors interest me – I haven’t seen them in the stores yet. The caramel sounds yummy.
I’m a breakfast blend girl, little cream and little sugar, just to start the morning off sweetly!
I love toffee flavored coffee, I guess because my favorite candy or topping is caramel. I just like to drink it alone, nothing, it seems like if I eat something it will take away from my coffee, don’t want that!
Normally I drink one of the Community Coffee un-flavored blends with breakfast, but I used to buy something at a local shop called “Angel’s Kiss” that I think was coconut, cinnamon and maybe hazelnut.
Favorite blend is Starbucks Verona – reminds both my husband and myself of our trip to Italy. Can you drink coffee with gelato? yummm
I am in love with the New guinea coffee that Costco sells…and I drink it with a shot of whipped cream! Perfect and good for you! Who knew?
I love Lion’s chocolate macadamia Kona coffee with chocolate coconut pancakes. Yum!
I drink a dark roast because I like a deep coffee flavor. I don’t usually like flavored coffees because the flavor is always overpowering and masks the coffee. These sound interesting and subtle. Any cookie works for me!
I usually stick with Folgers Black Silk prepared in my french press. But I treat myself to Starbucks outtings once weekly.
I’d love to try the Caramel flavor in my press. I’d enjoy it with a nice piece of homemade shortbread. Yup! That would be the ticket!
What a great giveaway! Cookies+coffee = perfection! I think the caramel would be great with good old fashioned chocolate chip!
I love Caramel flavored coffees! I usually drink Dunkin Donuts coffee, but their flavored coffees are awful. My all time favorite flavored coffee is the Gevalia Vinter Spice coffee. Yummy!
I love Starbucks French Roast or Don Francisco’s Hawaiian Hazelnut. Black, of course, with a side of shortbread cookies or peanut butter filled pretzels.
I love a breakfast blend, especially with cream and sugar.
I love the Breakfast blend from Starbucks paired with a chocolate biscotti!
Ooooh. I love coffee straight up but would be happy to try these new coffees. Cinnamon Bun and certain chocolate ones are probably my favorite flavored coffees, but just good strong coffee is fine too. I generally avoid sweets with the several cups of coffee I drink each morning. Otherwise, I’d be munching all day long.
I like Seattle’s Best Breakfast Blend, but I have to confess (probably shouldn’t) that I grew up on instant and usually drink Maxwell House instant. I like McDonald’s hazelnut iced coffee, but other than that I don’t care for flavored coffee.
I love Starbucks Verona coffee, especially with something sweet for an afternoon pick me up.
Caramel/toffee flavored coffee for regular days and Irish cream coffee for special occasions/weekends. With almond/caramel/toffee biscotti on the side.
I love toffee-nut or hazelnut flavored coffee, and having a cup with a fresh croissant is perfection!
LOVE the Starbucks Komodo Dragon Blend!!
I take it french-pressed, 10 drops of liquid Stevia & a tablespoon of Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk. YUM!
Second Favorite: Godiva Raspberry Truffle, 10 drops Stevia & Chocolate Almond Milk.
Breakfast blend with half & half, along with a chocolate chip scone.
Lion’s Coffee Chocolate Macadamia Nut, black with 1 tsp of brown or raw sugar, and any kind of thin crispy cookie (the only time I like crispy cookies!)
I would say French Roast for me. Unfortunately I haven’t had much coffee in a while since I am a new mother and am currently nursing. I can’t wait until I can drink coffee again with reckless abandon!
I usually buy the Guatemalan blend from Ethical Bean – which is a Canadian company. But I adore flavoured coffees.
And I love a good square of chocolate with my coffee! Yum!
I am very new to the coffee-drinking world. I took baby steps into enjoying coffee, starting with very sugary lattes from Starbucks, to flavored coffee from Archer Farms, to being able to drink very bitter Thai coffee while on our vacation to Thailand. But, I would have to say that my favorite is Archer Farms S’mores flavored coffee.
Yum, coffee, I’m addicted. Right now I am loving a “birthday cake” brew I picked up at TJMaxx…I get most of my coffee from there, they have such a great variety. And I drink it with EVERYTHING!
I love my morning coffee, usually a Costa Rican roast, with my milk heated just like I had in Spain. I love to eat sweets with coffee…they just go hand and hand.
I prefer darker, smoother blends (not flavored). I like to mix up what I buy from week to week and usually get either Folger’s Black Silk, Don Fransisco’s Colombian, Peet’s French Roast, or Peet’s Sumatra for brewing at home (Starbucks tastes better to me when I buy a cup from a shop rather than make it at home).
I don’t like to drink my coffee with anything though! I need to have it before breakfast because I don’t like the bitter taste of coffee with my food.
My favorite is Island Coconut by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. And my love for coffee cake with coffee knows no bounds…
Hmm love them all.. I think it would be hazelnut
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I love a soy latte with a plain piece of biscotti. Pure bliss.
I love to add ground cinnamon to my coffee grounds, so that it comes out with just a hint of cinnamony taste. I just got back from Italy where I became hooked on having a Nutella croissant with my coffee.
I drink Starbucks’ Verona blend, but I haven’t been drinking hot coffee in this summer heat! I do love Wawa’s iced coffee, mmm!
Anything Starbucks with a blueberry muffin!
I don’t drink coffee, but LOVE Ben & Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch ice cream – does that count?
I love coffee, especially on a lazy weekend morning. I try all kinds, and really like the bold kinds the most.
I’m a lover of all things hazelnut…mmmmm!!!! =0) I’d love to get my hands on that caramel one especially…sounds yummy!
I really love Old City Blend from a shop in the Reading Terminal Market in Philadephia. My husband will bring it home for me when he flies there on business. I also love the coffee at Top Pot donut shop in Seattle. When we travel we bring home coffee as our souvenir.
We drink Columbia dark roast, usually with milk. My favorite side is pecan pie or cookies.
Few things can’t be improved by the addition of caramel
. I love hazelnut as well – but caramel wins!
My favorite coffee flavors are either cinnamon or hazelnut. My SOs parents live in TX and their HEB has a San Antonio blend that also rocks my socks off!
I don’t usually have food with my coffee. I am a coffee first, food later kind of gal!
I love caramal coffee. I like to make iced caramel frappe’s in the summer and hot caramel lattes in the cold months.
I have also used hazelnut coffee and nutella to make a latte.
The coffee would go to good use in my house.
‘Colombian decaf’ from Costco is our favorite…love to have that any time!!!
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I prefer hazelnut coffee with a wholewheat toast spread with my newly made homemade apricot preserves. Umm, delicious.
My coffee of choice is Caramel Fusion. Never would I pass up anything with caramel in it. Especially if it pairs up with chocolate. That’s way I choose Anna’s Turtle Brownies to munch on while gently sipping my caramel coffee!
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