A Review and Release History of Walmart Brand Great Value, Freshness Guaranteed, & Bettergoods Foods, Snacks, & More

Wow, this has a good chunk of frosting—I love it! Really, the layer of frosting on the top and sides is thicker than what’s let on. It comes across as reasonably thick and soft, although it’s clearly artificial but still pleasant to bite through. The flavor is mostly sugary sweet with a hint of cotton candy and a non-distracting dye-like taste. In terms of sweetness, interestingly, it’s not as sweet as some store-bought frostings, but it’s still on the sweeter side overall. Further, the large amount of sprinkles adds further soft-crunchy complexity to the texture.

Notably, the frosting brings most of the flavor, as it takes up the bulk of the cake, and the cake itself is, well, on the plainer side.

Speaking of the cake, it’s a regular-tasting, boxed cake mix-feeling yellow cake. It’s good enough: moist, semi-dense, and just right. Sandwiched between the two layers of yellow cake is a decent amount of blue frosting running through the center, which adds even more to the already frosting-generous treat.

Overall, it’s a good cake, especially for the price. I absolutely enjoy how much frosting there is; however, my only complaint is that the taste runs on the regular sugar-tasting side instead of actual cotton candy.

While I can’t find an exact release date, reviews date back to around May 2024. Found June 2025.

Wow, this is so unexpectedly refreshing! Looking at these, I expected a Lofthouse welcome—you know, those sugar cookies in similar packaging that are blazingly sweet and artificial. But these aren’t even close! The sweetness falls between semi-sweet and moderate and is more or less unoffending yet satisfying enough at the same time. It kind of is, well, like a watermelon in terms of sweetness.

The flavor is also reasonably accurate, and combined with the sugar level, it’s likely the best you can get to watermelon-flavored cookies. Interestingly, the cookie itself and the frosting have the same flavor and sweetness.

In terms of texture, it’s all easy to bite through and dense, and while the cookie and frosting textures do feel artificial-ish, it’s really not distracting. If anything, I did find the cookie part a bit odd—for example, it feels moist, but at the same time, dry. What’s going on here? Bah, I’m really nit-picking, but more or less, it does feel like an artificial sugar cookie—not in a bad way either. Lastly, the frosting is on the stiffer side, dense, and soft—it could be better, but again, like the cookie portion, it definitely feels and behaves like an artificial frosting.

Released around mid-May 2025. Found at Walmart June 2025.

The slightest taste of apple and a hint of cinnamon accompany these. Other than that, these are regular-tasting donuts with a soft, semi-moist texture. None of them taste different from the other. Overall, while I found them to be less sweet than their other mini donut counterparts and typical donuts, they’re still decent enough.

Not sure when this was released. Found December 2024.

Regular, soft donuts with a thin layer of soft strawberry frosting. It’s very normal tasting, nothing out of the ordinary or different than your traditional-tasting donuts. All the flavor comes from the sweet, artificial-tasting strawberry frosting. If you’re into these types of cheap-tasting, sweet donuts, grab them!

Likely released around mid-2024, according to reviews. Found August 2024.

This smells strongly like sweet pumpkin. Biting in, the roll itself is a little more dry to my liking, and it has a pumpkiny taste. The overly soft inner frosting is very sweet and artificial and resembles a sugary cream cheese. All together, it feels light and almost airy; tasty enough to recommend, however, those sensitive to sweetness might want to steer clear.

Released around 2013. Comes around every late summer/fall season. Found August 2024.

Compared to a Hershey chocolate bar, these are slightly more dark and less sweet. Overall, it’s more or less just a semi-dark cake. In my opinion, however, it needs some more oomph, perhaps more sugar, to really bring out the chocolate flavor. These pair super well with ice cream or whipped cream!

Not sure of an exact release date. Found at Walmart July 2024.

Tastes just like a frosted donut you’d find at your typical donut shop. Sweet frosting coupled with a soft-textured donut—it’s so good! The layer of frosting, as advertised, has a tasty salted caramel taste and really makes the donut, well, a salted caramel donut!

Released around March 2024. Found June 2024.

The taste is decent, nothing crazy or overwhelming. The frosting is fairly thin. The doughnut itself is OK; it could have been a tad sweeter and, well, better.

Exclusive to Walmart, not sure when they came out. Found February 2024.

Walmart bakery foods are usually pretty decent; what happened here? Despite looking and their name sounding amazing, these were bland! The texture was on the drier side but not crumbly, and the bits of nuts and “candy” were flavorless but added a small addition to the composition, at least. Overall, it was semi-sweet with no real discernible flavor. Why have “candy” in your name if it isn’t at all sweet?

Not sure when the Walmart Bakery started producing these. Found October 2023.

This is not tres leches; this is offensive! It really does seem like they used only whole milk to drown the cake, making it a completely soggy, soupy mess. The top layer is fairly sweet milk chocolate mousse with little slightly crunchy bits of chocolate. The bottom half is dark chocolate cake completely overly bathed in plain-tasting milk. It’s way too soggy and bland, and it’s nothing like a real tres leches that has different milks and flavors.

I’m not sure when this was released, although the latest reviews date back to some time in 2022. Found October 2023.