Ooh, Trader Joe’s, you’re evil. In January, just as everyone’s coming out of the holidays, you sling a new mini sheet cake onto shelves! I rolled through to pick up the new Clementine Foaming Hand Soap, but I couldn’t resist Trader Joe’s Cookies n Cream Mini Sheet Cake ($5.99). Cookies ‘n Cream isn’t even really a fave flavor of mine, but into the basket it went.
I regret to inform you…it’s pretty good. The cake is on the denser side, so as always check the sell by date so you get the freshest one you can. It’s a vanilla cake with crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and a cream cheese frosting sprinkled with more crushed cookies. The size of the bits in the cake varies, but they’re mostly well crushed up. Are they Joe-Joe’s? Unclear.
Let’s get a little closer, shall we? For me, the cream cheese frosting is more generous than I need. And I suspect it’s where most of the sugar is, because while it does have a bit of a cream cheese tang, the frosting is pretty sweet. And this one is clocking in at 34g of sugar per serving (1/6 of the cake). That seems to be relatively on the higher side among TJ’s other mini sheet cakes (for example, GF yellow – 25g; pumpkin spice 29g; carrot 30g; lemon – 32g).
That said, I like this one a lot. It doesn’t eclipse the gluten-free yellow mini sheetcake with chocolate frosting for me, but it’s good. I could finish this slice no problem, even if I scraped off some of the frosting. :D
Check out some other We Tried’s from Trader Joe’s:
Gluten Free Yellow Mini Sheet Cake
Pumpkin Spice Mini Sheet Cake vs. Pumpkin Loaf (IG)