Kotas Reviews Filled Cupcake Oreos

You know Nabisco, I actually appreciate your current willingness to experiment. It led to a marvelous conversion of a beloved bakery treat into a delicious cookie that stands on its own, while still recognizing the flavor from whence it came. So it is understandable that you might try to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. I would have even settled for lightning bugs in a bottle. Instead, we have...well, we'll get it to it. Ladies, Gentleman, let's get a good long look at Filled Cupcake Oreos.

This was the best idea they had.

It's probably just my inner Wade Wilson talking, but the first time I saw this package I laughed out loud and started making terrible jokes. Get ready to twist and lick the white creme filling, right out of that circle of chocolate! I mean, COME ON. FILLED CUPCAKE IS NOT A FLAVOR ANYWAY! For fuck's sake, Nabisco, I get that you are going for an iconic sweet here, but let me break it down: Cupcake is an iconic sweet. Filled Cupcake is a description of an iconic Brand of Cupcakes, not a flavor in and of itself. I swear it looks like someone broke into the Chocolate Oreo facility and got waaaaaay to friendly with the production line. At least it is also in the easy access (HUR HUR HUR) package. Let's gently, delicately lay it bare.

Avert your eyes, children!

God the smell. It hits you in the face with a heavy burden of a scent I can only describe as "chemical" and it immediately put me on my back foot. Still, I must soldier on. FOR SCIENCE! These cookies passed the twist off test with flying colors and lo and behold, it is exactly as it was depicted on the package. A splortch of white gooeiness right smack dab in the middle of a chocolate filling. I just...I mean, what other comparison can I make that you, my loyal audience, have not already made? LOOK AT IT! Gaze upon it's sinful excess and be mystified at its very being. 

The licking of inner creme held no delights, only horror. It is the prime source of the chemical scent and it tastes like it. Imagine spraying your tongue with Scrubbing Bubbles mixed with sugar and that is the flavor you get. It is awful. The rest of the cookie is, well, standard chocolate Oreo, and eaten as a whole it does a good job of mitigating the terror of the inner creme, which surprised me. It's still very chemical in taste, but the two cremes manage to wrangle a chocolate and filling flavor that is almost but not quite unlike a Hostess Cupcake, which I imagine was the inspiration for this...thing.

Hostess Cupcakes are, in fact, sort of fake tasting. One can easily imagine them being prepared not by baking, but by mixing several chemicals into a bowl and having the cupcake spring forth wholly formed. However, the chemical hints are just that...hints, and they certainly aren't the focus of the snack. This takes all the wrong aspects and translates them into cookie format, and it forgets the most important one: Cupcake flavoring. This is just...not very good at all.

On the FACE Rating System, this gets 1 frowny face. The inner creme is vile, and would get 3 frowny faces on its own, but with the rest of the cookie, it is not nearly as bad. It's still bad though, and only the truly dedicated Oreo fan should even consider trying these, if only for the experience. Everyone else? Stay the hell away. Get your jollies elsewhere, cookie lovers! Though, upon reflection, I suppose you already have.

Kotas Reviews Cinnamon Bun Oreos

My love of doughnuts is a constant topic of this blog, but I adore many varieties of pastry, and in fact my most beloved might be the cinnamon roll. The combination of delicious dough, sweet cinnamon filling, and of course a lovely vanilla glaze is one of my all time most craved desserts. So of course I had to review these. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Cinnamon Bun Oreos.

The Glorious Excess of It All!

The difference between a cinnamon bun and a cinnamon roll is probably profound, but modern cookery has rendered them one and the same, so I won't nitpick. Besides, I never could figure it out in the first place. I'll hand it to Oreo this go around. They do seem to be branching out into the specialty cookie to compliment their string of specialty cremes. Look at that appetizing packaging, proudly proclaiming that we will find within a Cinnamon cookie, and not just an ordinary vanilla Oreo. Such wonders await within! Also noted is the return of the easy open packaging, which I very much appreciate. Let's tear into it.

Surprising absolutely no one.

The scent is definitely cinnamon pastry-ish, though it is less cinnamon-y than I would have expected. The cookie looks sort of like a vanilla Oreo, but with flecks of brown advertising the presence of cinnamon. Other then that, it pretty much resembles a vanilla Oreo. I found them to be difficult to twist off cleanly, but that is the most minor of complaints. How do they taste?

Pretty dang good, actually. The cinnamon cookie part has a good cinnamon flavor without being overwhelming, while the vanilla creme takes more cues from vanilla glaze than from Oreo's traditional vanilla creme and compliments the cookie well. The creme by itself is a little too sweet though, so enjoy this one as a package deal. I personally would have wanted more cinnamon flavor in the cookie, but this is still good. Huh, it's like Nabisco faithfully adapted a flavor into cookie format rather than simply trying to shove a flavor into the middle of an Oreo! Very thoughtful!

On the FACE Rating System, these get a solid 2 smiley faces. I'd buy them again, if I had a hankering for cinnamon buns and yet also wanted cookies, and I would happily eat them in a social setting. Oreo and cinnamon roll fans alike should try them out.