This is going to be a tough review to write. Not because Cookies & Creme Krispies are so rich with nuance that their abstract appeal defies conventional language. More like the opposite: this cereal is such a big yawn that my writerly brain is distracted, grappling with daydreams of better cereals. Or any cereal, for that matter.
It’s no secret that I’m biased against Krispies, Pebbles, and any other cereal that lacks a certain stomach-smacking density. But for the sake of this review, I will say that Cocoa Krispies & Pebbles are growing on me as indulgent late-night bowls of sopping milked chocolate.
That said, I can safely state that both aforementioned Cocoa cereals blow this half-baked attempt at Oreo imitation out of the water, milk, or any other fluid imaginable. I’m talkin’ “milquetoast middle ground between Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies, never really committing or standing for anything” kind of boring cereal. Thus, you must forgive me if this review isn’t very long—the cereal isn’t terrible by any means, there’s just not much to laud or scorn it for, aside from being a crunchy Hydrox La Croix.
I’m honestly not entirely sure what they were going for here: you can see how few specks of chocolate flavor they’ve peppered on these Cookies & Creme Krispies like, well, pepper. Or maybe five o’clock shadow, which Snap, Crackle & Pop could stand to grow so they can cover their unsettlingly airbrushed clay faces.
Besides these phantom suggestions of decidedly un-buttered cocoa, I couldn’t detect any cookies & creme flavor. Even when soaked in milk, Cookies & Creme Krispies don’t produce the fudge-infused endmilk you’d get from Cocoa Krispies, let alone a mug of sunken dunked-Oreo detritus
Sorry, Kellogg’s, but you really blew this one. Like Cookies & Creme Rice Krispies Treats before it, Cookies & Creme Krispies Cereal barely tries to present an appealing flavor. Like a crude forgery, this cereal merely dilutes the goodness of Cocoa Krispies. And though this stuff’s perfectly edible, I can never excuse pure laziness.
Into the shame hole you go, Cookies & Creme Krispies. Say hi to Funfetti Cereal for me.
The Bowl: Cookies & Creme Krispies
The Breakdown: Even as a hesitant Krispies consumer, I can confidently conclude that this Fauxreo imitator lacks heart, substance, and originality.
The Bottom Line: 3 underachieving cereal elves out of 10
Waste of money. Donating the box to a a homeless person on the street
The box art is wild. Their mouths are so obviously copy-and-pasted.
As good as 2019 was fror cereal – and all time best year for me – 2020 sucks for cereal. I don’t think I have tried a cereal this above a 5.
I can’t help but wonder who is doing the taste testing for the Kelloggs company. This is pathetic.