In a year that refuses to be read like a book, we’re getting at least one more sweet little twist of cereal-adjacent obscurity.
Starbucks—err, well only Barnes & Noble Café locations that serve Starbucks coffee—is unleashing a new cookie studded with Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares. But don’t expect a pure and chaste cereal milk & cookies experience: as one Redditor has mentioned, this cookie is a triple threat of oatmeal, cinnamon, and chocolate chip. Which, honestly, sounds a lot better. Just as Honey Maid Cinnamon Graham Cereal is basically Toast Crunch with a beefed-up base grain, so too does this cookie sound like Chocolate Toast Crunch if it were made with oat flour.
If you’ve tried this cookie, let me know what you think of it in the comments below. Personally, I’m swearing off Barnes & Noble until the disrespected ghost of Borders Books & Music tells me it’s okay.
Hey Dan, I am… fortunate enough…? (poor word choice) to work in a mall that has one of these EXCLUSIVE Barnes and Noble Cafe’s. It took you informing me on The Empty Bowl podcast that I could find such a RARE item so close to my workplace to even consider purchasing a Starbucks product. So I finally did.
The cookie was $2.75 but they were buy one get one, so they suckered me into a second one and I surrended a 5 dollar bill.
The cookie itself was, as expected, an enamel excavator. Very sugary. As most cookies of its size (about 3 to 4 inches in diameter,) it was hard on the outside and very soft on the inside. It’s not clear whether they make these in house or not, so I’m not sure who to blame. It was not unforgivably soft or hard either way. I tend to be a centrist on cookie hardness anyway. It was very oatey which I did enjoy, personally. Theres plenty of chocolate pieces and cinnadust to go around. I tried it with and without milk. The milk saved the harder, outside bites, but didnt seem to bind itself to the softer, inside bites. There was one spoonful of super charged cinnamon toast crunch/cookie bit at the bottom of the bag, for which I was glad I had the milk on hand. Overall, the best reason I’ve had to go to Starbucks. A solid cereal-derived cookie.
B+