If I were a kid, these would likely be the only things I ate. Stuffed… marshmallows?! These things are everything, including magic. They’re a great snack if you want sweets (although it’s very easy to eat the whole bag) and a way to add more pizzazz to the campfire or s’mores experience. So, no matter what you’re going for, if you buy any of these, you’re in for a good, tasty time! Regular marshmallows, watch out!
The Stuffed Puffs company has a relatively short history and has been around since 2012, and was founded by Michael Tierney. His motivation for creating such a product was highlighted in a 2021 Forbes interview, where he stated,
What bothered me about the traditional s’more was that the chocolate never melted. It never looked like that TV commercial of that really ooey, gooey chocolatey s’more. It was always ice cold and slid around the graham cracker, like a hockey puck on ice. As I was sitting there, I ripped a marshmallow in half and shoved a piece of chocolate inside and put it over the fire. And of course it melted from the inside out.
Forbes
Stuffed Puffs had grown quickly in popularity and now can be found anywhere, from grocery stores to gas stations. They’re essentially a marshmallow 2.0 and can be eaten both in s’more form or straight out of the bag. According to their product page, they originally came out with Classic Milk Chocolate, Chocolate-on-Chocolate, Cookies ‘n Creme, and Salted Caramel. Due to the popularity of these regular Stuffed Puffs, other flavors were released, such as the limited edition 2021 Summer Peppermint Bark, limited Classic Chocolate Easter Puffs 2021, and, more recently, a 2023 winter holiday Peppermint Milk Chocolate version.
In October 2021, they released flavors in a Big Bites variety, such as Birthday Cake and S’mores, with other flavors like Cinnamon Toast Crunch launched in November 2022. These appear to come in two forms, ‘Big Bites,’ which are the same size and filling as the original Stuffed Puffs, and ‘Bites,’ a smaller-sized puff where the marshmallow size is reduced but the filling size isn’t. These flavors were all reported to be first released in Walmart stores and later introduced to other retailers. Then, for Fall 2022, a Halloween-themed Monster Marsh was released for a limited time.
Two years later, for the 2024 Easter, a Stuffed Puffs Jolly Rancher Sour Watermelon and Blue Raspberry was released. Following that, in early September, a Caramel Apple flavor was released for the fall season. Then, in mid to late fall 2024, a Christmas-themed flavor called Cocoa Bomb would be available. A Cherry Jolly Rancher flavor was released as a limited edition for Valentine’s season in early January 2025.
During the Sweets & Snacks Expo on May 13, 2025, five additional flavors were introduced; however, some outlets only highlight four flavors: Mixed Berry, Chili Mango, Fruity Punch, and Sour Berry. To note, as of mid-October 2025, I have only seen Chili Mango, Fruity Punch, and Sour Watermelon, specifically at Walmart.
Before diving into the reviews and rankings, it’s important to point out commonalities between each Stuffed Puff. First, the marshmallows are fairly sweet, a little sweeter than your average marshmallow. The texture is also a bit different, but still more or less similar, and is that of a marshmallow. Inside each of these chunky, thick marshmallows is a small ball of flavor. It’s a soft, easy-to-bite-through solid filling that is usually a little sweeter than the marshmallow itself and provides much of the advertised flavor stamped on the packaging.
This filling is there should you want to hold them up to a fire, as it’s easily meltable and gives you a way to skip putting a bar of chocolate onto your s’more, as Tierney alluded to in the quote above. In addition, many of the Stuffed Puffs have different outside coatings that contribute differently to the taste and texture.
1. Birthday Cake
Why this Stuffed Puff is top tier and one of my all-time favorite sweets was just how perfect everything was. Overall, it’s pretty sweet and smells and tastes just like a birthday cake in thick marshmallow form. The soft, thick, pliable marshmallow encases a soft, semi-hard yellow center ball. This balled center tastes just like a sweet birthday cake, too, and is where all the actual birthday cake flavor comes from. The thick layer of sprinkles outside gives it a light sprinkles crunch and nicely adds to the complexity of textures. A must-try for sweets and birthday cake lovers!
2. Sour Blue Raspberry Jolly Rancher
Compared to the other Stuffed Puffs, these have a ton more filling. Overall, it’s superb sour candy, but I’m not even a huge fan of this type of sour stuff! It’s reasonably punchy, and the texture is wonderful! The soft blue jelly inside matches nearly identically to the equally chewy outside marshmallow, blending all together to form a sweet-sour, blue raspberry candy marshmallow taste concoction. I also love the crunchy bits outside, which add further complexity to the experience.
Warning: if you heat these, they completely collapse, and the inside turns to liquid.
3. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
The lightly coated outer shell, as well as the soft, sugary-cinnamon inner core itself, gives a taste quite close to Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Together, it’s a very interesting texture experience; essentially, I felt like I was eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but it was instead a chewy marshmallow with a soft core—very unique! My only criticism was that the outside was on the thinner side and lacked the sugar it should have had!
4. Monster Marsh
Identical to the Classic Milk Chocolate Stuffed Puffs, except these are both slime-colored green and have an appreciable thick layer of sprinkles on the outside. This layer of soft-ish sprinkles adds so much to the texture, which is something the Classic Milk Chocolate really needed, also making it more forgiving despite the small chocolate center-to-marshmallow ratio (see my Classic Milk Chocolate for more details about that).
5. Cookies ‘n Creme
This chunky, fairly sweet marshmallow has a pretty thick layer of cookie bits on the outside. They aren’t super crunchy, but they do add some texture. On the inside of this marshmallow is a semi-small, very soft, cookie-dough-like ball that I suppose is supposed to taste like cookies and cream, but the sweetness and taste of the marshmallow and outside cookie bits overshadow it. Basically, the marshmallow, even without the inside filling, already tastes like a sweet cookies and creme marshmallow!
6. Cocoa Bomb
So weird! They have substantially less chocolate than the traditional Stuffed Puffs. Instead, there is just a tiny amount of soft chocolate goo in the middle, but it’s a lot sweeter and has a much more bold milk chocolate flavor. Despite having a lot less chocolate, these are more chocolatey! The light blue coating gives it the slightest sugary-crystal-crunch.
7. Gummy Fuzions Fruity Punch
These remind me of Nerds, but better! The outside is absolutely covered with sugary, sweet-tasting, crunchy pieces–you can’t even see the marshmallow! This contrasts nicely with the even sweeter, thick, dense inner marshmallow. Then, when you reach the gooey center, you’re met with a sweet and a touch of sour cherry on top of it. It’s a sweet explosion, and tastes like you’re eating a giant piece of sugary, chewy cherry candy–yum! Such a great mouthfeel–and I can’t emphasize this enough–those sprinkles really elevate these Stuffed Puffs so much!
Warning: if you heat these up, they completely collapse, and the inside turns to liquid.
8. Sour Watermelon Jolly Rancher
A sweet, not really sour, watermelon Jolly Rancher-tasting marshmallow. Well, the marshmallow doesn’t taste like it, but the soft-solid inside jelly-like filling absolutely does. The filling, in combination with the marshmallow shell, comes together nicely, and the outside flakes give it a little bit of a crunch. It has a great texture and a pleasantly sweet flavor overall.
Warning: if you heat these up, they completely collapse, and the inside turns to liquid.
9. Cherry Jolly Rancher
Pleasant, moderately sweet, almost refreshing artificial Jolly Ranchers cherry flavor. These heart-shaped marshmallows get their flavor primarily from the thick, bright red jelly inside. The light, sugary coating outside also helps to enhance the cherry flavor and add a differentiating texture. I expected them to be as sweet as their other Stuffed Puffs candy flavors, but these were milder and tolerable.
Warning: if you heat these up, they completely collapse, and the inside turns to liquid.
10. Classic Milk Chocolate
The classic Stuffed Puff. Instead of having a marshmallow coating like some of the Big Bites or newer releases, these are simpler. A thick marshmallow encases a soft and smallish-sized piece of fairly sweet milk chocolate. I do wish the chocolate piece were a bit larger or more impactful, as the Stuffed Puff is mostly marshmallow, making the ratio feel off.
11. Salted Caramel
Similar to the Classic Milk Chocolate, this doesn’t have an outside coating on the marshmallow. And instead of a chocolate center, there is a soft caramel ball. This caramel center is fairly sweet and tastes like caramel, but it isn’t overpowering or too artificial. Also, like the Classic Milk Chocolate, I wish the caramel center chunk were a little larger due to the huge size of the marshmallow. Overall, it was fairly sweet.
12. Peppermint Milk Chocolate
That outside texture is absolutely perfect. Crunchy little pieces of peppermint and a whole lot of sugary crystals litter the outside. The taste comes across as pretty sweet, not super pepperminty or toothpasty, and with the inner chocolate filling, the combination is just right.
13. Caramel Apple
A light candy apple flavor combined with a toned-down caramel-flavored center. I expected these to be a lot sweeter and perhaps even a bit more sour. Still, I was pleasantly surprised at how well both of these flavors pair and even more curious about how these seem so much less sweet than their other counterparts. The outside texture is slightly gritty, as if it has blended sugar attached to it.
14. Gummy Fuzions Sour Watermelon
They’re good but could have been so much better, especially compared to the other Fuzions flavors–they’re missing the outside crunchy sprinkles! Instead, these have a light sugary coating on the dense marshmallow and then inside of that, a jelly-like filling.
The entire thing is mostly uniform in its flavor and texture: sweet, but also sour, especially for a marshmallow. Is it going to make you pucker your lips? Definitely not, though, it’s appreciable, especially if you want a sweet and sour marshmallow–you won’t find many options on the table other than this. The flavor itself is a mild watermelon; where it shines is its sugary sweetness and mild punch of sourness. Personally, the watermelon taste itself could have been stronger.
Warning: if you heat these up, they completely collapse, and the inside turns to liquid.
15. S’mores (Big bites)
A fairly sweet, chunky marshmallow that’s coated in semi-sweet cinnamon and honey-tasting graham cracker. The center has a soft, circular piece of milk chocolate. I did expect these to be a little sweeter and have more graham crackers overall, as well as for the center to have more flavor like some of the other Big Bites. And frankly, something about this cinnamon-tasting, graham cracker-coated marshmallow just doesn’t mix well with the center chocolate; it’s kind of odd.
16. S’mores (Bites)
Unlike its big brother, the Big Bites version, these seem to have less of a graham cracker coating and, overall, just aren’t as sweet. This may be due to less marshmallow, I’m not sure; all I know is that everything about this felt underwhelming. From the inside chocolate to the outside, these were hardly as sweet as a traditional s’more.
Why are the Mini Puff marshmallows in clumps and sticking together. In the past only the store brands were that way.
I have no idea! Maybe the warmer weather?