Starbucks Japan unveils new Merry Strawberry Cake Frappuccino for Christmas 2019

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Designed to look and taste like a Japanese Christmas cake.

With Halloween yet to arrive, and the Night Masquerade Party drinks still on the menu, Starbucks is wasting no time in barrelling full-speed ahead towards Christmas. According to the global coffeehouse chain, the first Holiday Season drinks of the year are set to arrive on 1 November, and today they revealed the new beverages will look and taste like Japanese Christmas cakes.

▼ Say hello to the Merry Strawberry Cake Frappuccino and the Merry Strawberry Cake Milk

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Unlike other countries, Christmas cakes in Japan are actually strawberry shortcakes layered with cream and topped with strawberries, showcasing the red-and-white colours of Christmas, which are also considered lucky for the New Year.

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For the 2019 holiday season, Starbucks aims to create drinks that help customers enjoy special “moments”, like the toast at the start of a party, or the instant the lights are turned on at a light-up event or on a Christmas tree.

Starbucks’ first series of festive drinks will recreate the moment you bite into a slice of Christmas cake, as the Merry Strawberry Cake Frappuccino comes filled with beautiful red-and-white layers.

At the bottom is a “sponge cake crumb“, made with a mixture of shortbread and finely crushed sponge cake, and on top of that is a layer of rich strawberry sauce with fresh fruit pulp. A light and airy cake-flavoured milk layer makes up the rest of the drink, which is topped with a mound of cream and crunchy strawberry pieces, to create a decadent beverage that tastes just like a strawberry shortcake.

Accompanying the Frappuccino is the Merry Strawberry Cake Milk, a beverage that’s said to taste like “eating a Christmas cake with a glass of hot milk”. This one contains a sweetly tart strawberry sauce with fruit pulp, which partners perfectly with the steamed milk and rich whipped cream topping to create a mellow strawberry shortcake flavour.

The Merry Strawberry Cake Frappuccino will be available in a tall size only for 590 yen (US$5.43) plus tax, while the Merry Strawberry Cake Milk will be sold in Short through to Venti sizes from 450-570 yen, plus tax.

Both new beverages will be available at Starbucks stores around the country from 1 November — the day after the Halloween Red Night and Dark Night Frappuccino party ends — and will be on the menu until 21 November.

Source, images: Starbucks Japan (unless otherwise stated)
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