A snack review and release history of:
- Hostess Donettes Fritter Rings
- Lotus Biscoff Milk Chocolate and Vanilla Flavored Sandwich Cookies
Hostess Donettes Fritter Rings
Score: 7.5 / 10

These remind me of glazed donuts! A sugary glaze coats the outside of a fairly dense and moist donut-like textured cake. It’s soft, and the flavor is a very light apple-like taste, but for the most part, it’s just sugary tasting. It sort of resembles a light-tasting fritter, except, unfortunately, fritters usually have a lot more apple and cinnamon flavors with more pronounced flavors. Instead, this falls into a plain glazed donut with a background of apple cinnamon. Still, these aren’t bad and feel like the child of a glazed donut and fritter.
Released March 3, 2025. Found at Walmart.
Lotus Biscoff Milk Chocolate and Vanilla Flavored Sandwich Cookies
Scores
Vanilla: 6 / 10
Chocolate: 6.5 / 10

Vanilla: A very faintly sweet, soft-stiff vanilla cream fills the center between two Biscoff-flavored, crunchy cookies. The cream almost resembles Oreo, but it’s not as thick, sweet, soft, or even creamy; it feels like a cheaper, tamer version. Honestly, this cream needs to be bolder and sweeter. Nonetheless, it’s a decent addition to the Biscoff cookies.
Chocolate: Unlike vanilla, the chocolate center is a smidge sweeter, bringing out its milk chocolate flavor in combination with the Biscoff cookie. Interestingly, this chocolate tastes different than your typical chocolate—I’m not sure how to put it; it’s just a different type of chocolate I haven’t sampled before that’s neither good nor bad. Perhaps milky chocolate with a hint of malt? Who knows? Anyway, overall, in my opinion, these are more flavorful than the vanilla, but not by too much; still, it’s enough for me to rank it higher.
I’m unsure of the exact release date of these. Found at Walmart.