Review: Candy Cane Oreo Puffs put a festive twist on breakfast

Are Oreo Puffs secretly the best chocolatey breakfast cereal? It’s hard to argue against a classic like Cocoa Puffs, but there’s something special about a cereal whose claim to fame is that it’s MADE WITH REAL OREO COOKIE WAFERS.

With the holidays quickly approaching, Post is rolling out Candy Cane Oreo Puffs. “Putting a candy cane twist on breakfast,” Candy Cane Oreo Puffs swap out the cereal’s standard marshmallow bits for peppermint marshmallows.

We recently saw holiday versions of Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles that had marshmallows added to give them a festive twist. I guess when your cereal already has marshmallows, you gotta amp up those marshmallows for the holidays.

The cost

Candy Cane Oreo Puffs will be available starting in November in 10 oz. boxes for $4.99 and 16.5 oz. boxes for $6.29.

The pics

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The thoughts

It’s been two years since Oreo Puffs officially replaced Oreo O’s, and I gotta say that I’ve probably purchased more boxes of Puffs than I had of O’s since the latter debuted back in the late 1990s. My grocery store weirdly doesn’t carry Oreo Puffs, but (often at our daughter’s urging) I’ve picked them up at Target.

You can’t go wrong with a cereal made from Oreo cookies. Whatever flavor marshmallows you add to the mix are a bonus, and the peppermint marshmallows in Candy Cane Oreo Puffs are a fun touch. They could be even more pepperminty, though. It’s Christmas. Go crazy, Post.

I have a hunch that Candy Cane Oreo Puffs would be a fantastic substitute for Rice Krispies in a marshmallow treats setup. There’s a good chance that the marshmallow bits would melt, but their levels of peppermint might still be strong enough to shine through in dessert mode.