My sample of Green Mountain Golden French Toast (Fair Trade) came to me as part of the standard selection that arrives at my office each Monday morning. If you not fortunate enough to get Green Mountain K-Cups for Keurig Brewers at work, I recommend the Green Mountain Coffee Company. They can hook you up with a fantastic assortment of their K-Cups as well as the Keurig home brewer you’ll need to actually use them.

Full Description

The flavors of warm, buttered French Toast drizzled with sweet maple syrup. Fair Trade Certified™

The Aroma

Kudos to Green Mountain. They somehow managed to nail the smell of French toast in a flavored coffee. The scent is an alluring blend of of maple syrup, and cinnamon, with perhaps the faintest hint of fresh egg. The aroma is so convincing, in fact, that a coworker, who had no idea what I was drinking, asked if I was eating French toast. French Toast? I’m lucky if I can find the occasional Pop-Tart in the office. My own suspect breakfast choices aside, this stuff smells good.

Drinking It Black

Surprising as the aroma is, it’s the taste that’s truly an accomplishment. The Green Mountain Golden French Toast actually tastes kind of like French Toast. You won’t be fooled into thinking your actually eating French Toast or anything, but that’s almost exclusively related to texture (chances our none of us want chunks of bread floating around in our coffee). The flavor, as I said; is remarkably similar.

Drinking it black, the blend of maple and cinnamon really stood out. Some have reported being able to taste egg. I didn’t experience that, at least not on my first cup. The finish is smoky but there is some bitterness that pokes like needles at the sides of the tongue.

With Cream & Sugar (Splenda)

With any light-bodied coffee, especially a flavored one it’s far too easy to over sweeten, or lighten up coffee a bit too much. On my second cup, I think I managed to get just the right amount of each and really enhance the flavor.

Adding cream and sugar virtually eliminated the bitterness from the blend. On my second cup, I found the finish to be almost buttery, and yes, definitely yes, I actually tasted a hint of egg (which isn’t as off-putting as it sounds).

Final Thoughts

The Green Mountain Golden French Toast blend goes down easy. There’s minimal aftertaste, and not a trace of the syrupy, back of the throat burn common to many flavored coffees. With a coffee this mild, it’s no surprise that there is almost no kick to it. It’s never going to be confused with an extra bold.

Having tried a few other flavored K-Cups (more reviews coming), and being almost universally disappointed, my expectations were beyond low. Much to my own surprise, I enjoyed both cups that I drank. Although it will never be any every day drink for me, it’s a great choice to have on hand for when the mood strikes. A single box would probably last me several months.

Drinking the Green Mountain Golden French Toast blend reminded me of a snowy winter weekend my parents and I spent in a small cabin at the base of Mt. Fuji. Like the cabin, Golden French Toast has a certain calm and tranquility to it. Unlike the cabin, the cozy feeling of Green Mountain Golden French Toast won’t be ruined when the firetrucks show up after a curious 4 year old starts playing in the emergency panel (my bad).

Like a snowy morning (or the clang of fire alarms), it doesn’t last forever. Golden French Toast K-Cups are only available through March 1st (uh-oh), or while supplies last, so you’ll need too order quickly if you hope to get some.

If If Golden French Toast K-Cups aren’t for you, you might enjoy a Great Knitted Zebra from Green Mountain and Kenana Knitters.

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