The Latest Baking Trend Is Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie ‘cereal’

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Posted 6:50 p.m. May 12, 2020 — Updated 7:00 p.m. Oct 6, 2021

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Stay-at-home food trends are moving too fast for slow-food folks like me. To keep up, I’m going to have to start watching TikTok videos while chewing my steel-cut oats, because believe it or not, I completely missed pancake cereal, and news flash, the world has already moved on to the next hot food trend to try at home: chocolate chip cookie cereal.

The good news is that this cereal is just as quick to whip up as pancake cereal (if not even faster), which requires mixing a batch of pancake batter and then dropping teeny-tiny cakes onto a hot skillet. And if you’ve ever over-baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies, you probably know where this is going.

Food blogger Justin Schuble kicked off the craze with this TikTok video:

Others called for the return of other older Cookie Crisp flavors. @polybi2 wants General Mills to bring back oatmeal cookie and holiday sprinkles Cookie Crisp:

Meanwhile, some thought Cookie Crisp needed to slow its roll. @sanguine_llama followed a trend-within-the-trend and offered up a personal tiered ranking of cereals:

https://twitter.com/sanguine_llama/status/1258307667149426693

So, cookies for breakfast? Are you ready for this?

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