For this edition of Snackology, I found myself juggling three frozen desserts at a Dairy Queen shortly after 11 a.m. on a Monday. For a normal person, that would probably be cause for concern, but I had a job to do. With Dairy Queen rolling out its Breakfast Collection, I was there to try the Fruity Pebbles Shake, the Choco Frosted Donut Blizzard Treat and the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dipped Cone.
You can probably figure out why Dairy Queen is calling this trio of desserts the Breakfast Collection, right? This lineup was crafted for anyone “craving the sweet simplicity of mornings past.” If you grew up eating Fruity Pebbles, chocolate frosted donuts and Cinnamon Toast Crunch — or, if you’re like this food reviewer and still eat those things — then this nostalgic trio of frozen treats should be on your radar.
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The cost
I paid $6.59 for a medium Fruity Pebbles Shake, $5.89 for a small Choco Frosted Donut Blizzard Treat and $3.49 for a small Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dipped Cone.
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I started with the Fruity Pebbles Shake. All three desserts in the Breakfast Collection start with a base of Dairy Queen’s vanilla soft serve ice cream. For this shake, a generous serving of Fruity Pebbles cereal is added right in along with milk and then blended together.
Two things surprised me when I took my first sip of the Fruity Pebbles Shake. One, you can absolutely eat Fruity Pebbles through a straw. And two, there’s really no wrong way to eat Fruity Pebbles. I’d argue they’re the superior Pebbles cereal flavor. They’re fantastic as marshmallow-y Fruity Pebbles treats. And they’re the perfect addition to a vanilla milkshake. Their brightness pops through the comforting vanilla flavor.
This reminds me that I very much need Oreo to bring back the Fruity Crisp flavor. It’s been a decade!
I love a chocolate frosted donut. You know the ones I’m talking about. They probably come in a sleeve of like six mini donuts. They have an artificial-tasting chocolate shell that snaps when you bite into them. They’re a perfect road trip breakfast. (Full disclosure: A sleeve of chocolate frosted mini donuts was my breakfast when I drove to Rochester last week.) Dairy Queen had the genius idea to add these donuts to a Blizzard.
I wasn’t sure if this would be a successful Blizzard when I first heard about it. It’s the only item in the Breakfast Collection that doesn’t have an actual brand attached to it. When I got a spoonful of Blizzard that not only had rainbow sprinkles but also a chunk of that snappy chocolate shell in it, though, I realized that the Choco Frosted Donut Blizzard Treat made complete sense.
I’ve had milkshakes. And I’ve had Blizzards. But I’ve never had one of Dairy Queen’s dipped cones. Growing up in a household where Magic Shell was a special treat that we maybe got to buy during a vacation, dipped cones weren’t on the menu.
Getting handed an ice cream cone that was covered in a crunchy “cinnamon cereal flavored cone coating” and sprinkled with Cinnamon Toast Crunch’s trademarked Cinnadust was actually kind of magical. Cinnadust is a powerful flavor. It’s been added to bacon. It’s been added to Hershey’s Kisses. And it works very well as the finishing touch on the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dipped Cone.
The only downfall for this member of the Breakfast Collection is that once you bite through the shell, you’ve pretty much experienced the entire thing. And you have an extremely melty ice cream cone on your hands then ...
Fruity Pebbles Shake, Choco Frosted Donut Blizzard Treat and Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dipped Cone were provided to Snackology for this independent review.
Snackology is a publication of The Omnicosm.
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Snackology is written and produced by Bill Kuchman. Copyediting by Tim Kuchman.
The Omnicosm founder. Snackology, Popculturology and The Cold Open writer. A Rochester, N.Y., native now living in the Washington, D.C., area. Won’t pass up a Genny Cream Ale.
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