Costco has carried a variety of different flavors of their mini cakes such as carrot, pineapple coconut and raspberry. Now they’ve released these Kirkland Signature Cinnamon Roll Mini Cakes for fall and I think this might be the best flavor yet!
Location in Store
You can find these in the bakery section at Costco and the item number is 1817925.
Taste
The cake is sweet with a nice but somewhat mild cinnamon flavor. For some reason, it reminded me a bit of carrot cake. I thought it was interesting that the cake actually has cocoa listed as an ingredient ahead of cinnamon. I couldn’t taste the cocoa in the cake.
The ingredients list shows ingredients for an oat streusel, but I don’t know where it’s used in the mini cakes. My mini cakes were topped with chocolate shavings, so I’m wondering if this was an error.
The icing is pretty sweet, but still has a good cream cheese flavor that goes really well with the cake portion. The flavor of the icing also helps make the mini cakes seem similar to a carrot cake.
I couldn’t really taste the chocolate shavings on the mini cakes unless I really tried, but I think the dusting of cinnamon on top helped enhance the cinnamon flavor.
These are easily the best mini cake flavor Costco has made so far. If you love cinnamon desserts and carrot cake like I do, you’ll love them. If you’re looking for a regular sized cake, I highly suggest the tuxedo cake or the biscoff cream cake.
Cost
Six large cinnamon roll mini cakes cost $13.99 Canadian which isn’t really all that expensive considering how large the cakes are, they don’t seem very mini to me!
Convenience
The best before date is five days from when I purchased them and the mini cakes come packaged in a plastic resealable container. If you’re not going to eat them before they expire you can easily freeze them and they thaw well.
These work well for breakfast, a snack or dessert, they do have a lot of icing so if you’re not big into icing you can always scoop some off.
Nutrition
Calories
One third of a mini cake contains 330 calories, 16 grams of fat, 45 grams of carbohydrates, 31 grams of sugar, three grams of protein and 240 milligrams of sodium.
Ingredients
The ingredients list is pretty typical for store-bought cake or muffins with artificial flavor, vegetable oil and food additives like calcium sulphate, The mini cakes contain milk, egg, wheat and oats and may contain tree nuts, peanut, soy, sesame, barley, rye, triticale and mustard.
Scoring
Taste: 8.5/10
Cost: 7/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 0/10
Overall
Give it a try!
I really enjoyed the cinnamon roll mini cakes, my second favorite flavor of mini cakes is for sure the carrot mini cakes.
FAQ
Great! The cake has a mild cinnamon flavor and the icing has cream cheese in it. They actually reminded me a bit of carrot cake.
$13.99 Canadian for six cakes.
990 calories in one full mini cake.
Have you tried the Kirkland Signature Cinnamon Roll Mini Cakes? What did you think of them? Drop a comment below!
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