February | 2019 | The Cereal Aisle

What do you get when you combine two breakfast treats into one bowl? Pure, sugar dusted bliss. Donut pass up on trying this cereal. I’ll explain as we dig into a bowl of Post x Hostess donates powdered mini donuts cereal.

Aesthetics

I applaud the continuity of the traditional Hostess donettes branding colors and packaging look transferred onto the cereal box. Also, the photo on the back of the box makes it feel like you’re far more classier and eating a cereal that won’t spike your sugar intake for the day.

As for the cereal itself, it’s basically the same size and texture as what you’d expect from Fruit Loops. Instead of fruity flavor, the cereal is dusted with powdered sugar, making it look like your cereal has been sitting in a room that just had drywall hung on an episode of Fixer Upper.

Snackability

One areas where I think this cereal excels is snackability. It’s like eating a dry, crunchy donut, but in a good way, if that makes sense? I could easily see myself eating a handful of this cereal dry as a snack, or if you’ve been drinking late one weekend evening and are hungry then this might satisfy. The only thing I will warn you about is what I mentioned in the previous category. If you eat this cereal dry, your fingers will be coated in the powder

Okay, so this isn’t the same white powder as I refer to, but any chance you can use a Scarface gif you weave it in.

Structural Integrity

This is a decently solid cereal. If you eat it in a reasonable amount of time, (if it takes you more than a few minutes to eat a bowl of cereal, are you even doing it right?) then this cereal will have that perfect amount of satisfying crunch. I did find that it stayed more crunchy in milk than Apple Jacks, for example.

Cereal Concept

I’m guilty of grabbing a sleeve of Hostess donettes at a convenience store every once in a while, so when Post announced this cereal it seemed like a no-brainer for me. At this point, I’m pretty sure cereal companies are just thinking: what can we combine and make it into a cereal? (i.e. similar to how Taco Bell derives its new menu items, I’m guessing.)

Flavor

While I was skeptical of how they would get it to taste like powdered donuts, they succeeded. (Granted it doesn’t taste like a fresh powdered donut, but more like the ones you’d buy by this brand in a sleeve or bag.) The cereal is pretty sweet tasting, as you would expect. Milk helps tone that sweetness down a tad bit, but not to the level of leaving it tasting like a bland Cheerio.

Final Thoughts

I was pleasantly surprised by Hostess donettes powdered mini donuts cereal. It checks off all the boxes I arbitrarily make in my head for what makes a cereal a good cereal. From concept execution, snackability and flavor. If I had an award for newcomer cereal of the year, this one would have been nominated in 2018. I have no problem recommending this cereal to others. However, I recommend you eat no more than two bowls of it in one sitting. Anything beyond that and …

What do you think of Hostess donettes cereal? Have you tried it? Thanks for stopping by the Cereal Aisle!

I was doing my best to pace myself with trying cereals, since I’m only one person. However, after numerous people tagged me on Facebook and Twitter, asking me if I have tried Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros, I knew I had to give the people what they wanted… a somewhat serious review with some colorful comparisons and analogies. Well, I just finished a bowl and I’m here to tell you my thoughts. Let’s dig in.

Aesthetics

I’ll admit that the box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros is certainly eye catching with its vibrant purple box, combined with the familiar Cinnamon Toast Crunch brand colors of purple, blue, red and green. Now, getting to the cereal itself, each piece certainly resembles a mini churro with a light dusting of cinnamon and sugar. On packaging and cereal itself, I think General Mills did a solid job.

Snackability

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros is good for snacking, but be mindful that the cereal is pretty dense and crunchy, so small children might struggle with eating this cereal dry or in milk. People complain about Cap’n Crunch being rough, I’d say Churros cereal is up there. It’s not as roof-of-your-mouth scraping like trying to remove an old popcorn ceiling, but it’s rough nonetheless. Would it be my first choice of cereal to throw in a baggie and eat on my way to work, because I’m an adult who sucks at taking time to make an adequate breakfast? No. However, it would work in a pinch.

Structural Integrity

Remember above where I said the cereal is dense and crunchy? This Churros cereal is nothing like a typical churro that is fluffy, almost flaky even. This Churros cereal is far more compact, which is good if it’s sitting in milk, because it will take longer to become soggy. However, at times I felt like I was eating little, round logs or retaining wall blocks for a gingerbread house, instead of a nice, hollow, crispy churro.

Cereal Concept

When I first heard about Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros I thought, “how much different tasting can it be?” While I give credit for appealing to our love of churros, the cereal was basically the same as Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It’s CT Crunch if you could roll the classic square piece of cereal like an Amigo’s crisp meat burrito and called it a churro. Side note, who’s all hungry for Amigo’s now?

Flavor

The flavor of Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros should be a familiar one if you like regular CT Crunch. Cinnamon and sugar are always good flavors in my opinion, but in moderation. So is this Churros cereal just a money grab to gain eyeballs and mouths on this cereal? Yes. If anything, the shape of the Churros cereal seemed to allow runoff of the cinnamon and sugar dusting. As I took each bite, especially after it had been in the milk for a little bit, I thought about adding more cinnamon and sugar myself.

Final Thoughts

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros is a fun cereal in name, but otherwise it’s basically the original CT Crunch. The key difference to me is the shape of the Churros cereal and how crunchy it is, instead of a fluffy air crisp churro. It was difficult at times to get good bites of cereal off the spoon because of the volume of the pieces. With this cereal, I think your jaw is going to get a workout to the point that it may get tiresome. However, if you have a big mouth then this might not be an issue. Overall, it’s a fun novelty cereal, but I think I’ll stick with regular Cinnamon Toast Crunch for the sake of my jaw (or Sugar Cookie Crunch during holiday season).