Kotas Reviews Dunkin Donuts Mocha Oreos

Coffee. Lifeblood of our modern society and savior of our sanity in times of strife. Having once worked in a coffee shop as a young barista, I gained an appreciation for coffee I hadn't known before, and I can tell you, it has made a world of difference to me. I like coffee is what I'm saying. But, can it still be good as a cookie? Who the hell knows! Ladies and Gentlemen, let's take a look at Dunkin' Donuts Mocha Oreos.

Iced Mocha? REALLY?

Well, we have Yet Another Dunkin' Donuts themed limited edition Oreo for our eating pleasure, don't we? The last time we tried something themed after a doughnut shop was also a mocha flavor, and yet so far they haven't sponsored anything that tastes like, you know, doughnuts. Odd that. Anyway, I have to wonder at the choice to display and Iced Mocha as the "mocha" version they were going with for this cookie. I guess because it would be more visible that a hot mocha? Whatever, it's fine. Let's crack it open!

One of these things is...exactly like the others...

Yup, smells like chocolate Oreos with a hint of coffee flavor, which is right on target for a mocha. The taste is spot on too. A good ratio of coffee to chocolate flavoring, with maybe a bit more on the chocolate side that the coffee one, but still pretty darn tasty! The creme by itself though isn't very strongly coffee flavored though, which I find odd. I mean, usually the creme is much more intensely flavored and the cookie helps mellow it and make it more well rounded. This time? The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Sadly, these are kind of terrible dipped in milk. The coffee flavor completely falls away and the chocolate part is also super muted. However, dipped in coffee? These are fantastic! It's like a coffee shop in my mouth and THEY ARE MINE GO THE FUCK AWAY! MINE MINE MINE! Ahem...

On the FACE Rating System, these get 2 Smiley Faces. Pretty darn tasty, good in coffee, and wonderfully munchable, these are coffee cookies done well. If you like coffee, and most of you do, go out and get some today! Your tummy will thank you! Your coffee with thank you! Your milk...will not.

Kotas Reviews Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Mocha Pop Tarts

When I was a kid, I can honestly say I never thought that cross branding would be a thing. If you had told me when I was 8 that there would some day exist Swedish Fish Oreos or Peeps Strawberry Milk, I'd have laughed at you and told you that you were crazy, and yet...this is the world we live in. Also, I suppose Pop Tarts are a good vehicle for that sort of treatment. Let's take a long hard look at Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Mocha Pop Tarts.

Limited Edition, which is always a symbol of quality.

Well, there it is. It's no Baconated Grapefruit, but hey, what is in this wild workaday world? So, let's talk packaging. It's fine. The Dunkin' Donuts logo is front and center, along with a small yet tasteful picture of a drink served in no Dunkin' Donuts ever. Oh, and I guess the Tart itself is prominent. There has been a trend with these specialty Pop Tarts to put a decorative swirl on the frosting, and I have to admit the pictured one looks pretty good. Then again, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Let's open this puppy up.

Double Helix? What does it Mean?! Mediocrity, probably.

Well, this looks mostly like the package, which is usually a good sign. The smell is mostly chocolatey, with a hint of something coffee-ish to go along with it. The filling looks like their standard chocolate filling like that used in the S'more flavored Pop Tarts. Let's eat!

The flavor is very chocolate in nature, with some vanilla or cream flavoring from the frosting. It is very sweet, but not overpoweringly sweet, which is a nice change of pace. The "mocha" side of this, by which I mean coffee, is mostly non-existent in the taste. There is almost a hint of it in a bite or two, but it doesn't linger and isn't really noteworthy. If I didn't know these were supposed to be Chocolate Mocha, I probably would have just called them Chocolate Cream Pop Tarts or something along those lines.

On the FACE Rating System, these get 0 Faces. They taste fine, but they aren't worth seeking out, and they basically fail to live up to half of their flavor name. Try them, if you are in the mood for a sweet, but not too sweet, Pop Tart experience, but don't expect to get Mocha'ed in the face or anything. It's just not there.

Kotas Reviews the Dunkin' Donuts Croissant Donut

Ah the simple doughnut. A ring of dough that is deep fried and then maybe coated in some variety of sugar topping. Simple enough, right? Well, I have news for you. Doughnuts are in as wide a variety of types and flavors as any food you'll see. I ain't just talking about the topping selection either. There is cake and yeast dough types, a nearly infinite variety of shapes and textures, and of course the various toppings, fillings, glazes and so forth. Still, it is not often that we get a base variation on the theme. With that in mind, we examine today's item: the Dunkin' Donut Croissant Donut.

Nothing says special like a special container...and price.

The idea of the Croissant Doughnut, or "Cronut" as the food media has termed it seems like a slam dunk. Take the croissant, which is one of the finer baked products to come out of France, and fry the dough up like a doughnut. Voila! The moist flakiness of the croissant paired with the sweetness and robustness of the doughnut. Perfect for your morning coffee or any time. Several bakers claim to have "invented" the Cronut, even as early as the mid 1990s, but it rose to prominence in the public eye a couple of years ago in boutique pastry shops. Now, it has finally hit the mainstream. Let's see how it compares, eh?

Premium Packaging. Premium Pricing. Rather Pedestrian Appearance.

I'll be honest, this thing? Does not look all that special. It comes in its own little box that you have to purchase separately from any normal amount of their other doughnuts and costs $2.50 plus tax at my local Dunkin'. Seems they could have made it look a little better than "Kroger Bakery Glazed Doughnut" really. It has that same hexagonal shape as many grocery store doughnuts and that does not scream "premium doughnut".  Dunkin' Donuts is not known for the quality of its plain glazed doughnuts, though their cake doughnuts are excellent, but I still might have tried to class it up a bit.

The taste is decent I suppose. Chewier than their usual yeast glazed doughnut, and not really very flaky or light. It does not hearken back to a croissant much, though it is fairly tasty, beating out their regular glazed handily...but not 2.5 times tastier. Their regular doughnuts sell for $0.99 each, less if you buy in bulk. This is good, but not "super premium" good, so the value just isn't there.

On the FACE Rating System, this doughnut gets zero faces. It's fairly tasty, and certainly better than their usual plain glazed offering, but the super high price is just not worth paying outside of "for curiosity's sake". If you are a doughnut fan, give one a try, but I wouldn't expect it to change your standard doughnut consumption habits at all. If they ditch the premium price and bring it into their usual rotation of doughnuts though, it would definitely become a regular in my dozen.