What are Frosted Chocolatey Churro Pop-Tarts?
There is one food so glorious that one is willing – happy, even – to buy them from the woman on the grungy subway platform with a Saran-covered baking tray of them teetering atop a granny cart. Churros! If you’ve never had those crusty-on-the-outside, soft inside, star-shaped tubes of fried dough sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, what kind of life are you living?
Well, Pop-Tarts have brought the chocolate-dipped churro experience to the breakfast table, and I, for one, was stoked. They have the standard Pop-Tart pastry envelope with a chocolate-cinnamon filling. There’s even a little curly-bottomed churro dunked in chocolate on the box. Cuuute!
How is it?
The first glance at these Pop-Tarts did not bode well. They were way too light. Like someone left the Churro Pop-Tarts from the photo on the box out on the window sill all summer in the sun.
Churros can’t be pale! They should be “golden brown” at least, but I’ll always go for darker churros. Darker = crustier, and I love facing the danger of shredding the roof of my mouth with a dessert food.
Flavor-wise, I can sum it up in one photo:
Yeah, these taste EXACTLY like the Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts. I love that flavor, I’ve eaten many of them in my time. But here, I wanted something different. The churro-flavored 2019 Mystery Oreo cookies were SO good – I was hoping these would be at that level or better. They needed to represent that slight savoriness that fried sweet things have.
Anything else you need to know?
I’m not usually a fan of toasting, but I tried it here (churros are best hot, right?). While it did add a crispiness to the pastry, it did not raise this Pop-Tart to churro-level perfection. However, I decided to lightly brush the pastry with a mixture of water, brown sugar and cinnamon and drop that in the toaster (using a non-stick bag meant for making grilled cheese in the toaster). Once cooled, this hack did give the pastry a granular sugar feel like a churro, and certainly made it look more like something I’d buy on the Atlantic Avenue R train platform.
Conclusion:
Meh. Just buy the Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon ones. They’re easier to find.
Purchased Price: $3.68
Size: 20 oz. box / 16 toaster pastries
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 6 out of 10 (for unoriginality)
Nutrition Facts: (2 pastries) 400 calories, 13 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 330 milligrams of sodium, 68 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 31 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein.
Looks lazy to me! Slapping chocolate to the cinnamon brown sugar pop tarts which has been in existence for many years. They should had used chocolate frosting or even a chocolate pastry crust.
Thanks for the review/warning.
As someone who is used to chocolate ice cream overwhelming other flavors (not that that is necessarily a problem), it’s a little weird to hear that it made no impact on your taste buds, unless you think the Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts taste chocolatey.
Did you try (or at least open) more to see if the pictured one (which looks far more paler than the box) to see if you maybe just got one that wasn’t fully prepared/baked/whatever Kellogg’s does to Pop Tarts?
Oh yes – I’ve eaten half the family-sized box now. They’re all the same.
The thing that surprises me about this review is that you own a special bag that lets you cook a grilled cheese in a toaster. Like… c’mon.
I actually bought them and realized I would never use them to make grilled cheese. But use them to hack a Pop-Tart glaze? Yeah, that I WOULD do.