Cinnamon Toast Crunch is one of the most beloved cereals, and many of its limited edition seasonal flavors, such as Apple Pie and Sugar Cookie, have been home runs.
For this year’s winter season, we get another seasonal flavor: Mexican Style Hot Chocolate. Since we’ve already had Churros, Dulce de Leche, and Tres Leches, it only makes sense that we would get another Mexican-adjacent flavor. Though this cereal is evidently for wintertime, it’s out early enough that you could include it for your Day of the Dead celebrations if you wanted.
Mexican hot chocolate typically has cinnamon, and sometimes it has “hot” spices like cayenne pepper. Thankfully, this cereal does not have hot spices (even though we have seen that before!).
I expected that the chocolate flavoring would be subtle. But the cereal pieces are generously dusted with a cocoa-y powder, and there’s no mistaking that this is a chocolate cereal.
With that said, the chocolate flavor is not aggressive. Chocolate fiends might wish for more, and it doesn’t really impart much cocoa flavor to the milk. But if you want something super chocolatey, you can just pick a different chocolate cereal instead.
Obviously, this cereal prominently features cinnamon. Is it different than regular cinnamon in Cinnamon Toast Crunch? I don’t actually know, but it seems that way to me. The combination of cocoa and cinnamon gives the cereal a robust flavor. While this is a sugary cereal with anthropomorphic cartoon cereal pieces on the front, the cereal seems slightly more mature than the ordinary version.
Mexican Style Hot Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch is a delightful addition to the canon of CTC flavors, and I will definitely buy it again this season.
Purchased Price: $4.93
Size: 18.8 oz box
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (1 cup) 170 calories, 4.5 grams of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 1 gram of polyunsaturated fat, 3 grams of monounsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 200 milligrams of sodium, 31 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of dietary fiber, 12 grams of sugar (including 12 grams of added sugar), and 3 grams of protein.
