Over the past few years, the grocery market has been completely saturated with special seasonal flavored items. Top companies churn out more and more of them every year because consumers love them. Pumpkin products line the shelves in fall, and gingerbread and peppermint rule the Chrismtas roost, while carrot cake and jelly beans take over around Easter time. Fall is my personal favorite, as I love Pumpkin flavored things. With that time of the year approaching once again, I decided to think of every possible seasonal snack I have ever tried, and come up with all my favorites. The number of items I could think of was over 50, and I decided to whittle the list down to 15 for this list. Even though the fall items are my favorite I tried to even it out between the different seasons for this countdown. So here we go.
15. Starburst Jelly Beans Crazy Beans (Easter Product): Every year around Easter, Starburst releases three separate Jelly beans varieties, tropical, original, and Crazy beans. While the other two are good, the crazy beans are the best. These are two separate flavors in one, as the outer shell has its own distinct flavor and the inside filling also has its own flavor. My personal favorite is Grape-ade, grape flavored shell with lemonade flavored filling.
14. Fruit Punch Oreos: (Summer Product): These were a new item for 2014. For many people an oreo with fruit punch flavored creme doesn't sound very appealing, and I was skeptical at first also, but these ended up being absolutely delicious.
13. Red Velvet M&M's (Valentines Day Product): M&Ms is one of the top brands when it comes to seasonal products, as they have several, a few of which will be seen later on this list. In this one, they perfectly capture the complex flavor of Red Velvet Cake in M&M form.
12. Ghiradelli Peppermint Bark (Christmas Product): These little squares of peppermint Bark have a very refined, subtle peppermint flavor. I am not a huge mint person, and many peppermint products that come out over Christmas time are too overpowering, making this perfect treat stand apart.
11. Gingerbread Peeps (Christmas Product): Peeps are no longer just an Easter staple, as this marhsmallow product was infused with a perfect gingerbread flavor for Christmas. I dont know how they did it, but they captured the gingerbread flavor perfectly.
10. Cookie Dough Donut (Valentines Day Product): It is kind of a strange paring, but over the past few years, cookie dough flavored products have been related to Valentines Day. This cookie dough donut from Dunkin Donuts is like crack. The donut itself is just the usual yeast donut, but the cookie dough filling is so gooey and delicious, that it is able to crack the top 10.
9. Russell Stover Carrot Cake Egg (Easter Product): Russell Stover is a titan when it comes to easter products. They always come out with about 50 different varities of chocolate eggs with a different filling from birthday cake to orange creme, to brownie batter. The best among them is this egg with carrot cake filling.
8. Ben and Jerrys Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice Cream (Fall Product): Pumpkin cheesecake is really good, but pumpkin cheesecake in ice cream form? heavenly
7. Candy Corn Starbursts (Fall Product): This is candy corn texture and shape with a starburst flavor. Much better than actual starbursts.
6. Carrot Cake M&Ms (Easter Product): Another inclusion from M&Ms, and another carrot cake flavored item. One thing Ive learned is actual carrot cake is gross, but in candy form it is actually quite good.
5. Gingerbread Oreos (Christmas Product): The best seasonal Oreo out there.
4. Dunkin Donuts Pumpkin Donut (Fall Product): This is sort of a big one for me, as this was the first pumpkin flavored treat I ever tried and got me into the pumpkin flavored game. Many of the treats on this list are relatively new, but Pumpkin donuts have been released every fall for as long as I can remember. And its no wonder why, they are amazing and people love them.
3. Candy Corn M&Ms (Fall Product): I already have a bag of these in my pantry, as I couldnt wait for them to hit the shelved and ordered a bag off amazon. The best of the seasonal M&M products, these dont exactly taste just like candy corn, but thats ok because candy corn doesnt taste that good. Its hard to describe exactly the taste, all that I can say is it is amazing.
2. Pillsbury Pumpkin Cookies (Fall Product): These were a new one in 2013 and I am eagerly anticipating these coming back. The best thing about these were how versatile they are. You can have them as the plain cookie and they are amazing. You can spread cream cheese icing on them and they are also amazing. You can opt to not bake them and eat the raw cookie dough and they are amazing. Or my favorite, you can put the cookie dough for the microwave for about five seconds and eat it as warm cookie dough. Whatever of the four options you choose, you cant go wrong.
1. Root Beer Floats (Summer Product): A little bit of a twist at the top spot as its not a company released product, instead just a good old fashioned homemade root beer float. As a result, it can be a year round product and is not exclusively limited to the summer, but at its heart, Root Beer Floats are a summer thing, and they smooth and creamy and everything that's right in the world.
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