White Castle has had a line of frozen tiny sliders for years. But now there are White Castle Desserts to help you complete your White Castle meal from the freezer aisle.
I know it says “mini” on the boxes, but I didn’t realize how so until I opened one. They fit comfortably in the palm of my hand. They’re super adorbs! I just want to cup them in my hands and tell them how cute they are, like a pet mouse.
There are four White Castle Desserts to choose from: Fudge-Dipped Brownie, Fudge-Dipped Peanut Butter Pie, Fudge-Dipped Strawberry Cheesecake, and Gooey Butter Cake.
Fudge-Dipped Brownie
This is similar to the Fudge-Dipped Brownie offered at White Castle restaurants. I’ve never had one, so I can’t compare the two, but the freezer aisle version is mostly like biting into a pie shaped piece of fudge. I know it’s fudge dipped, but the whole thing feels and tastes like I’m eating fudge. Look at the cross section photo below; it looks more like fudge than a brownie.
The section closest to the stick, the unfudged part, does taste more like a box mix brownie, than fudge. There are chocolate chips, but with my taste buds overloaded with fudge flavor, it’s impossible to distinguish them. So they’re there more for show.
It may be tiny, but it’s dense. How dense is it? It’s more so than the number of times I used the word “fudge” in the last two paragraphs. It’s so much so that there’s no way I could eat another right after eating one.
Purchased Price: $6.99
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 7 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 240 calories, 100 calories from fat, 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 90 milligrams of sodium, 34 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 26 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.
Fudge-Dipped Peanut Butter Pie
Before trying any of them, I thought this variety would end up being my favorite because the chocolate and peanut butter combo has almost always made my lips emit an “MMMM.” But with this mini dessert, my mouth thought about letting out a “meh.”
The peanut butter part of the pie tastes similar to a PB cookie. It’s dense, much like the brownie one. It’s also gritty and has a noticeable saltiness to it. The fudge coating also seems to have gained some of that nutty flavor. There’s also a cocoa cookie crust on the bottom that enhances the fudge flavor.
The dessert as a whole tastes like a generic peanut butter cup, which sounds like a good thing. But much like the Fudge-Dipped Brownie, it’s also bit too dense and rich for me, which makes it less appealing. Also, its saltiness is a little more than I’d like.
Surprisingly, this ended up being my least favorite. It’s far from terrible, but when I compare it with the others, I prefer the others more.
Purchased Price: $6.99
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 6 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 280 calories, 190 calories from fat, 21 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 210 milligrams of sodium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, 14 grams of sugar, and 4 grams of protein.
Fudge-Dipped Strawberry Cheesecake
This is the one that stood out for me. It’s the one where I said to myself, “Sugar count, be damned! I want another.”
The flavors come in waves. The strawberry hits first, which reminds me of strawberry ice cream, then a cheesecake tanginess comes across my taste buds. The graham cracker-like crust adds a bit of saltiness to the dessert that enhances the other flavors. But it also adds a texture that’s like compacted wet sand falling apart. I thought the fudge would make this more like a chocolate dipped strawberry, but the coating doesn’t play a strong role with the dessert’s flavor.
There are darker bits in the strawberry filling and a few streaks that are strawberry jam-like, which help make the fruit flavor stand out and lessen the fudge’s impact. Those streaks are under the coating, so in real life it doesn’t quite look like what’s on the box.
Also, being lighter than the brownie and peanut butter pie varieties helped make me enjoy this more.
Purchased Price: $6.99
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 180 calories, 80 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 6 grams of saturated fat, 10 milligrams of cholesterol, 110 milligrams of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 11 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.
Gooey Butter Cake
Gooey is not the most accurate adjective to describe this frozen Butter Cake. Dry and crumbly are probably more correct. Even after letting it sit for the recommended 5-10 minutes, its lack of gooey-ness didn’t change.
I’ve never had a butter cake, but as I chewed my way through this dessert, all I could think about was pound cake, which I very much enjoy. According to the ingredients list, there also a cream cheese component to it, but I didn’t taste it.
It’s not as dense as the other White Castle Dessert because there’s cake involved, which is the reason why the whole thing is dry and crumbly. The top layer is dense and drier than the lower tier and gives the dessert a cookie-like crunch. Both layers need to eaten together to get the optimum flavor because individually they taste just okay.
Even though its textures aren’t optimal, its flavor almost wholly makes up for it. It’s not overly sweet like some of the others, and I could see myself double fisting this.
Purchased Price: $6.99
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 7 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 220 calories, 80 calories from fat, 9 grams of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 45 milligrams of cholesterol, 140 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 22 grams of sugar, and 3 grams of protein.
Other Things
- Except for the Gooey Butter Cake, they’re quite solid when pulled out of sub-zero temperatures. So if you do try to take a bite out of them at that point, pulling a piece away is going to make it feel as if any teeth aligning work you’ve gotten done has just gone to waste.
- The long-winded instructions on most of the boxes say to let them thaw for 5-10 minutes before eating. But, for some reason, the brownie one says to wait 15 to 30 minutes. Fortunately, I found all of them to be soft enough after three minutes.
- The White Castle logo is on the sticks, but with half of the dessert I’ve eaten the logo is face down. It’s a minor thing, but I guess I’m a sucker for consistency.
Considering how small those are, $6.99 for a 4 pack seems outrageous
Well, I do live in Hawaii, so I imagine these will be one or two dollars cheaper on the mainland.
They are in fact $2 cheaper on the mainland.
They are in fact $2 cheaper on the mainland.
They also changed the “Prep Instructions” from 15-30 minute counter defrost time to 05-10 minute counter defrost time.
Great review! I also noticed the inconsistent logo placement.
The “gooey butter cake” is horrible. Two bites to confirm the second was as bad as the first, and the rest of the box got pitched in the trash.
Last year they were 6.99…..last week under 3.00 on sale at Jewel in Chicago. I wouldn’t buy a box at 6.99 I did after it went on sale. Is White Castle kidding??? These things are tiny, tiny, small, LITTLE, weiny pices of peanut butter or something??? 2 to 3 bites maybe of so called dessert…the big box has 4 dessert pies. That still wouldn’t come close to a standard piece of pie. When they price the box at .75 cents you can still pass it up
JS, they were $6.99 in Hawaii. The author goes over this in the above comments. He lives in Hawaii, which means most stuff normally costs more due to the various factors, one of them being shipping and The Jones Act. I don’t disagree that even $3 is still on the high side, but it’s partially because it comes with the branding. White Castle’s frozen sliders, in my opinion, cost on the high side for essentially frozen mini burgers. Even when I see them on-sale and I have a $1-off coupon on-hand for them, I still often find the boxes of frozen sliders to be overpriced. It’s part of branding. It sucks, but it’s reality. Now, personally, I enjoyed the little desserts, so if the boxes ever went for $0.75 a box, I’d be stocking up like a madman, lmfao! But that comes down to my own personal opinion and tastes, so I’m not saying that you’re wrong there at all. I just felt compelled to explain the pricing a bit and note that their $3 per box pricing is fairly in-line with their pricing on their frozen sliders boxes.
Well THANK you for this!! I just got done eating one I saved from our trek to the castle yesterday and I told my boyfriend, I would Die if they sold these in bulk/store. 4 pack is a bit small-ESPECIALLY for that price in Hawaii- but probably for the best for everyones sake actually haha.
I Do however think you are CRAZY for thinking you’d only buy these at 75 cents a box.. Literally they sell em for 1.25each at the restaurant. So 75 cents each in a both is worth it.
(I Had to comment because I live in the burbs of Chicago just down the street from a Jewel and am Now sad I didnt look for them when I was there, but eternally grateful for Hearing they’ve been spotted there.)
Very, very small. They do not taste like a frozen dessert because they are mostly sugar and sugar doesn’t actually get chilled or frozen. Nutritionally they are bad news, and they are expensive for how miniature they are – currently $2 / box at Grocery Outlet.
To review: taste bad, overpriced, nutritionally bad
I hope to never make an impulse buy like this one again (and that no one else makes the same mistake).