REVIEW: Dunkin’ Cookie Butter Cloud Latte

Dunkin’ Cookie Butter Cloud Latte with lid

After becoming a popular off-menu item last year, Dunkin’ has made the Cookie Butter Cloud Latte an official member of its 2025 holiday lineup. This is excellent news for us all because this delicious drink might be the best gift of the season, and now we don’t have to worry about ordering it wrong.

The iced latte mixes espresso with milk and cookie butter syrup and tops it with cookie butter cold foam and a sprinkling of cookie butter crumbles. In a year where cookie butter has spread all across the food landscape, it’s truly found its sweet spot with this beverage. If you’ve still never tried cookie butter but you have taken a flight in the last thirty years, you’re probably familiar with the warmly spiced flavor of speculoos cookies. Delightful year-round, they’re especially suited to winter and a perfect pairing with coffee.

Dunkin’ Cookie Butter Cloud Latte close up of cookie crumbles

True to the name, this latte is capped with a cold foam that is wonderfully airy and cloud-like. It’s soft, gently spiced, and not overly sweet. While I’m sure a glance at the nutrition facts will tell me that I’m essentially drinking liquid sugar, it really doesn’t taste that way. The spoonful of crumbles that adorn the foam initially provides some crunchy textural contrast, but soon sinks into the cloud, something I myself would not mind doing. They soften to a sandy, without being gritty mouthfeel like a cookie perfectly dunked in milk.

Dunkin’ Cookie Butter Cloud Latte side view

Once the foam has sadly subsided, you’re left with my favorite sort of holiday coffee, which is one that actually tastes like coffee. So often these beverages can be over-the-top sweet and feel more like a melted sundae than a latte, but this stays firmly in the coffee zone. You can taste the espresso, and it’s nicely complemented by the creamy milk and buttery, brown sugar cookie notes. It smells and tastes just like you think the holidays should, with a warm spice blend that’s like a complex but less aggressive gingerbread. From the first whiff of the cookie bits and cold foam to the last sip, the aromas and flavors of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and brown sugar make this drink taste like Christmas in a cup.

I don’t know who first decided that Biscoff cookies were the perfect in-flight snack (okay, the internet tells me it was Michael McGuire who tasted them in Europe and pitched the idea to Delta – Thanks, Europe and Mike!). But Dunkin’ has convinced me that its Cookie Butter Cloud Latte is the perfect holiday drink. Thanks to a recent promotion, I paid less than three dollars for this drink and liked it so much I had it three times in one week. At its regular price of $5.69, I probably won’t purchase it every day, but I would like to, because it’s that good. Dunkin’ gift cards are going straight to the top of my wishlist this year. Santa reads The Impulsive Buy, right?

Purchased Price: $2.22 (with a $2 deal in the app, regular price $5.69)
Size: Medium
Rating: 10 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (Medium Iced) 370 calories, 12 grams of total fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 35 milligrams of cholesterol, 210 milligrams of sodium, 56 grams of total carbs, 0 grams of dietary fiber, 56 grams of total sugar, and 9 grams of protein.

SPOTTED (TRADER JOE’S EDITION) 12/16/2025

Here are some interesting new products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of them, share your thoughts in the comments.

Trader Joe's Organic Double Chocolate Batard
Trader Joe’s Organic Double Chocolate Batard
Trader Joe's Deli Duo Uncured Genoa Salami & Provolone Cheese
Trader Joe’s Deli Duo Uncured Genoa Salami & Provolone Cheese
Trader Joe's Beef & Queso Bowl
Trader Joe’s Beef & Queso Bowl
Trader Joe's Cold Brew Coffee Smooth & Rich Black
Trader Joe’s Cold Brew Coffee Smooth & Rich Black
Trader Joe's Trio Of Flavored Honey
Trader Joe’s Trio Of Flavored Honey
Trader Joe's Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Trader Joe’s Greek Extra Virgin Olive Oil
(Spotted by Sarah R at Trader Joe’s.)

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TIB’S SEASON OF GIVING 2025: Day 7

You must have a lot of questions about these Count Chocula socks I got from General Mills. I’ll try to answer some of them:

Do these go up to my ankles, shins, knees, thighs?

They are no show socks. So expect little to no ankle coverage.

What shoe sizes do they fit?

According to the box, they are for shoe sizes 4-10.

What are the socks made out of?

97% polyester and 3% spandex.

Do they make my feet smell like Count Chocula?

Only if you put Count Chocula in the sock before placing your feet into them.

Will General Mills bring back Fruit Brute?

You’re asking the wrong person.

If I win this and throw this into someone’s Christmas stocking, will you tell them that I got it for free?

No. But who knows what Santa will do with you next year.

RULES:

To enter this prize drawing for these choco sockos, leave a comment with THIS post, and that comment MUST include the word “turophile.”

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We will stop accepting entries on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time. Only one comment is allowed per person, and it’s only open to U.S. residents.

JUST A FEW OF NOTES:

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Good luck!

FINE PRINT:

The Impulsive Buy won’t use your email address to send you emails regarding Amazon class action lawsuits or use your mailing address to send AARP life insurance. Bribes will not be accepted. The Impulsive Buy will not be responsible for lost mail, damaged mail, or your feet being too small for these socks.

SPOTTED: Pop & Bottle Dubai Style Chocolate Pistachio Almond Milk Latte

Pop & Bottle Dubai Style Chocolate Pistachio Almond Milk Latte.

The Dubai-style chocolate craze won’t be going bai-bai-bai any time soon. (Spotted by Robbie at Costco.)

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REVIEW: Pop-Tarts Protein Boostin’ Brown Sugar Cinnamon

Pop-Tarts Protein Boostin' Brown Sugar Cinnamon box

There will come a time, likely at the beginning of next month if history is any indicator, where many of us in the junk food community — myself included — will find ourselves standing in front of a bathroom mirror, or on an unforgiving bathroom scale, lamenting the devious being who invented Chex Party Mix, puppy chow, and those delightfully sinful temptations that haunt my dreams, Oreo balls. We will pledge to right the ship in the new year by eschewing things that weren’t grown in dirt or on trees, by taking walks over our lunch breaks, and by avoiding sugar like it’s the door handle of a grade school bathroom.

We know how to eat healthy, sure. The problem is eating healthy isn’t always delicious, and as human people, we like to eat delicious things. Kellogg’s is trying to up its share of the health food market by cramming its beloved breakfast pastries with extra protein. Okay, so “cramming” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. And make no mistake, despite the increased amount of protein, these are still far from healthy food.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a pretty harsh Pop-Tart critic. Over the last several years, Pop-Tarts, as much if not more so than any other food, seemed to have suffered from shrinkflation. With each passing package, they seem to lose frosting coverage, and, much like my joy while consuming, the filling has diminished. I just can’t justify the sugar and the calories when I get so little happiness in return. The new extra protein version, however, was a markedly different experience.

Pop-Tarts Protein Boostin' Brown Sugar Cinnamon icing

Each pastry was covered in frosting, with only the barest edge of crust untouched. There seemed to be more filling than I’ve grown accustomed to, too. I had Protein Boostin’ Brown Sugar Cinnamon (Brown Sugar Cinnamon being the best all-time regular Pop-Tart, of course), and each bite was full of that familiar cinnamon-y goodness. (These also come in Bumpin’ Blueberry and Slammin’ Strawberry, because, in the name of health, food must be bumped, slammed, and/or boosted, obviously.)

The only difference I could notice from a regular Pop-Tart was the texture; these were chewier than usual, but not to the point of distraction. What I mean is, if you haven’t had a normal Pop-Tart in several years, the textural difference probably won’t even be noticeable.

Pop-Tarts Protein Boostin' Brown Sugar Cinnamon filling

I enjoyed the box I bought enough to want to try the other varieties. I’d be surprised if they remain on shelves, though. People looking for gainz won’t find many here — 10 grams for two tarts from milk protein concentrate and wheat protein, isn’t exactly incredible, and only double the original, plus you’re ingesting 31 grams of sugar along the way — and the regular Pop-Tart consumer probably won’t be bothered to spend an extra buck.

Purchased Price: $3.48
Size: 14.3 oz box/8 pastries
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 7 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2 Pop-Tarts) 400 calories, 11 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 20 milligrams of cholesterol, 290 milligrams of sodium, 67 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 31 grams of sugar, and 10 grams of protein.

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