When I was younger (and now that they’re back), I’ve enjoyed Dunkaroos A LOT of different ways, such as:

• Perfectly portioning an identical amount of frosting on each cookie.
• Saving basically all the frosting for the last cookie.
• Eating all the cookies then all the frosting.
• Out of a Ninja Turtles lunchbox.
• Out of a Costco-sized box in a college dorm.
• On the toilet.

But one way that I haven’t eaten Dunkaroos – which is pretty amazing when you consider that they are cookies – is dunked in milk.

Well, ain’t no better time like the present…

General Mills Dunkaroos Cereal

At least that’s the hope now that General Mills has gone and made a Dunkaroos cereal!

Yes, I know these technically aren’t Dunkaroos, but until proven otherwise I have to retain some optimism that this cereal will indeed taste like little cookies with frosting. It certainly helps that the cereal is made by General Mills, which owns the Betty Crocker brand that makes Dunkaroos. Maybe that will incentivize them to take extra care to get the flavor pretty darn close.

Or, maybe it will prove too great a challenge for science to achieve just yet?

Either way, it’s exciting to see that Dunkaroos are back both in cookie form and now cereal form.

General Mills Dunkaroos Cereal looks a lot like the Pillsbury Funfetti Cereal, or even a prior General Mills holiday cereal – Holiday Sprinkle Cookie Crisp. The cereal pieces are disc-shaped with raised sprinkles on the surface. They colored the sprinkles to look somewhat reminiscent of Dunkaroos packaging with blue, pink, and orange.

Time and again, science proves undefeated…

I should have known.

For the most part, Dunkaroos Cereal does indeed taste like every other cereal that has ever looked like it. It’s the generic, “vanilla”-ish version of Cookie Crisp with a new paint job. The texture is identical to Holiday Sprinkle Cookie Crisp and the flavor is at least 95% of the same story.

My biggest gripe is that the frosting part component – a CRITICAL part of the Dunkaroos formula – is pretty much an afterthought. It just doesn’t taste all that different or sweeter than any other cereal.

If you know me, you know I thought very strongly about just using a bowl of frosting instead of milk. But I really thought that would stray too far from cereal and essentially just be worse Dunkaroos, so the least I could do is drizzle the entire thing with decorative cookie frosting.

This helped a lot more than it hurt.

Burning Questions:

1. Why would you eat all the cookies then all the frosting? Because shut up.
2. Did you really think this cereal would taste different than the rest?No, but a man can dream.
3. I bet you dream about having friends. …his name is Carl and he’s a nice man.

Place of Purchase: ShopRite

Rating: 5.5 out of 10

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