A snack review and release history of:
- Benton’s Creme Filled Pumpkin Spice Wafer Rolls
- Benton’s Spekulatius Spiced Cookies
- Clancy’s Pumpkin Spice Yogurt Covered Pretzels
- Choceur Raisins & Hazelnuts
- Aldi Bake Shop Pumpkin Pecan Cookies
- Clancy’s Drizzled Maple Kettle Corn
- Deutsche Kuche Hazelnut Biscuits
- 7-Eleven Pumpkin Cheese Danish
- Aldi Bake Shop Cream Cheese Frosted Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
- Texas Roadhouse Mini Rolls
Benton’s Creme Filled Pumpkin Spice Wafer Rolls
Score: 8 / 10
An airy cookie stick with a creamy, moist filling. This filling really makes it, it’s moderately sweet with a bold pumpkin spice taste. The combination of the soft crumbly cookie and inner filling is really nice, and of course, the flavor is super good and reminds me of fall.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Benton’s Spekulatius Spiced Cookies
Score: 5.5 / 10
A typical crunchy, hardish cookie with a hint of spice and cinnamon. It’s also lightly sweet. Overall, I expected more flavor as these are on the blander side. Still, not terrible, just not great.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Clancy’s Pumpkin Spice Yogurt Covered Pretzels
Score: 5.5 / 10
A lot more pretzel than yogurt. Compared to other yogurt-based pretzels, the yogurt isn’t as strong. This yogurt is pumpkiny and creamy, offering a nice twist to regular pretzels. However, personally, I prefer the yogurt pretzels where the yogurt flavor sticks out a lot more.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Choceur Raisins & Hazelnuts
Score: 7 / 10
85% a regular milk chocolate bar with crunchy hazelnuts. The rest is small, soft raisins embedded throughout, mostly adding only to the texture. I would have thought the raisins would be weird, however, in reality, they don’t really add anything. Overall, the bar isn’t too sweet and mostly tastes like milk chocolate with hazelnuts.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Aldi Bake Shop Pumpkin Pecan Cookies
Score: 7.5 / 10
Quite pleasant for a bakery style cookie. It’s mildly sweet and sports a noticable but overly strong pumpkin taste combined with bits of pecans. Together, it’s a nice, unoffending combination that reminds you of fall. I do believe that adding some cream cheese frosting might really elevate these. Texture-wise, they’re soft and slightly chewy.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Clancy’s Drizzled Maple Kettle Corn
Score: 6.5 / 10
On the sweeter side, especially compared to other drizzled popcorns. It’s mostly sugary tasting with a light maple taste. The texture is reasonably crunchy and soft, sporting a light brown drizzle across each piece. What I liked is that this didn’t taste or feel cheap like other kettle based popcorns.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
Deutsche Kuche Hazelnut Biscuits
Score: 7.5 / 10
Seems like a copycat of Nutella Biscuits but unfortunately, not as good. The cookie on these is more hard and thick, and the hazelnut is a lot less sweet. Still, they’re pretty good on their own. The hazelnut isn’t too sweet and the plain biscuit is decent enough, adding a crunchy texture to compliment the soft hazelnut middle.
Likely released some time around 2023 or 2024 for the fall season. Found at Aldi.
7-Eleven Pumpkin Cheese Danish
Score: 6.5 / 10
A layer of white and orange cream runs along the middle. It’s soft, thick, and moist. Flavor, however, is unimpressive. Running lightly sweet, the cheese flavor isn’t too noticable and the pumpkin is a very light artificial taste. It’s not bad by any means, it just needs more sweetness and flavor like other cheese danishes.
Not sure when this was released but reviews date back to around early September 2024.
Aldi Bake Shop Cream Cheese Frosted Pumpkin Sugar Cookies
Score: 7.5 / 10
Light, fluffy, a little dry, and a bit crumbly. This texture almost reminds me of Lofthouse cookies. The cookie itself has a traditional pumpkin pastry taste that comes across as semi-sweet. However, the frosting is sugary sweet with a pumpkiny taste. Overall, it’s sweet due to the frosting and has a solid pumpkin flavor.
Likely first released around September/October 2023 for the fall season. These also came back September 2024.
Texas Roadhouse Mini Rolls
Score: 8 / 10
These are more or less Texas Roadhouse rolls. Lightly sweet with a noticable brown sugar cinnamon taste. The bread itself feels higher than average quality with the sugary spread really making it what it is. It gets soft while still holding it’s shape and having a light outer crunch. Get these if you love Texas Roadhouse rolls for sure!
Released late June 2024 exclusively to Walmart.