The New Pebbles

We all know Post's Pebbles Cereals (try saying that five times fast). Over the years, there have been two main types--Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles--with variations of Fruity Pebbles in between. I don't know about you, but I've loved both cereals since I first tasted them. All those little pieces forming a big crunchy, tasty, mass inside your mouth can only make you want more. It's kind of like how mini M&Ms work, just not as sweet or dry (provided you eat the cereal with milk). Now, there's a new member joining the family: Cupcake Pebbles. Does it merit its place?


Cupcake Pebbles features the prototypical shape of the cereal--flattened, crinkly crisps--speckled with tiny, multicolored sprinkles. Think birthday-cake-ice-cream-turned cereal (okay, I admit that wasn't the most witty comparison, but I couldn't think of anything else). When you open that plastic bag full of the stuff, you immediately smell cupcakes. Very sweet ones, at that. In fact, the scent is almost overpowering (and, most certainly, mouthwatering). Post has successfully created a cereal that smells like the real thing.


Now on to the big question: does it taste like the real thing? Yes, and no. Put these little babies in your mouth and your mouth is, again, flowing with all those tiny things culminating into a whole (and thus proving the concept of holism). But it's not really much. It does taste like cake with frosting, but a blander one than you'd think. That's one definite thing; it's not as sweet as it smells. Which is good, because I'm not sure I'd like too much "frosting."

It's not as sweet as Cocoa Pebbles--which was able to balance the flavor quite a bit without going on overload--and definitely not as tangy as Fruity Pebbles, which tend to taste weird (and too much) sometimes. I personally liked it, moreso than I do Fruity Pebbles. It might, however, be too tasteless for others, especially when you add in too much milk.

That's a good balance to add to the "spectrum" of the other Pebbles. It smells like a cake, and you can pretend like you're having one. Additionally, it doesn't taste a little too much like frosting like other "cakelike" products tend to do, and instead focuses on the actual "cake" part. Cupcake Pebbles is now a personal favorite, and I'm sure that it will stay that way.