Pillsbury Grands! Pumpkin Spice Rolls are back on shelves! Please find our review below, updated with pictures of the new packaging
Let it be known that the Pillsbury Dough Boy is no longer a boy at all.
Popping’ Fresh, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, was born all the way back in 1965 when he leapt out of a can of refrigerated biscuits. He proudly announced both of his names and immediately got to work. In the fifty years that have passed, Mr. Fresh has been dominating all things bakeable. We have a ton of respect for the guy.
Or should I say, girl?
Pillsbury Grands! Pumpkin Spice Rolls
As it would turn out, the Pillsbury Dough Boy is just another basic white girl who loves pumpkin as much as I do. And the similarities don’t end there either. Since starting this blog, I’ve also turned into an amorphous blob of marshmallow fluff who giggles when you poke my tummy.
My respect for her is growing as quickly as my ass is.
Her latest idea to infuse a Cinnabon with pumpkin spice demonstrates that she’s still got it at age 53.
The package warns not to eat raw dough – a warning I did not see until after I ate the raw dough.
The most difficult part is the wait. The fresh scent of cinnamon enveloped my entire life for 25-29 minutes. Having just worked out and rocking a ferocious appetite, this was too much for me. I ate two Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripes, some Pumpkin Spice Frosted Flakes, and a handful of Pumpkin Pie M&M’s to get myself ready. “If It Fits Your Macros” or something like that, right?
Whatever… I barely know what that means.
Even before you add the icing, these Pillsbury Grands Pumpkin Spice Rolls look so poppin’ fresh and so clean. Once you dress them with icing, they look poppin’ fresh to death.
Oh my. This icing is a bold pumpkin spice blend with a butt-ton of sweetness. The spices are pretty deep and pretty delicious. The cinnamon rolls themselves are buttery and flaky- everything you’ve come to expect from the Pillsbury Dough Girl.
When you eat the top of the cinnamon rolls, the highly sweetened pumpkin spice icing is mellowed by the buttery dough to a pleasing level. The frosted parts of these Pillsbury Grands Pumpkin Spice Rolls are pumpk-incredible, but the problem is there isn’t enough icing to go around. The bottom 2/3rds of these gigantic cinnamon rolls will not see the likes of your pumpkin icing, because you couldn’t stop yourself from devouring the surface area of the top portion. There’s simply too much dough on each roll once you properly ration the icing provided.
Left on its own, the cinnamon roll doesn’t have quite enough cinnamon to be anything other than a solid, biscuity base. I remedied this by eating five cinnamon roll tops, and I feel like I am a better (bigger) man for it.
Pillsbury Grands! Pumpkin Spice Rolls are a fantastic concept and are mostly delicious, but the execution could have been a little better. I guess we should give Poppin’ Fresh a break…
She is getting older, after all.
Ability to Change the Gender of a National Treasure Rating: 9 out of 10
Ability to Turn You Into An Amorphous Blob Rating: Too Late out of 10
Overall Rating: 7.5 out of 10
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These look soooo good! I know you mentioned you would pick the toaster strudel over these. But how about a pop tart? I remember as a kid my sister would beg my mom to get her the pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Unfortunately, our parents were sort of health freaks. My sister was only able to manage getting the reduced fat variety. I tried one and thought it was okay. The dough without the cinnamon was too doughy. And I’m not sure why but I used to not like the cream cheese glaze. Is the glaze on these pumpkin spice flavored?
Plenty of pumpkin spice flavor to this glaze. Even with the cinnamon, these were too doughy. These had the potential of a 9 or higher, but they fell a little flat. As long as you sufficiently ice one, you’re in for a treat. DEFINITELY take the Pumpkin Pie Toaster Strudel over the Pop Tart.
That’s good. Glad it’s not only in the filling. I wonder had they made the dough with some pumpkin and spiked with some pumpkin spice how these would have turned out…
Probably amazing. Even just a more robust cinnamon swirl would push this to a high level.
Yeah. These looked so promising. Oh well. Homemade would be better!