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Cinnamon Toast Crunch Peanut Butter Review

“We love cinnamon. We love peanut butter. This box made us like both of them less.”
Cinnamon Toast Crunch Peanut Butter Cereal Review
We love cinnamon. We love peanut butter. This box made us like both of them less.

The opening bite

The squares hit the spoon with the familiar Cinnamon Toast Crunch snap, and the crunch is the best thing in the bowl by a wide margin. Dense, sturdy, loud. Then the flavor shows up, and it shows up twice. The Cinnadust lands first, the peanut butter shoves in right behind it, and neither one backs down. What should be a partnership tastes like a fight.

Two beloved flavors went into this box, and somehow both of them came out worse.

The milk situation

The crunch is why this score starts with a 7. The squares hold their structure for ~6 minutes in cold milk, which earns the 8.5 for bowl longevity and keeps the back half of the bowl worth finishing. The milk transformation is where the fight gets worse. The milk picks up cinnamon and peanut butter in roughly equal parts and never turns into anything coherent: sweet, a little nutty, and muddy. We drank it. We did not go back for a second sip on purpose.

Where it loses points

Flavor payload is a 7.0, and that number is generous to the concept. Cinnamon and peanut butter should work together. Here they compete for the top spot, and neither flavor gets to be good. Dry snackability lands at 6.5, because straight from the box there’s no milk to soften the clash. The dust situation is also a 6.5, and the box-bottom sediment piles up faster than it should. Cinnamon Toast Crunch has a strong record with its alternate flavors. This one sits in the bottom tier.

The Good

  • Crunch level 9.5: dense, loud, elite squares
  • Bowl longevity holds ~6 minutes in milk
  • Back half of the bowl stays worth finishing

The Criminal

  • Cinnamon and peanut butter fight instead of pair
  • Both flavors come out worse than they started
  • Dry snacking makes the clash louder
  • Bottom-tier among CTC's alternate flavors

Milk Takes

“The milk tastes like two flavors arguing in the next room.”

The verdict

The squares earn the 7.5 on their own, because crunch and bowl longevity carry everything the flavor drops. We love what Cinnamon Toast Crunch usually does with alternate flavors, and this isn’t that. BUY THE ORIGINAL INSTEAD.

7.5

The verdict

BUY THE ORIGINAL INSTEAD.
★ The score
7.5

slaps

Crunch level

9.5

Flavor payload

7.0

Milk transformation

7.0

Bowl longevity

8.5

Dust situation

6.5

Dry Snackability

6.5

Box art

8.0
★ The Scooper

Jordan Naeem

Founder, chief spoon, professional milk witness. Eats one bowl for the scoop and the rest for research. Strong opinions about marshmallow ratios, stronger ones about bedtime.
★ Fun fact
This isn’t peanut butter’s first shot at the Toast Crunch squares. Peanut Butter Toast Crunch came out in 2004, came back in 2012, and was gone again by 2014, and that version had no cinnamon at all. The 2026 return added Cinnadust to the mix, which is exactly where things went sideways.
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