Canada, the big landmass of a country and neighbor to the north. The country is so big it has two national sports: hockey and lacrosse. A country that has given the world artists like Bret “the Hitman” Hart, Celine Dion, and most importantly the rapper, Snow.

Canada has also given us Tim Horton’s and subsequently Tim Horton’s brand cereal in conjunction with Post Cereals.

So today, I put on the finest mountie hat money can buy on Amazon that goes with my Canadian tuxedo, holster a bottle of maple syrup, and give you a preempted “sorie” for reading this review. With all of that out of the way, how aboot we crack open this box of Tim Horton’s timbits birthday cake cereal and get into the review, eh?

Aesthetics

The packaging gives you that unmistakeable red and white Tim Horton’s branding and replicates the store’s carrier box you get when ordering timbits/donut holes. Also, it’s double-sided with one side fully in French. Now, I know how to say “birthday cake” in French. Thanks, Tim Horton’s!

       

The cereal itself looks like what happens when you have a box of Kix cereal in a bowl and then someone with a fresh ground pepper dispenser spreads crushed sprinkles all over it until you say when.

Snackability

If you enjoy sweet, crunchy cereal then this one is a solid choice for snacking. Think of it as the crunch berries from Cap’n Crunch, in terms of size and texture of these little cereal balls, sans the berry flavor. If you have kids eating this cereal, just make sure their chompers are well developed so they can get through the crunchiness.

Structural Integrity

Due to the small condensed nature of the cereal, timbits birthday cake cereal is decently strong and compact.

After 10 minutes soaking in milk, the cereal still had a crunch in its center, although the outer layer had gotten a little mushy. So think of the milk eroding away layers of once-solid cereal.

Cereal Concept

While not a new concept, I find birthday cake-type cereal to be consistently decent. Tim Horton’s timbits birthday cake flavored cereal is reminiscent of similar ones found in the states, such as the Funfetti cereal (which I reviewed in October 2020) and the Disney 100 Confetti Cake cereal, which is also made by Post.

Flavor 

Opening the bag, you get a whiff of the birthday cake right away, sans the moist part. The sprinkles don’t really add anything to the flavor, as they’re mostly there just for decoration. When adding milk, and letting the cereal soak up some of it, I think you get more of that spongy cake taste, if that makes any sense.

Final Thoughts Having tried other similar cereals, as mentioned above, this one was sweet enough, but not in a way that’s offensive to your taste buds, and when in milk, it certainly dilutes some of that sweetness. Perhaps my review of Tim Horton’s timbits birthday cake cereal is more kind than my Funfetti one, but that’s probably because of the branding. If you know one thing about me, it’s that I’m a sucker for novelty (hence this cereal blog), so you could have put sand from Wasaga Beach in a bag and slapped Tim Horton’s branding on it and I probably would have semi-enjoyed it. Plus, now I know more French thanks to reading this cereal box. Before, all the French I knew was the Canadian National anthem in French and English (shoutout to fifth grade for making us learn that) and items on the French Cafe menu. In closing, if you do happen to come across this cereal and try it and don’t like it, then I’ve got two words for you: