Ranking All Six Kardashian Crumbl Cookies From Worst to Best – ryan
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- Crumbl collaborated with the Kardashians to release six new cookie flavors this week.
- There’s one gluten-free option, two cakes, and four classic cookies.
- I’d only order one of the pastries again.
You’ve heard of Crumbl cookies — now get ready to try Krumbl kookies.
For the week of April 7, Crumbl collaborated with the Kardashian-Jenner family to release six flavors, which means that America’s first reality TV family did a complete menu takeover. There are six brand-new cookie flavors for the five Kardashian-Jenner sisters and their mother.
You might be wondering: Why the Kardashians? Well, according to Crumbl CBO and cofounder Sawyer Hemsley, “It just makes sense.”
“We’ve never had an entire menu takeover before, and who better to do that than the legendary ladies of the Kardashian-Jenner Family,” he said.
“Iconic family meets iconic desserts,” he added.
To see if this “kollaboration” — OK, we’ll stop now — was really worth the hype, I decided to head to my local Crumbl and try all six cookies — and rank them from worst to best.
It’s Kardashian-Jenner Week at Crumbl.
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If you’re not familiar with Crumbl cookies, you will be soon.
The chain of cookie shops was founded in 2017 in Utah by cousins Sawyer Hemsley and Jason McGowan. In the eight years since, Crumbl has become a fast-growing franchise — it now has over 1,000 locations across 50 states.
What makes Crumbl special is that the flavors change weekly. The brand announces its coming week’s flavors on social media on Sunday night.
From personal experience, I know that Crumbl fans are devoted. I have walked by multiple shops to see lines forming out the door.
So, when I heard the Kardashians teamed up with Crumbl to create six different cookies, I knew I had to try them all.
After waiting for five minutes, I left with my special KarJenner box.
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Crumbl boxes are normally pink, but the brand switched up its famous color scheme in favor of a tan box with brown lettering — this might look familiar to any Kardashian fan.
In a nice touch, the sides of the box featured the signatures of Kim, Kourtney, Kris, Kylie, Kendall, and Khloé.
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Of course, Kris signed with her first and last name (Kris Jenner).
Here they are! The offerings from Kylie, Kendall, Kim, Kris, Khloé, and Kourtney are arranged clockwise from the top left.
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Just looking at them, I could tell my sweet tooth was about to be overloaded.
My least favorite was Kourtney’s Flourless Chocolate Cake.
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Kourtney’s cookie wasn’t a cookie at all but a gluten-free cake topped with raspberries. It cost an extra $1.99 and was the only cookie to be gluten-free and free of refined sugar.
Crumbl calls it “a luscious, gluten-friendly chocolate cake” that’s “drizzled with a velvety dark chocolate glaze and crowned with tangy raspberries.”
It has 840 calories.
Right off the bat, I didn’t love the glaze or the raspberry.
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Maybe it’s because I’m just not the biggest raspberry fan, but I took one bite of it before spitting it out. It was lukewarm and squishy (whereas I prefer my berries to be cold with a little bit of firmness).
Once I got underneath the dark chocolate glaze, which I found to be almost sour, I didn’t hate this. The texture was more of a pudding-like consistency than a cake, but I didn’t mind it.
If this was my only option because I was gluten-free, I would be slightly disappointed, but it’s definitely not bad.
This was so sugary I could only take a few bites.
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Again, this is more of a personal preference, but I don’t love a snickerdoodle. I find that the cinnamon sugar is way too sweet for me, and I also don’t love white chocolate.
However, since I only took a few bites, I was able to appreciate the cookie for what it was. It was on the crumblier side, which was different from the rest of the offerings.
My favorite part was the cinnamon streusel crunch on top.
Without the buttercream frosting, this would’ve been an A-plus.
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I think my first bite of Kendall’s cookie gave me an instant cavity.
OK, not really, but it was so sweet. Too sweet. Sweet enough that I had to scrape the frosting off the top in order to enjoy the rest of the cookie.
And I’m glad I did because, without the frosting, I loved this. It was perfectly moist and had a brown, sugary (almost maple) flavor that I loved. I also really loved the crumbled cookie dough pieces and the “signature Cookie Dough Bit” on top.
However, the frosting was just not necessary.
But my favorite offering was Kris’ Classic Yellow Layer Cake.
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Somewhat surprisingly, my favorite Crumbl cookie wasn’t a cookie at all — it was a cake.
Kris’ Classic Yellow Layer Cake is two layers of “fluffy yellow cake swirled with a decadent fudge frosting” and covered in a “smooth chocolate glaze and finished with delicate chocolate curls.”
It has 910 calories and costs an extra 99 cents.
This was the only item I willingly ate more than a few bites of.
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After eating this, I need to tell Kris that she’s doing amazing, sweetie.
This was delicious! The cake was not dry at all, and the chocolate curls on top gave it a little bit of a crunch. Plus, the fudge frosting wasn’t as sweet as the buttercream frosting on the other cookies.
I may be biased because I love yellow cake, but as someone who cannot replicate my favorite cake of all time — Entenmann’s Fudge Iced Golden Cake — I know it’s difficult to make a cake that’s not too dry or crumbly, but not too dense either.
I can’t recommend getting the six-pack, but picking your one favorite and nibbling away at it is the way to go.
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To recap, my ranking is:
- Kris’ Classic Yellow Layer Cake.
- Kylie’s Pink Confetti Sugar Cookie
- Khloé’s Cookies & Cream Skillet Cookie
- Kendall’s Cookie Dough Cupcake Cookie
- Kim’s Snickerdoodle Crumb Cake Cookie
- Kourtney’s Flourless Chocolate Cake
Will I run to Crumbl again before the week ends to get a second shot at any of these cookies? I don’t think so. Almost all of the cookies were sweet enough that I’ll be swearing off sugar for a few days at least.
But I will be monitoring the company’s socials so I know when another yellow cake will be on the menu.