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Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie

I just ate a Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie at the Starbucks in Corona del Mar. It was really fresh and I couldn’t stop myself from eating the entire thing in about four bites. Starbucks and whoever makes their food outdid themselves on this desert item. The flavor of the chocolate is sweet and fudgey and a little bit cakey at the same time. This is a brownie worth celebrating. It isn’t quite as moist as the Chocolate Overload Cake from Jack in the Box. But it doesn’t need to be that moist because it isn’t a cake. It is a brownie and brownies tend to be a little bit more solid than cakes. This is true unless you are talking about Texas Sheet Cake, that kind of desert is very moist indeed. But the key thing that makes Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie so decadent, is the divine consistency of the brownie texture. It both breaks apart in your mouth in elegant chunks, and it doesn’t crumble. But make sure that you get a fresh one of these brownies! I’ve had Double Chocolate Brownies that had been hanging out over a day or so and they were really hard and not delicious. So you might want to ask your barista nicely if they are new brownies. If they don’t know how long they’ve been there, then a safer bet might be the Cheese Danish. Those are also winners.

One thing to note with the Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie is that the Chocolate Chunk pieces in it are slightly waxy. I am not a big fan of waxy chocolate, but they still taste good. But you can easily tell the the chunk pieces are waxier than the main part of the brownie. This was the case even in my extremely fresh Brownie that I ate today. So just know that going into it.

The Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie has 410 calories per brownie. That is a pretty hefty amount of calories to ingest in just a couple minutes, but the taste is well worth it. And there are 24 grams of fat in the brownie. So if you are looking for health food you might want to try something else. If you want to learn more about the Nutritional Information for the Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie then click HERE.

My brownie experience today opened my mind and now I’m feeling adventurous and I want to try even more snacks. I think the Chocolate Overload Cake from yesterday got me in a chocolate mood.

I paired the Starbucks Double Chocolate Brownie with a Venti Whole Milk Latte and it tasted great. The bitterness and milkyness of the latte balanced the sweetness of the brownie very well. I’m actually still drinking the latte right now. It is smooth and relaxing.

-Tyler

Chocolate Overload Cake from Jack in the Box

Jack in the Box is known for its sandwiches and commercials. But you may be surprised to know that their Chocolate Overload Cake is nice and moist. The cake is easily eaten with a fork and has the perfect amount of icing on it. I usually don’t like icing on my cake, but this chocolate buttercream icing tastes very good. It has 302 calories. That isn’t a huge amount of calories for a cake. But you need to remember that this cake is very small, and it doesn’t fill you up. This is a snack cake for someone who wants a rush of chocolatey flavor. I don’t know how they keep these things so moist, but I am pretty sure they refrigerate these Chocolate Overload cakes because they are slightly cool when I order them. What amazes me is how moist and yummy they are. I haven’t had a stale one yet. They must have a good system for keeping them fresh. A funny thing is that I looked up this item on the Jack in the Box website and then Jack said something like, “This is a great breakfast item too!” And I thought to myself, “No it’s not. Don’t tell people to eat cake for breakfast. You’re a bad influence on people, Jack.”

People shouldn’t eat cake for breakfast. This is a nighttime treat for when you’ve been good all day and you deserve something special. Now some people may be thinking, “What about coffee cake? I eat that for breakfast all the time! Take that!” And my response to that is, “Coffee Cake is still cake and they shouldn’t even serve it for breakfast.” Eating cake for breakfast is about as smart as chewing tobacco for lunch.

My main problem with the Chocolate Overload cake is that it tastes so good that I eat it in less than 2 minutes. And I have to pace myself to stretch the experience to the 2 minute mark. It being slightly cool from the fridge makes it all the more delectable.

Even though it is called Chocolate Overload, it isn’t overwhelmingly sweet. This is strange to me because I expected the cake to be disgustingly sweet because of its name. But in fact it is sweet, but very manageable for the palate. I don’t even need to drink it with milk. I usually wash it down with iced tea and have no problem.

There are supposed to be Bittersweet Chocolate Chips in the cake, but you probably won’t notice them. They are very subtle and taste more like accents to the cake itself, instead of separate hard chip-like entities. This is a good think because hard chocolate chips would have been an odd texture for the cake. But since the chips are more like soft little bittersweet lumps, they taste excellent within the whole experience.

I am proud to say that I have eaten one of these cakes every Monday for the past few weeks. And I don’t think I am going to stop anytime soon.

-Tyler