Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Jelly Donut Oreos - Walmart

Jelly Donut Oreos - Walmart 
I know I'm not offering much in the way of variety right now (with all these Oreo reviews in a row), but I had these photos edited and ready to go, so I wanted to knock out this review while they're still (somewhat) relevant. 
Packaging has been discussed to death at this point, "pretty picture, hate the peel-top, etc.," so let's get right into the nitty gritty. Do these taste like an actual jelly doughnut?
Smell-wise, no. These smell like 'Nilla wafers and processed frosting. Pretty much a normal golden Oreo. It's a pleasant enough smell, but it's more vanilla-cookie than fruit-filled doughnut. 
Twisted open, the creme filling has a drop of raspberry-red creme in the center. It's not a translucent dollop of fruit jelly, like I had hoped when these were first mentioned in the Choose a Flavor contest, instead it's an opaque maroon-colored dollop of frosting bleeding into it's white creamy surroundings. I was curious if each color was differently flavored, or if the added red dot was for aesthetic purposes only, so I tried each filling color on it's own before trying the cookie as a whole.
The white frosting is sweet and vanilla with a waxy mouth feel and finish, just like normal Oreo creme, but there is a subtle raspberry flavoring and a buttery finish. I don't know if it has raspberry flavoring in it, or if the flavoring from the center has just bleed into it, but it's bold enough for you to notice it.
The maroon colored smear has a bolder confectionery raspberry flavoring that isn't quite natural, or jelly-like in flavor, but it is recognizable as raspberry. So there's that.
Combined, it's more impressive than I thought it'd be. The cookie provides a vanilla baked-good base somewhat similar to a fast food doughnut, and the filling is reminiscent of the white fluffy creme filling that some jelly doughnuts have in the local Amish bakery. (Jelly isn't enough for you? You gotta have creme too?) 
Jelly and fruit-filled doughnuts are my favorite, and when it comes to them, I'm a purist. I prefer my doughnut to have jelly filling with a dusting of cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar on the exterior. Not white creme filling at all, which is what the image of the Oreo package is promising. This is not that. 
This does NOT represent a true jelly-filled doughnut, but without real jam or jelly in the filling, I don't think it ever could be an accurate representation. Jelly filled doughnuts have a squeaky texture, sometimes with bits of real fruit or seeds, and it's all about the crispness of the fruity flavoring within mixed with the doughy exterior. Having any kind of creme inside muddies up the fruit flavoring, and that's exactly what is happening here. The opaque creme is more creme-doughnut than jelly-doughnut. 
Back when these were a contender in Walmart's exclusive flavor contest (that Cookies n' Creme won. America, I am disappoint.), the Jelly Doughnut version advertised a custard flavored creme with a jelly flavored center. Now that it's here, it seems they've changed the formula, or their tune, and the package says jelly flavored center with no mention of custard at all. I can't help but wonder what could have been...
I don't really care for these, and can only eat 2-3 in a sitting, but I've shared them with creme doughnut lovers and they seem far more impressed than I am. It's all about preference. If you're a jelly doughnut-loving-creme-filling-hater, these will break your hopeful heart, but it does reduce the sting of them losing the contest. 
Where do you lie on the jelly-filled doughnut spectrum? Pro-creme filling? Or jelly-purist?
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1 comment:

  1. A raspberry jelly would had worked. Instead of a raspberry creme.

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