Birthday Cake Oreos

Yeah, that's right.  Oreos with cake-flavored cream.  YES.  I ran into a big display of these when I was at Market Basket last week with Viki and we both flipped out and practically jumped up and down with excitement.  I've always been a big Oreo fan and this new flavor has only strengthened that bond.

 The first thing I noticed when I opened the bag is that the smell was WAY stronger than I was anticipating, even having already caught a whiff of the birthday cake aroma through the front end of the bag before it was even open.  Nabisco is not joking around with its 100th Birthday celebration; clearly they mean business.  And lucky for me their business relies mostly on SUGAR!

Upon initiating consumption of the first sample I was tempted to immediately log on and write simply "BUY THESE COOKIES THEY ARE AMAZING THAT IS ALL GOODNIGHT".  I was THAT blown away.  But I allowed myself some time to consider, and eat a few more.  I've had one or two every day for the last week and now I feel I'm more qualified to discuss them coherently.  They still get a pretty good score, though. 

The only thing I would ever think of changing about these cookies is the flavor of the wafer.  I think it would be a little more faithful to the traditional cake-flavor theme if it were made with Golden Oreo wafers, but I'm not condemning the good old chocolate wafer.  Actually, I think they may have done right by using the chocolate in terms of balancing out the intense sweetness of the cream.  The vanilla wafer from the Golden Oreo would have been a closer fit in taste, but the original has a sort of bittersweet chocolate flavor that really begs for the cream accompaniment.  This makes it a better match for the super-saccharine flavor of the birthday cake filling.

The best part about these cookies is that the cream actually has real sprinkles in it!  When you eat the cream by itself you can feel them in there as a separate entity as opposed to just little colored dots that look festive but have no real affect on your eating experience. 

All in all these things are just fabulously delicious, and though they are definitely a little "much" I think that is to be expected with anything cake batter flavored.  It's kind of understood that it's something to be taken in small (or at least reasonable) doses, but since that's really how all cookies should be eaten anyway I'm going to go ahead and still count that as a plus.  5 Stars.