We Tried Trader Joe’s New Cookies ‘n Cream Mini Sheet Cake

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…

ByMichelleJanuary 13, 20260Comments

Dessert Product Review

The Best Way to Eat Trader Joe’s New Double Chocolate Batard

If you love a chocolate chocolate chip bagel, you'll like the newest item to hit Trader Joe's bakery section. Trader Joe's Double Chocolate Batard is a par-baked loaf you throw in the oven to heat through and crisp up for 10-12 minutes. Then you stuff it in your face post haste. The loaf…

ByMichelleDecember 11, 20250Comments

Product Review

Trader Joe’s New Sheet Cake is a Summer Showstopper

Have you noticed all the new strawberry-flavored products dropping at Trader Joe's lately? Sour strawberry belts, strawberry doodle cookies, teeny tiny strawberry rhubarb pies? Well, the summer showstopper is here: Trader Joe's Strawberry Mini Sheet Cake. It's topped with a cream cheese frosting with strawberry puree and speckled with freeze dried strawberry bits. The ones…

ByMichelleJune 4, 20250Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Passion Fruit Sorbet

It's no secret that I am a big fan of passion fruit (aka lilikoi), so I am loving Trader Joe's being in their Passion Fruit era. From the Passion Fruit Rounds to the Passion Fruit Spindrift to Passion Fruit Meringue Tartlettes, I am all about it. Now, Trader Joe's has added a concentrated punch of…

ByMichelleMay 29, 20250Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Dubai (Style) Chocolate

Trader Joe's jumps on the Dubai (Style) Chocolate trend with PatisLove's Pistachio Dark Chocolate version that's $3.99 for a 3.5 oz bar. Made in Turkey, the bar features a pistachio filling with crunchy kataifi (crunchy filo) bits and it's fantastic. I've been whatever about Dubai Chocolate because of the price and the hype, but this…

ByMichelleMay 27, 20250Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Mini Taiyaki

These days, you usually see taiyaki used as a soft serve cone with a swirl of matcha coming out of the fish's mouth. But the classic filling is red bean paste (anko). You might also see chocolate or custard like these Trader Joe's Mini Taiyaki. They come 8 to a bag and you just pop…

ByMichelleApril 22, 20250Comments

Product Review

Trader Joe’s New Must Have Easter Dessert

Ohhh, if you're a passion fruit lover, you better run to Trader Joe's now. LIKE NOW. Trader Joe's Passion Fruit Meringue Tartelettes ($4.99 for a pkg of 2) landed in the freezer section this week. And they are goooooooood. Think of it as a fancier lilikoi chiffon pie. Usually passion fruit desserts…

ByMichelleApril 1, 20250Comments

Product Review

Trader Joe’s New Chocolate Macaron Ice Cream Sandwiches

Trader Joe's Chocolate Macaron Ice Cream Sandwiches are a no-brainer. But what you need to know is, there are only 2 to a box ($4.99). So make sure you get enough for everyone, because there will be fights over these. The box advises letting them thaw for 5 minutes, but you really don't need to.…

ByMichelleMarch 13, 20250Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Blood Orange Mochi Ice Cream

Orange is not typically my go-to flavor. And in most desserts it's whatever, take-it-or-leave-it for me. But blood orange is something special. There's something about that slightly berry note in it, maybe? So Trader Joe's Blood Orange mochi ice cream? Into the basket it goes! For me, the ice cream is somewhere between sherbet…

ByMichelleFebruary 26, 20250Comments

Product Review

We Tried Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Yellow Mini Sheet Cake

with Chocolate Frosting! I've been on alert for Trader Joe's Yellow Mini Sheet Cake with chocolate frosting after seeing u/aswewaltz posted it in NY on Reddit 8 days ago. Every trip, I was disappointed. But today...finally... TJ's in the PNW have been blessed with the new gluten free sheet cake. So let's cut into it!…

ByMichelleFebruary 20, 20250Comments

We Tried Trader Joe’s New Cookies ‘n Cream Mini Sheet Cake

The Best Way to Eat Trader Joe’s New Double Chocolate Batard

Trader Joe’s New Sheet Cake is a Summer Showstopper

We Tried Trader Joe’s Passion Fruit Sorbet

We Tried Trader Joe’s Dubai (Style) Chocolate

We Tried Trader Joe’s Mini Taiyaki

Trader Joe’s New Must Have Easter Dessert

Trader Joe’s New Chocolate Macaron Ice Cream Sandwiches

We Tried Trader Joe’s Blood Orange Mochi Ice Cream

We Tried Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Yellow Mini Sheet Cake

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