Cinnamon Toast Crunch Mexican Style Hot Chocolate Review
- Jordan Naeem
- 5 MIN CRUNCH
The opening bite
The squares come in at full Toast Crunch strength: dense, loud, and solid all the way through the first spoonful. Then the flavor shows up. In milk, a full-bodied chocolate hits first, with real cocoa weight behind it. Right behind it comes a flash of cinnamon sweetness, the signature move Cinnamon Toast Crunch has been making since 1984. The two take turns instead of fighting, which is the whole trick, and it’s executed perfectly. Flavor payload: 10.0.
The milk situation
The milk turns into Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk. That’s a compliment, and it’s also the catch. It drinks almost exactly like the cinnamon-sugar milk the original leaves behind, with a slight hint of chocolate underneath. It’s great milk. For a cereal with hot chocolate on the box, though, we wanted more cocoa coming through, and it stops short. Milk transformation: 9.0.
Bowl longevity is where this box surprised us. The cocoa coating sticks to the squares deep into the bowl instead of rinsing off in the first few bites, so the late spoonfuls still taste like chocolate. Bowl longevity: 9.0.
Where it loses points
Eat this dry and it’s a different cereal. The cinnamon sweetness disappears entirely, and the cocoa coating does the squares no favors without milk. Dry versus milk is night and day. Dry snackability: 6.5.
The milk loses a point too. It’s standard Cinnamon Toast Crunch milk with a faint cocoa accent. Good, just not hot chocolate.
Cereal is meant to be eaten with milk, though, and nobody buys a hot chocolate cereal to eat it out of the box. The dry score stays on the card. It doesn’t come off the overall.
The Good
- Full-bodied chocolate first, cinnamon flash right behind
- Flavor payload: a perfect 10.0
- Cocoa coating hangs on deep into the bowl
- Classic Toast Crunch crunch, fully intact
- Dust situation barely registers
The Criminal
- Dry, the cinnamon vanishes completely
- Cocoa coating falls flat without milk
- Milk is standard CTC milk with a hint of cocoa
- Seasonal only, so stock up
Milk Takes
The verdict
We weren’t sure about this one at first. With milk, it’s a 9.3 and the best chocolate-cinnamon bowl we’ve had, and it earns a Hall of Crunch designation. ADD MILK. BECOME A BELIEVER.
The verdict
all timer
Crunch level
9.5
Flavor payload
10.0
Milk transformation
9.0
Bowl longevity
9.0
Dust situation
9.5
Dry Snackability
6.5
Box art
9.5
Jordan Naeem
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