Pumpkin Spice Malted Milk Balls

Central Market strikes again! Apparently, they had some extra bright orange pumpkin spice flavoring left over from the bark they made and so they mixed it in with some malted milk balls. Consequently, they taste a lot like the bark... the same really strong spice flavor. Of course the main difference is that here, the spice has a a crisp malted milk partner as opposed to a creamy chocolate attachment.

I just happen to like malted milk balls so I found these pretty good.

Salem Baking Moravian Pumpkin Spice Cookies

These tasty little treats are crispy cookies with a great pumpkin flavor. In fact, it's almost like a little piece of pie crust with the pumpkin filling baked right in. YUM! And the come in a can! It's almost like Pumpkin Pringles.

Plus, they are wafer thin so even Mr. Creosote will eat them! Apparently, Moravian is a style of cookie that is very very thin and originated from the Moravian Church in Colonial America.

Special bonus: They come from Salem Baking which is perfect for Halloween!

Zachary Pumpkin Spice Gourmet Candy Corn

Hey look! Another "Gourmet Pumpkin Spice flavored Candy Corn"! Does it taste better than the other "Gourmet Pumpkin Spice flavored Candy Corn"?

Nope.

Still tastes like candy corn (yuck!) with a hint of something sort of like pumpkin.

The only real difference is that the other kind was a generic.... this one is made by "Zachary".

Jell-O Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Snacks

This one was a miss. The other Jell-O things I've tried were really good... this one was just... weird. The flavor was okay... a good blend of pumpkin and cheesecake, which is always a good mix in my book, but the texture was just strange. It was like a spongy, not quite right, creme brulee. You can even kind of see what I mean in the picture on the package. It was all flan-custardy and was just too strange to get past for me.

I think Mrs. Pumpkinboy enjoyed it though, so maybe it's just me.

Silk Pumpkin Spice Soymilk

YUCK! Soymilk is awful! And the pitiful tasting pumpkin flavor can't mask the awful!

Wolferman's Pumpkin Spice English Muffins

Wolferman's makes some good bread products. English Muffins are good eatin' most any time. So last year when I found out that Wolferman's has a pumpkin spice English muffin, I was all over it. I ordered these along with some original English muffins and some Apple butter.

I must say, I found these to be very interesting... but not for the taste. The flavor was pretty disappointing and I couldn't tell much difference between the pumpkin spice and the original. The apple butter was pretty good on them though.

No, what was interesting was that the original flavor muffins developed mold after about 2 weeks. I finally threw out the pumpkin spice muffins last week (I got these last November). They were stale and hard, but NO MOLD! I'm not sure what's in that pumpkin spice, but mold doesn't like it.

They have these again this year and as a bonus, they now offer pumpkin butter spread. MMMMMM!!!!!!

Golden Temple Pumpkin Spice Cereal

Central Market, my primary source for pumpkin related foods, has a wide variety of bulk cereals. These cereals are basically granola with some dried fruits and sweeteners and such. Still, I was excited to see a cereal/granola concoction that had pumpkin in the name without also including "flax" or "seeds."
Golden Temple Pumpkin Spice Cereal is granola, clusters of unknown make-up, and raisins. It actually tastes like pumpkin, which surprised me a bit. The raisins were annoying though, and unnecessary. I don't like raisins much anyway, but in this case, they really felt extraneous and took away from the pumpkin and spice flavor that worked really well in a bowl with milk.
Next time, I'll just pick out the raisins.

Jell-o Pumpkin Spice Pudding

I love pudding. Not as much as I love ice cream, mind you, but pudding still rocks. So, when I saw this little box of yum, I was giddy.
Pudding is easy to make. Pudding is easy to eat. What's not to love about pudding? And when that pudding has an awesome pumpkin spice flavor, it's fanamatastic!
It tastes like pumpkin pie, except in a creamy, gooey form. You can, if you want, make a pudding pie out of it and there are instructions on the box.
But I'm just fine with a bowl of pudding!

Ring the bell! It's Pumpkin season!

Welcome Fall!

Today being the first day of Autumn, I'm finally getting off my rear end and adding a new entry.

Last week, a friend of mine alerted me to the newest in pumpkin flavored tastiness:

Hershey's Pumpkin Spice Kisses! Yum!

Lately, Hershey's has felt the need to make their signature kisses in a variety of different flavors (the neopolitan ones are better than they sound) and so this time around, they've captured the flavor of pumpkin pie in a tiny confection and wrapped it in foil.

These kisses are soft, as opposed to the solid chocolate original kiss, and Mrs. Pumpkinboy thought they were melty and so we've been storing them in the refridgerator. They have a pretty good color (a orange/tan blend... thankfully not some bright orange color that just screams "PUMPKIN" at you).

They have a lot of flavor for such a small piece of candy. They're fairly rich too, so if you aren't head over heels in love with pumpkin flavor, it might be a tad overpowering. I loved 'em, however; it's like a little pumpkin pie you can eat anywhere.

A few of us at work have decided that these would be fantastic in a shortbread or sugar thumprint cookie. It would really seem like a mini-pumpkin pie or pumpkin tart. Perhaps I will try that.

4 1/2 out of 5 pumpkins