Valentine's Day Starbucks Secret Menu Sweetens Love Month

By Lorraine Caballero, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, February 04, 2016

Starbucks is making the love month even sweeter for caffeine lovers with its Valentine's Day secret menu, which consists of three new kinds of frappes.

Arizona-based Starbucks employee Tony Aguilar concocted three Valentine's Day-themed frappes and posted them on Reddit. While he did not expect his frappuccino inventions to become a hit, the new popular recipes are already making February even sweeter for coffee lovers, according to Australia Network.

"I was actually surprised with how popular they became," Aguilar told Cosmopolitan in an interview.

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Starbucks's Valentine's Day secret menu includes the Valentine Frappuccino, the Love Bean Frappuccino, and the Java Berry Frappuccino, the report details.

The Valentine Frappuccino is actually a Strawberries and Cream frappe enriched with raspberry pumps, vanilla bean in the middle layer, and blackberry in the top layer. The pink beverage is made richer with whipped cream at the top, the report relays.

The Love Bean Frappuccino, on the other hand, is a Vanilla Bean frappe added with raspberry pumps. For good measure, the drink is topped with raspberry-flavored whipped cream and sprinkled with chocolate curls.
Lastly, the Java Berry Frappuccino is a Java Chip frappe with raspberry infused whipped cream at the top.

The three Valentine's Day special drinks can be ordered from all Starbucks branches, if the necessary ingredients are available. Pop Sugar notes that some branches do not have the raspberry infused whipped cream or the blackberry syrup.

To enjoy the Valentine's Day frappes, customers only need to tell the barista all the ingredients for the specific drink.

"If customers would like to order a beverage that is not listed on our menu, we recommend they know the recipe so that their barista can handcraft the beverage perfectly for them," according to a Starbucks spokesperson.

The Valentine's Day secret menu is not the first time that the company implemented such an initiative. Last year, Starbucks launched a similar secret menu for Halloween. The coffee chain had offered "Frappula Frappucino" at the time. The year before that, they offered "Franken Frappuccino" for the same season.