Dear Starbucks,
I am writing to request that you bring back the gluten-free Valencia Orange Cake. It’s so hard to find good, safe gluten-free options. Having a gluten-free treat at Starbucks was an enormous win for me personally, and the community at large. Starbucks is known for its community involvement, and having the gluten-free Valencia Orange Cake really hammered that home for the gluten-free community. It’s sad to see the cake disappear such a short time later, without any real explanation.
We thank you for your kind consideration.
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We’ve put this petition together to convince Starbucks to bring the Valencia Orange Cake back. We’re going to collect 5,000 signatures and present the petition to Starbucks.
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bring back the orange cake, people with CD need to eat food with gluten
free food.
Bring back the gluten free orange valencia muffin! It gave all celiac people a delicious item to eat with your coffee. Very few coffee shops offer gluten free items
Please bring back the GF lemond cake.It was nice to go to starbucks and be able to order a pastry to go with my coffee just as my friends always do.
Please bring back the pastry. Not only was it GF but it was so yummy.
Thanks
I don’t even drink coffee, but the Valencia Orange Cakes brought me into Starbucks. Once there, I also bought hot chocolate. Come on, think of the lives you’d be touching for people who are so desperate for a gluten free treat they’ll come and pay what you want for these things. (I used to buy a carton of four and take them home.) The demand for gluten-free items is only going to continue to get bigger and bigger as more people find out they have gluten-intolerance problems, and they’ll think kindly on your franchise.
I do not go much to Starbucks due to its pricey coffee but started to go because it offered the Valencia Orange cake that its competitors do not offer any GF products. I hope it can come back.
Please add more Gluten Free options to Starbucks. Not everyone wants to eat sugar laden cakes, maybe that is why it did not do well. Why isn’t there a GF lunch option? The perfect choice would have been the “protein plate” with the hard boiled egg, apple, and bagel??? why a bagel! add some cheese or GF crackers. Mary’s Gone Crackers are the perfect choice.
I agree with all the above. Just think what a huge advance you have made with this little cake. One BIG suggestion, though: When it is there, or another wonderful (hopefully soft, as I can’t eat anything crispy) G-free food, please ANNOUNCE it up on the board or on the front door. Celiacs don’t usually look into the bakery window, because it’s they’re just looking at things they can’t have. I found the cakes just before they were discontinued. Then I bought whatever frozen ones they would sell me. I am so excited to find that there is a movement for your wonderful concoction.
Please bring back something gf for my son. We love to go to starbucks.
please bring it back, it was the only think you had other then nuts that I could eat.
My wife loved that cake! Please bring it back.
You can’t imagine what it is like to discover at age 59 that you can no longer eat Starbucks scones with your Starbucks Latte. Discovering your Orange GF cake was like Christmas everytime I had a Latte and the cake. Please bring it back.
Please bring back the ORANGE GF CAKE! Thank you.
Bring back our cake!
Please bring back our cakes! And PLEASE market them so they will have a chance! Thank you!
Please bring back the valencia cake and other gluten free items too!
Make it come back!
Please bring back the gluten free cake! Or offer a gluten free coffee cake or cinnamon roll. I miss eating things like that soooo much! My son, my father and me are all celiacs. That’s 3 people who’d be in Starbucks more often!
Our nine year old has Celiac and always felt left out when we’d go to Starbucks. We were so excited when we saw the gluten-free orange cake. We all thought it was delicious. Sadly, iIt was gone the next time we went in. Please bring in back!
As the parent of a young adult with Celicac’s, i hope you will continue with your gluten free pastry and add others as well. It is already a challenge for my daughter to enjoy pastries at all, and when her favorite coffee shop carried a pastry she could have that was so delicious, she was thrilled!! Please bring back your Valencia Orange Cake in time for the holidays!
Please bring it back!! It’s rare to find treats like that anywhere. Then to have you take it away and give us nuts and berries? I want to be able to have a treat like everyone else. Bring it back!!
Please bring the Gluten free Cake back to Starbucks!.. Love your coffee. It was nice to be able to sit and enjoy coffee AND a treat with my husband. Thank you for considering our request to not be left out!
Please, please, please bring back the gluten free orange valencia cupcakes. It was nice to be on vacation and have a treat with everyone else. I had a hard time finding them in my area, so I had to go to Atlanta, and some of the stores there did’nt have them either. I had to drive around to find them, so I would buy all they had and put them in my freezer. Would love to have them again.
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