Name: Birthday Cake Flavor Creme Oreo
Description: Birthday cake flavour creme naturally and artificially flavoured with rainbow sprinkles chocolate sandwich cookies
Made in: Canada
Bought in: USA
Weight: 482g

Let’s face it – Oreo’s US Birthday Cake flavour really is the peak of birthday cake perfection. Oreos have that wonderful balance of the sickly sweet cream and the slightly bitter biscuits. If there is one downside, the sprinkles aren’t as big and colourful as they could be, and they have no crunch to them, although you wouldn’t really notice thanks to the crispness of the biscuit anyway.

Flavour wise – the cream tastes more like sugar than it does vanilla – and this is what makes me think that ideal birthday cake is more than just vanilla. It needs some of that sugary creamyness you would get from the frosting on a cake. I think the important part though is that there is only a subtle hint of the flavour. Most of it is sugar and the palm and canola oil used as the cream base. Companies that just pump vanillin in haven’t quite got the balance right.

It’s worth noting the thickness of the cream too. This is pretty much the same as UK “Double Creme” Oreos. This is part of the reason that US Oreos are better than the UK ones anyway – the UK ones have such pitiful amounts of cream in the middle. You can see some good colourful sprinkles inside, although they have no real discernable texture of their own.

Apparently the flavouring includes cinnamon, but I’m not sure if that’s in the biscuit or the cream.

All in all, these are pretty great. Despite me finding them to be pretty much the peak of birthday cake sophistication, I can’t give them five cakes out of five, because the sprinkles aren’t distinct enough.

In the future, we’ll visit the utter mess that is the UK Birthday Party Oreos…

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cake-o-meter: 🎂🎂🎂🎂