Review: New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies & What is Your “Bad Experience” Drink?
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WHAT IS YOUR “BAD EXPERIENCE” DRINK?
You know what I’m talking about. EVERYONE has a drink that they can no longer tolerate, for one reason or another. “No, I can’t drink tequila…I had a bad experience once.” “No brown liquors – I had a bad experience before.” “Ugh, I hate Jager – bad experience, man.” EVERYONE has a bad experience story. Usually it has to do with drinking too MUCH of something, and then having it exit the body (in one form or another) later that evening. I want to know YOUR “bad experience” drink of choice, and what was the experience? Tell me in the comments below. I’ll lead it off:
The drink/liquor I can never have anymore is Bacardi Limon. Trust me – there’s a bunch I could select from, including brown liquors and Jager. But Bacardi Limon… Ugh, just the writing of it makes me want to shudder. Rewind to my first year of law school, when a friend of mine who was chasing a girl invited me to attend a party she was having out in Virginia. As a DC resident, there are times when Virginia feels oceans away. As we drove and drove to this chick’s house, I remember thinking “Oh God, NO EASY ESCAPE ROUTE” in case the party stunk.
Once we arrived, I KNEW this was going to be an awful evening. The girl my friend was after was very nice, and her friends seemed fun, but there was only approximately 7-8 people at this party…and a WHOLE TABLE FULL OF BOOZE. The huge living room with two-person conversations in each corner was too awkward for me. Solution: GET COMPLETELY HOUSED. I started mixing up Jungle-Juice style drinks – pineapple juice, cranberry juice, vodka, OJ, sour mix, and of course, Bacardi Limon. Needless to say, BAD IDEA. I got to that level of drunk where the pattern on chairs is effing HILARIOUS. PAISLEY!? BWAHAHAH
After three drinks, I don’t even remember how I got home. What I DO remember is ejecting said drink several times later that evening, and all I could taste was the lemon-y flavor of Bacardi Limon. It was like spewing Pine-Sol cleaner over and over. ARGH THE HORROR.
Sigh. I’m sweating remembering that night. Or, rather, trying to remember that night.
Well, now that we’re all sickened, great time to discuss junk food, right?
TODAY’S JUNK FOOD: New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies!
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies: The Money Shot
Oh Pepperidge Farm products – how I love theee (sometimes). I’ve reviewed more Pepperidge Farm products than any other, I think. And here you come with New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies…you bastards, you KNOW how much I love Snickerdoodles…so you know I’m going to buy these. BLAST YOU, PEPPERIDGE FARM CORPORATE EXECS AND YOUR GOOD IDEAS!
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies: MMMMMM cinnabun
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies are a re-imagining of “breakfast” pastries or the like. Coffee shop pastries, if you will. Let me tell you – the last time I had a whole cinnamon bun for breakfast, I’m pretty sure I slipped into a sugar coma for three days.
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies: 130 cal per cookie
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies contain pumpkin. Yes, I am all in.
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies: SO MUCH SUGAR
I opened the bag of New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies and sniffed, and I could SMELL the cinnamon bun smell – that I could smell cinnamon and sugar and butter and nom nom goodness. These were REALLY soft cookies – just in getting this paper sleeve out of the container, I crumpled two cookies.
New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies: Frosting “chips”
Ok, I’m just going to say it – New Pepperidge Farm Coffee Shop Cinnamon Bun Cookies were some of the best cookies I’ve had recently. The flavors were just ON POINT. The cookie was soft and buttery, and didn’t distract of overwhelm with too much “dough” flavor. Instead, the star of the show was the HEALTHY dousing of cinnamon and sugar that was on top, inside, and all around this cookie. The flavor was strong and unmistakable – combined with the cookie, this indeed WAS a cinnamon bun in cookie form. I realize it shouldn’t be THAT hard to do, so I’m happy this execution was correct.
On top of that, the cookie had a solid helping of frosting chips – I wasn’t sure whether to call these white chocolate chips, or white confection chips, but they were in the cookie clearly to represent the frosting drizzle that usually goes on top of cinnamon buns. When chewed with the rest of the cookie here, they definitely added the familiar creamy sugary-ness that the frosting drizzle normally adds. Great stuff.
All in all, IMO, excellent execution. Mailed the flavor. Definitely one of the better PF cookies I’ve eaten. Nice work, Pepperidge Farm!
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Discuss - 42 Comments
Man, I really want to eat those
My bad experience drink is a whiskey sour. **shudder**
I am with you on the Barcardi….but mine was the 151….ugh
I wonder if they would be even better warmed-up. Do you prefer them over the Keebler cinnamon roll cookies?
Bacardi Dragon Berry. I am not a camper but my partner really wanted me to come along. At the end of the first day, I consumed 3/4 of a bottle alone because I thought it would make sleeping on the ground a little more tolerable.
It did not.
SO glad to read that these cookies actually taste as good as they look. Fabulous.
21st birthday celebration. Red Death. Who knew the name was so appropriate?
I have to say barcadi dragon berry. Way too many unhappy tummy moments associated with this liquor; probably because my girl friends had this phrase where they were obsessed with it…
Great review! These cookies might accidently end up in my shopping cart now 😉
mmmm, love the big, plentiful chips in these cookies, good times!
yeesh, I’ve become such a cookie snob…no way I would ever buy these, despite positive reviews and the appealing flavor profile. They’re using fat-free milk…and then adding milk fat. What? As long as I don’t start holding screenings of agitprop anti-food movies at my house I think I’m still OK. I’d rather just make snickerdoodles…and not just for the opportunity to say snickerdoodles as often as possible.
I’ll take an alternate tack here…Harry & David’s Root Beer Float Moose Munch was so disturbing that I cannot eat any flavor Moose Munch anymore. Fortunately it hasn’t carried over to other popcorn type snacks, but I did enjoy the dark chocolate Moose Munch before. My throat tightens up just thinking about that stuff…urk.
Snickerdoodles.
Any sort of “chick beer” ie Smirnoff ice, mikes hard lemonade, twisted tea, anything of the like (carbonated.) When I was very underage (GASP!) I got sick on a mix of hard alcohols and Zima. Gross! Now I shall never have them again.
…no big loss. 😉
LOVE Cinnamon. Def picking these up ASAP
I’m intrigued by those frosting chips!
Thanks for the chance!:)
Wow, those are the most appetizing pictures I have ever seen on this or any blog.
I love Pepperidge Farm cookies, and these definitely don’t look like they disappoint. That cinnamon and sugar topping, those frosting chips… oh my. My “bad experience” drink is definitely Malibu. After drinking an entire bottle at a Halloween party many, many years ago (along with who knows what other drinks), it led me to puke twice the next morning in a local mom and pop diner’s bathroom… and once on the diner’s bathroom floor. Never went back there again, haven’t had Malibu since then.
I don’t drink alcohol, so my worst drink experience would have to be milk. I was at a brunch and got milk to drink. I took a big, (un)healthy swig and was filled with instant regret. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say, the milk was spoiled. *erk*
Worst experience… Root Beer flavored Smirnoff. Even typing that just made me gag a bit. This particular vodka was 100 Proof. Potent as hell. A buddy and I were having it with, what else, root beer. Tasted decent enough from what I can remember. It was actually during one of the NBA Finals games last year. We barely even out a dent in the bottle. It was just THAT potent. The next morning… YIKES. Was violently ill, headache from hell, puking in the sink while trying to iron clothes for work. This was after sleeping for 5 hours, which felt like 5 minutes. Spoke to my buddy and he felt the exact same way. I’ll never, ever take a sip of that again. Try at your own risk.
Those cookies look SO good! Yum (:
My bad drink, I would have to go with Heileman’s Old Style beer, Milwaukee’s Best Light & Budweiser. They didn’t make me vomit but they tasted so weak & unfortunately drank more Old Style than I care to admit, but I was young & didn’t appreciate a real beer. Now I do. As for other drinks, I just couldn’t finish a serving of ice cold sweetened tea or cream soda pop. I find both really gross.
These cookies look amazing! Every alcohol I’ve ever frank was a bad experience for me. I have never drank anything even remotely palatable that had alcohol in it. It all has an incredibly weird taste to me!
Jager!! I had never had it before, took a couple shots and my bf’s friend told me it had deer blood in it 🙁 GROSS!! I puked right there on the floor lol
Admittedly cinnamon roll cookies didn’t sound that appealing at first, but after reading the review these actually do sound pretty good. I might pick some up, especially if I can find them on sale as well.
I don’t drink, but my “nnnnoooooo” food item is Garden Salsa SunChips. I went hog-wild and ate almost an entire bag, and then spent the rest of the day throwing it up. I normally hate spicy food and never knew why that particular flavor of SunChips appealed to me, but it burned like crazy coming back up and I am totally scarred by the experience!!
They don’t call it To-Kill-Ya for nothing. Me and two new friends killed a fifth of tequila while party passing it. Not a good rest of the night. Can’t drink it to this day.
Note to self: when it’s time to binge on cookies, get this!
Pumpkin sounds odd, but I’m a big pumpkin fan (not to mention cinnamon) so I plan to give these a taste.
that cookie looks delicious but I think eating one would put me in a sugar shock.
These look unspeakably good. I can never buy these because I’m afraid I’d eat them all in a day.
The cinnamon bun Pepperidge Farm cookies sound good, but the soft baked Pepperidge Farm cookies never seem as good as a traditional Milano cookie.
I would #nom these cookies a little too hard.
“bad experience” drinkie, well lots of em of all colors, brown/clear/whateves. But a particular Manhattan(s) on NYE made with booze Not off the top shelf stands out above all others. But give this girl a top shelf Manhattan any day!
What about a donut (forget the incorrect spelling, THATS HOW I SPELL DONUT) flavor one for the next product in the Coffee Shop line? Anybody with me?
my bad experience drink is definitely tequila. the night of my first (and last) tequila shot ended with me being kicked out of a club, puking up blood in a taxi, then having a friend stay with me to make sure i made it through the night alive. terrible.. never again will i ever drink tequila!
and those cookies.. omg, i saw you post them on instagram and got so excited. i NEED to find them and try not to eat the entire package in one sitting.
Typing this on a sucky iPad. Right now, it won’t let me copy OR paste! Dang iPad crud. I hate this thing. It keeps doing weird things when I open new pages. I loathe this thing.
The Pepperidge Farm cookies sound good! Hopefully, I’ll get to try them soon.
I don’t drink alcohol. European yogurt soda is pretty bad though.
yes, tequila 🙁
These cookies look awesome; will have to look for them next time I’m at the store (I’m a sucker for cinnamon sugar stuff!).
Had a terrible experience with Natty Light during my freshman year of college. Now I can’t stand the taste of beer of any kind.
I don’t have a drink because I don’t dranks alcohol. Went to high school parties and thought it was lame and everyone who did it acted lame. Moved to Connecticut – it was cool not to (it even had a subculture). Moved back to Minnesota – people don’t know how to take you or how to hang out with you because of it. Pretty sad.
This is why I need ice cream.
Goldschlager. One fifth. One night. Never again. I also can’t stand to be in the vicinity of anyone chewing Big Red, or I’ll get nauseous. A shame, since that used to be my favorite gum.
My husband brought these home for me last night. These are the love child of the finest snickerdoodle and a Cinnabon combined. Rich and soft with the smell of a hot Cinnabon and absurdly delicious that it’s hard to comprehend how these baked goods from Heaven were ever created. They have none of the “mass produced” flavor to them, instead you would swear they came from the best bakery in town. It’s a must try for everyone. We’re finding them in the South at Krogers. Try them! Your life will forever be changed.
@CB: HAHA the love child of snickerdoodle and Cinnabon. I agree, these were awesome.