Cupcake Pebbles (Min. Order: 10)

If you’re looking for a cereal that tastes and smells like a simple, vanilla-frosted, yellow-batter cupcake, look no further. Cupcake Pebbles taste remarkable similar to cupcakes.

Mind you, this is the flavor of the simplest cupcakes – nothing gourmet or complex. Cupcake Pebbles, When a middle-class family has a kid’s birthday party and has to feed a dozen-plus kids on the cheap… this is the flavor they often serve.

So the question remains… is a cereal that tastes like inexpensive cupcakes any good?

It’s not horrible. It’s not great.

The box gives the impression that this cereal might be sickeningly sweet. Even the title of “Cupcake Pebbles” is partially covered in frosting of the front of the box. Cupcake Pebbles, This cereal isn’t necessarily sickeningly sweet, but you do get what you pay for and it is very, very sweet.

The reality of the sugar content is 11 grams of sugar per each 3/4 cup serving. Cupcake Pebbles, That’s a fairly high amount, but considering the box promotes the cereal with images of giant cupcakes and two hyper-active prehistoric children (Pebbles Flintstone an Bamm-Bamm Rubble), I was expecting a higher amount of sugar.

To put that 11 grams of sugar in perspective: Lucky Charms also has 11 grams of sugar per serving; Froot Loops has 12 grams of sugar per serving; Cupcake Pebbles, Wheaties Fuel has 14 grams of sugar; and Cheerios has only 1 gram per serving.

The vanilla cupcake appeal of this cereal is initially impressive. It seriously smells like a cupcake the second you open the box. chronic carts, That sensation carries over to the first few bits. But unfortunately, mid-way through your serving, the cereal starts to taste bland. Cupcake Pebbles, The excitement of eating cupcakes for breakfast wanes quickly as you realize spoon after spoon of cupcake flavor is both overwhelming and unexpectedly boring at the same time.

If you like the flavor of inexpensive cupcakes and you think you might like that flavor for breakfast, run out and pick up a box. But do it soon. cereal carts, This one probably won’t be around very long.

Other nutritional considerations: Cupcake Pebbles, Each 3/4 cup serving has 120 calories, 1 gram of total fat which is 1 gram of saturated fat, 26 grams total carbs, 0 grams dietary fiber and 1 gram of protein.