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LENNY & LARRY’S PUMPKIN SPICE COMPLETE COOKIE

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Welcome to day 6 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today we’ll take a look at Lenny & Larry’s Pumpkin Spice Complete Cookie:

I have so many questions.

First, who are Lenny and Larry?

I think they may be related to Carla Hall:

Second, what’s up with the “Holiday Recipe” surrounded by snowflakes?  What “holiday” are they talking about?

So wrong

Third, while nearly every pumpkin product I’ve found has at least one pumpkin on the packaging, this one doesn’t have any.  The only “pumpkin” thing on the wrapper is this:

Be honest — did you know what that was at first glance?  I didn’t.  But after studying it for a few seconds I realized it’s a forkful of pumpkin pie.  They couldn’t even spring for a wedge of pie?

The cookie is a “complete package” that contains no soy, dairy, egg, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, or sugar alcohols:

So what is in it?  Well, there’s pumpkin puree and cinnamon (and chicory root fiber?):

I was kinda surprised to see that one cookie is a whopping 440 calories (you and I both know that no one is going to eat half a cookie):

And here’s the complete cookie:

I didn’t like this cookie at all.  Although it had a pumpkin flavor, it also had a grassy flavor, I assume from the chicory root, and it was damp and cold and gummy, no doubt due to the addition of vegetable glycerine, guar gum, and xanthan gum.  I wouldn’t recommend blowing 440 calories on this cookie for breakfast — not when you can have an Egg McMuffin for 300 calories.  Then again, I’m not vegan.

Interestingly, however, my dogs went bonkers for this cookie, staring my husband down until he shared.  Maybe the H-E-B pumpkin dog snacks whet their palates for pumpkin.  Or maybe it’s just because they’re pumpkin-colored dogs.

Rating:  1 pumpkin (out of 5)

NESPRESSO PUMPKIN SPICE CAKE

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Welcome to day 3 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza 2020!

Today we’re going to curl up with a cup of Nespresso Pumpkin Spice Cake:

This blend is described as having a “wide range of spice notes, mainly defined by cloves, cinnamon and cardamom” with “sweet pumpkin flavor.”  Cardamom isn’t generally considered one of the pumpkin spices (which are a mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice), but I’m game. The capsule is orange and shiny, like a magical pumpkin spice talisman:   

I was looking forward to my Pumpkin Spice Cake coffee.  After all, I like Nespresso’s other “baked goods” coffees — hazeltino muffin, caramel cookie, and vanilla custard pie — and I had great hopes for this one.  But pay attention to the “insider tip” — “With milk, the spice notes are softened for a sweeter and smoother coffee.”  What they really mean is that without milk, it is a nasty, in-your-face-brew. Maybe they should have left out the cardamom:But a generous splash of half and half, and for me a little sweetener, transformed it into a pleasant enough autumnal cup of Joe (although it ain’t no hazeltino muffin):Although Nespresso Pumpkin Spice Cake was interesting to try, and not half bad, I wouldn’t buy it again — not when I could have a cup of Caramel Cookie instead.

Rating:  3 pumpkins (out of 5)