This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Pop-Tarts.
We always enjoy the opportunity to get creative with Pop-Tarts. Have you been shopping for these little delicacies lately? There are seriously so many flavors. I swear, just a few years ago, you could get strawberry, cherry, brown cinnamon sugar, and maybe blueberry, but since then, wow! All kinds of fun fruits and desserty flavors, chocolate and peanut butter and cookies and cream... (Is it still considered a breakfast food? I submit that yes, yes it is!)
We were able to have some fun with the new Choc-o-Lantern Chocolate Frosted Chocolate Fudge flavored Pop-Tarts. These are chocolate pastries with fudgy insides, frosted orange with small sprinkles of Halloween shapes on top. How fun is that?
We decided to make our very own pumpkin patch. Here are some pictures from our afternoon in the kitchen.
First, we cut out our Pop-Tarts into pumpkin shapes. We used a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter as a guide. Cameron very carefully cut out and sculpted the shape of the pumpkin, trimming when needed.
Then we made some chocolate frosting and piped it onto the pumpkins, making fun jack-o-lantern faces.
Then we made a home-made moist chocolate cake, frosted it, and put the jack-o-lanterns on top to make our pumpkin patch.
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97 comments:
Cherry is my favorite!!! SO yummy! although I dont really like other cherry flavored things... weird....And I have to say I just like them toasted with a little bit of butter... nothing fancy!
Chocolate is the favorite around here. My sons just eat them plain.
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I'm classic old school: strawberry, plain. I had a friend who used to butter hers...
I agree with Lindsey- I like strawberry just toasted, but my kids love brown sugar cinnamon and we haven't experimented with them yet.
The smores pop-tart is delicious...warm it up little so the marshmallow and chocolate get all melty.
Just now I wondered if the yummy raspberry PopTarts would make good cakeball type treats. I think it is worth a try to find out.
In case you couldn't tell, Raspberry is my favorite. I love the chocolate filled, chocolate topped chocolate ones, too!
I love the smore's poptarts, it hits the spot at about 2 in the afternoon:)
I am all about the frosted strawberry :-)
I'm with Teri! Cherry all the way! ;)
My favorite is Strawberry w/ the frosting/sprinkles on the top - YUM!
I am a die hard smores pop tart fan. Love them!
love the brown sugar kind, strawberry is next best!
oh how I miss poptarts tremendously. I am partial to any with frosting!
oxxo steph
I am a Brown Sugar Cinnamon girl all the way...Yummy...I think I'll toast some now :)
When I used to eat them I like the plain Strawberry ones. My kids and husband prefer the brown sugar cinnamon ones. I've never thought to do anything innovative with them. Now you've got me thinking away!
I sometimes buy my kids the low-fat cinnamon ones, they love them because it is a special treat!!
what a cute pumpkin patch! i like the good old-fashion frosted strawberry. this past summer my nephews enjoyed the brown sugar cinnamon and the orange cream flavors.
My favorite flavor is the chocolate chip cookie dough ones. The kids is the brown sugar ones.
AS much as I'd like to say it's some unusual flavor that's not very popular, I have to be honest!I LOVE brown sugar cinnamon ones too! It reminds of when I was alittle girl and my grandmother would allow me to put as much sugar and cinnamon on my toast as I wanted! So I toast them now and let the butter just RUN off of them! I have also been known to eat them cold right out of the package. Yum!
I'm classic old school too...My favorite is Strawberry w/ the frosting/sprinkles on the top YUMMY!!
Another vote for strawberry. And I don't freeze them jst eat them.
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I really like the 'smores and the cinnamon/brown sugar ones. Just plain, not even toasted!
My favorite are Raspberry! Straight from the package, not warmed up or anything!
Cinnamon brown sugar with creamcheese on it! :)
Don't do anything exciting with them. Just toast and eat. I love the cherry flavor.
MCantu1019@aol.com
Love the stawberry, just right out of the box or toasted makes it even better :)
courtney.jay@cox.net
I love the Blueberry frosted ones.
yummo.
I stay away because I'll eat the whoel box
My favorite is cinnamon and brown sugar, toasted, and I cannot imagine anything you could add to them to make them better... except drinking a glass of cold milk along with it.
But the Pop Tarts we usually have in the house are the chocolate fudge flavor. They are my son's favorite, and he lovvvves them un-toasted, with chocolate milk to drink.
This is an easy question! My absolute favorite is unfrosted cinnamon and brown sugar.
Weelll, I'm not that big on pop tarts but my kids love the strawberry flavor! We have tried other flavors such as cookies and cream, but they weren't too hot about them! Collin likes to eat all of the edges first and then the middle part and when I asked him why he does this he said, "Mom, you have to eat the edges first so you can get to the red stuff in the middle, you know...duh!" Yes, you gotta love the lovely comments from my oldest son!!
We love the strawberry flavor! Pretty boring, but that's the one my kids love! I just made a comment but forgot to put my email address on it!!
my what is your favorite Pop-Tarts flavor is strawberry but I am a choc o holic and have not tryed this new flavor yet so that could change lol. Well, I like using pop tarts in a soft serve ice cream blizzard, you just make them as you would making a blizzard with any type candy you crush but instead just crush they pop tart and add it in instead, its really good.
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Blueberry has always been my favorite Pop-Tart flavor, though raspberry runs a close second.
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I tweeted about this
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i love the pumpkin faces, they're so cool. i like strawberry milkshake flavor.
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i tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/syytta/status/27881756723
strawberry frosted just plain old strawberry frosted & don't like it frozen
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My fave is strawberry frosted, but that's all I've ever had and it sounds like I need to branch out to other flavors :)
Brown sugar all the way.
Oh, I just LOVE brown sugar and cinnamon! YUM! They're great for breakfast, dessert, snack, you name it!
I LOVE CHOCOLATE CHIP! Yum!
Strawberry with sprinkles. They have flair!
For me, my favorite is a tie between the Brown Sugar Cinnamon and the Cherry. I love them plain non toasted, but I think the pumpkin pie is sneaking it's way in...those are YUMMY!!!!
What great ideas!! I've never thought about doing anything else with PopTarts. We're lovers of blueberry and cherry - but chocolate is always good too!!
Here's crossing my fingers - while I'm out on unpaid maternity leave, Poptarts are sure to be a favorite for breakfast in my house - save money, save time - haha! :)
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Blueberry is my favorite.
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I am a Brown Sugar Cinnamon girl all the way...Yummy
I like Strawberry and toasted.
Humm--don't have any poptart recepies, but frosted blueberry is my favorite.
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I'd say cherry! Thanks!
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Blueberry! I use them traditionally though. scg00387 at yahoo dot com
I like strawberry best. We aren't creative though, we just eat them.
ajolly1456 at gmail dot com
i love the chocolate frosted ones
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Where to start! We love Pop Tarts in our house! Cinnamon and brown sugar by themselves or crumbled over a sliced apple-microwave for about a minute serve with milk=YUMMY!!! We love the chocolate, strawberry, s'mores, the list goes on and on!
Strawberry - just had one this morning!
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I'd have to say cherry Pop Tarts rock.
YOu can crumble them and put them on top of ice cream. Yum!
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Chocolate pop tarts are the best by far!!!! YUMMO!!
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I love Cinamon. I have never really tried them with anything but I love what you did to your cake! That is great!
I like the blueberry or strawberry the best
truthhole@gmail.com
Love the chocolate pop tarts!
My favorite flavor is the frosted cherry. I do like to store them in the fridge and eat them cold with a glass of milk. Yum!
Brown Sugar Cinnamon for sure. I'm totally boring. I just eat them toasted in the toaster.
Chocolate Fudge and Mint Chocolate...
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Plain chocolate is my favorite.
I love Brown Sugar flavor
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My favorite flavor of pop tarts is brown sugar and cinnamon. I can eat them anytime of the day.
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I tweeted your giveaway
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Our favorit treat to make at halloween was rice krispie treets. The kids could shape them anyway they wanted and got quite creative.
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Chocolate Fudge (I eat those cold, right out of the box) and Cherry. My husband always puts butter on his Pop-Tarts...it sounds weird but it tastes great on a warm Pop-Tart.
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I'm a classic strawberry frosted pop tart eater. :)
My favorite Pop Tart flavor is strawberry. My daughter loves the Jack o lantern chocolate. They will just eat them from warm in toaster. I love all the neat stuff I see everyone doing with pop tarts never would have thought to do some of ti. Thanks for great giveaway.
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Cinnamon and Brown Sugar is the Family favorite. The idea of crumbling it over an Apple and then heating it sounds yummy!!
Favorite flavor: blueberry.
Favorite way to eat them: right out of the package, uncooked. :)
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i like frosted strawberry
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i like frosted blueberry
My favorite is brown sugar cinnamon.
I like to make smore's with them. Use whatever flavor you want, add a marshmellow and wrap them in foil, put them on the grill for 40 seconds on each side.
My favorites are the frosted strawberry ones!
sazzyfrazz at gmail dot com
Strawberry is my favorite Pop Tart flavor. I haven't really tried any of the other flavors.
Frosted strawberry
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Raspberry is my favorite!
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I love the smores flavor and my boys love the oreo ones.
dgoodridge84@yahoo.com
My kids love hot fudge sundae. Me? I love strawberry(which even comes in low fat).
Christine
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Definitely Smores!
I would love a peanut butter/chocolate flavor!
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mmmm I love their frosted grape flavor, though they can be very hard to find. I don't do anything wild with them...just toast them. LOL
Angie
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Angie
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brown sugar and cinnamon for sure!
Scott
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I love strawberry Pop-Tarts toasted (well-done, so it's a little bit crispy). Probably each member of my family would choose a different flavor as their favorite (although we love all of them)!
I've got to admit, I enjoy eating Pop-Tarts just as they are...it never occurred to me to use them in/for anything else.
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I like Smores pop tarts.
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I am so boring! I like the strawberry without the frosting. And I don't even like them toasted!
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