Seriously, how tiny can we make food before it technically isn’t even food anymore?
It never was.
Don’t get me wrong – I love the very idea of Hostess Donettes! Food this small and adorable gets tacked right into the “oh, that does even’t count” category, and their calories round down to zero as a result. You can eat as many as you want! The beauty is in the math:
0 calories x 50 mini donuts = 0 calories
So Hostess invented some zero-calorie donuts and gave it the cute name “Donettes”, which means “adorable, tiny, calorie-free doughnuts.” But in what can only be described as some kind of flex, we’re now getting tinier tiny donuts.
Also its cereal now.
Post Cereals has teamed with Hostess to produce the latest donut cereal: Post Hostess Donettes Cereal, or as I like to call it, “Donette-ettes Cereal”, which is pronounced by saying “Doan-” and then just obnoxiously rolling your tongue while blowing air out your face.
Hey, at least this time we know which donut this one’s supposed to be after the Kellogg’s nondescript “Pink Donut” Cereal didn’t taste like anything but sugar. Post Hostess Donettes cereal is flavored like powdered mini donuts, the ones covered in powdered sugar.
In other words, this cereal should also taste like sugar…
And it does! But to Post’s credit, Hostess Donettes cereal is completely covered in powdered sugar (or something similar to it), so it has that soft, creamy sweetness with a slight vanilla flavor that you’d expect from a powdered sugar donut (or powdered sugar anything). On top of that, the cereal pieces have a VERY puffy crunch that is unlike any other cereal. It’s alarmingly satisfying to eat.
Does it taste like donuts, though? Of course not! It’s not like they added an artificial flavoring to produce a fried dough flavor, and quite frankly I view that as a good thing.
Powdered sugar is the star, and it works well with the corn, wheat, and oat pieces.
Milk doesn’t really do it any favors, nor does it really ruin it. You basically transfer a lot of the powdered sugar’s sweetness from the cereal over to the milk. I prefer it dry.
Not a remarkable cereal, but Post’s Hostess Donettes cereal is actually better than I anticipated.
I guess a 7/10 donut breeds a 7/10 cereal…
Donut Flavor Rating: 2 out of 10
Difficulty Pronouncing “Donette-ettes” Rating: 9 out of 10
Overall Rating: 7 out of 10
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