Beat in the sugar on low speed, then beat in the vanilla extract and salt. Meanwhile, prepare the cream: In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter together with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Transfer the baking sheets to wire racks and let the cookies cool completely. Scoop the dough in 2-tablespoon scoops onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them at least 2 inches apart.īake on the upper and lower oven racks until the cookies are set and golden brown, 12 to 14 minutes, rotating the sheets halfway through. Beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture. Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugars together with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. In a medium bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. The Breakdown: At the intersection of Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, and a milder base grain, Cosmic Brownies Cereal is alright, but lacks the astral depth to do due diligence to its indulgent source material.Make the cookies: Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. I mean, a chocolate and caramel-flavored toasted rice clusters Star Crunch Cereal is ripe for the pickin’, and maybe then we can do proper justice to the Convenience Store Caked Favorites division of the Intergalactic Federation of Cereals. Now the only question is whether Little Debbie will try again with a third cereal. If you really like chocolate cereal or framing your boxes, Cosmic Brownies Cereal might be worth a try, but ultimately I think Chocolate Eggo is a better new chocolate cereal for your money. With a ho-hum chocolate taste and not enough sprinkled eye candy, this cereal is way less memorable than Oatmeal Cream Pies Cereal-which at least brought some molasses uniqueness, even if it wasn’t a flawless facsimile, either. Cosmic Brownies Cereal may have gorgeous box art, but that’s about its strongest suit. In the end, though, I can’t help but want more for the legacy of a snack as iconic as these segmented batter bricks. It makes the crunch a little less painful for high-velocity breakfast inhalers such as myself, somewhat making up for powdered sugar’s absence. I certainly recommend milk for Cosmic Brownies Cereal. If Cosmic Brownies Cereal simply got the same dusted treatment, it could elevate the stuff closer to the legendary level of Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios. Now, OCP Cereal isn’t groundbreakingly authentic either, but its lush powdered-sugar coating gives it a pillowy mouthfeel and a more memorable flavor burst. I can’t really say I expected much more than this-fudge is a tough taste to cereal-ize-but Cosmic Brownies Cereal could’ve been light-years closer to greatness if it just imitated Oatmeal Cream Pies Cereal a little closer. Combining Sonny’s sweet cocoa powder with some of Cookie Crisp’s vanilla–butterish notes and an impressive (albeit palate-piercing) crunch, Cosmic Brownies Cereal is a just-fine chocolate cereal that does a really good job of not doing anything unique. Y’know, typical realistic metaphor, but it’s true. Imagine if Cookie Crisp and Cocoa Puffs had a kid, but this kid triumphed over its parents’ greatest, corny weaknesses by being birthed with a denser and less intrusive base grain. But considering the concentrated decadence of its namesake snack-the potency of which calls to mind Godzilla swallowing a torpedo-Lil Deb’s out-of-this-world breakfast interpretation feels tepidly terrestrial. Though this sequel to Oatmeal Cream Pies Cereal isn’t fully hitting stores until May, I was lucky enough to get an early sample, so I can advise you whether to buy it, or whether to just cram a real Cosmic Brownie into your Slap Chop.ĭon’t get me wrong, Cosmic Brownies Cereal isn’t bad, by any means. Well, while my world has been turned upside-down like ten struck pins, I can at least sooth my addled mind with a bowl of Cosmic Brownies Cereal. Today I learned, thanks to the fun factoids on the back of my this cereal box, that Cosmic Brownies were named after the cosmic bowling fad-and not, in fact, after the deadly sprinkled Fudgenaut asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (they’re like dogs and can’t have chocolate).
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