Moon Pie Key Lime

 

Product circa: 2024-2025

Note: This is a Presumptive Ephemeral Nom

There's a small handful of Moon Pie flavors out there, and I would love to see more!

Seemingly a plain (vanilla?) Moon Pie (a mini one, in this case) covered in a thin frosting that is so green, it has hints of blue in it.  The frosting is the only part of the snack flavored like key lime, and it has an ever-so-slight perfume of lime in it.  Overall, this is fairly unpleasant. 

Birthhday Cake M&M's

 

(For the record, I have no idea if the M&M's variety should be named before or after the "M&M" title.  I have recorded both on this site, per what the packaging says.)

Product circa: 2015

I always love it when Birthday Cake or Cookie Dough snack varieties are able to capture the "flour" taste that goes along with the real world varieties, but it's no wonder that these M&Ms do not capture that effect.  In the end, they taste like regular chocolate M&Ms that have a bit of extra vanilla extract in the chocolate recipe.

When Ephemeralness Becomes Permanence

Just this weekend my consumer sense tingled as I passed a product package that registered as different to the corner of my eye.

It turned out to be Birthday Cake Oreos, as has previously been seen... but wait!  This product packaging recognizes that it is no longer 2012, Oreo's 100th Anniversary year, but also this packaging does not say "Limited Edition"!

Could Oreo have made Birthday Cake Oreo cookies permanent due to their success?  Let's hope so.  A cursory search on the interwebs do not officiate this permanence, but I will keep my eye out for news.

Will I take down my Birthday Cake Oreo review if it's gone permanent?  No.  That post was the very first one on this site and I can't bring myself to remove it... but also, as a detail of policy, I will only remove Presumptive Ephemeral Nom posts if I see that they are indeed permanent.

Breyers Blasts! Oreo Birthday Blast

It's December 31 and this post is to celebrate this first year of Ephemeral Noms and the last day of Oreo's 100th anniversary year, 2012.

Oreo got all that it could out of its commemorative Birthday Oreo iteration that came out over a year ago.  As late as this summer there could be seen in stores a collaboration between Oreo and Breyers called Breyers Blasts! Oreo Birthday Blast ice cream.

What this stuff amounts to is an overly complicated cake batter ice cream... and it didn't need to be that way.  Even though it's easy to understand that the cake-flavored vanilla creme of the Birthday Oreo is the centerpiece of the whole snack, I feel they gave it just a bit too much presence in this ice cream.  It might even be that the presence of this Oreo creme makes the mix a bit sweeter than you may expect, but it's barely noticeable.  I wish there were a bit more cookie crumbs in the mix, and perhaps even a bit less cake-flavored creme.

This stuff is good, but I'm not sure it's preferable (or appreciably different) than an average cake batter ice cream.


Breyers Blasts! Oreo Birthday Blast: - Good
Original Breyers Natural Vanilla(for comparison): - Good

Birthday Cake Golden Oreo Fudge Cremes

Before Oreo's Birthday Cake cookies left the shelves, Oreo issued this other cake-flavored Limited Edition.

I'm not sure when Oreo started making these modern Fudge Cremes, but I think it's a step in a good direction on Oreo's part.  Fudge cremes consist of 1 Oreo cookie, 1 normal portion of Oreo creme, and a full chocolate coating.  These differ from Fudge Covered Oreo, and I think they're much better.  The lack of the 2nd cookie somehow brings a balance to the snack that it didn't have otherwise.

The experience plays out how you might expect.  The cookie is a simple Golden Oreo one.  The filling is the Limited Edition creme that's strongly flavored of cake, heavy with vanilla and that doughy cake mix flavor that is somehow mysteriously achieved.  What makes these snacks so good is the chocolate.  It is somehow formulated or tempered in a way that makes its texture absolutely perfect, with a firm bite that has the slightest snap.

Huzzah to the new Oreo Fudge Cremes, and to this product in specific, which approaches a 4-NOM rating.

Birthday Cake Golden Oreo Fudge Cremes: - Great

Birthday Cake Oreo

Oreos are the kind of food that I don't think to buy very much (via self control), but when I do, they're just too easy to eat.

I was ecstatic to see these special edition Oreos, especially since 1) Oreo releases special colored versions all the time, but rarely flavored ones, and 2) the cake-flavored fad is one I can get behind, with cake batter ice cream perhaps being my favorite variety.  This Oreo flavor celebrates Oreo's 100th Anniversary.

The flavor of these Oreos fall somewhere between the deliciousness of cake batter ice cream and the pointlessness of cake vodka.  That not-quite-vanilla cake flavor is captured in the cream (which has adorable colorful flecks, like confetti cake mix), but it doesn't quite capture that malty, starchy, doughy flavor that cake flavored products sometimes can.

They're delicious, and no less easy to eat than the original.

Birthday Cake Oreo:                   (Great)

Original Oreo(for comparison): (Great)


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