I tried 32 flavors of Crumbl cookies and ranked them from worst to best
September 6, 20240
The cake part of the French-toast cookie was excellent.
Ted Berg
Crumbl’s French-toast cookie grew on me. At first, I found it frustrating that the frosting was concentrated in the cookie’s center, presumably making it look like French toast with a big dollop of butter.
However, I realized it was the frosting that was throwing me off. I found it to be a little dry and super sweet with a maple flavor. In fact, it gave the cloying effect of maple candy.
The cake part of the cookie, meanwhile, was excellent. It had a spongy, doughnut-like consistency and a lighter maple flavor.
My 6-year-old was a big fan of Crumbl’s double-fudge sandwich.
Mom’s recipe is another variation of a chocolate-chip cookie.
Ted Berg
Another variation on the traditional chocolate chip cookie, Mom’s recipe is an oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookie with peanut-butter and toffee chips.
It sounds like it might have too much going on, but there weren’t too many of any one chip. It combined a variety of sweet, salty, and comforting flavors without any one flavor overwhelming the others.
The nutty oatmeal texture, appropriately enough, made it feel like something I’d be very excited to buy at an elementary-school bake sale.
The mint-cookies-and-cream cookie tasted like its ice cream counterpart.
The cookie included a melted-peanut-butter drizzle and a peanut-butter core.
Ted Berg
Crumbl’s take on a peanut-butter cookie included a melted-peanut-butter drizzle and a peanut-butter core baked into the center.
I worried that the peanut-butter filling might be overwhelming, but I appreciated that this cookie was a bit less sweet than the others.
The filling also helped keep the whole cookie soft and moist. This was one of the few flavors that all four members of my household really loved.
We really enjoyed the cookies-and-cream cheesecake.
The peanut-butter chips added a nice balance to the chocolate.
Ted Berg
It’s rare that all four members of my family agree on a food, but the peanut-butter-cookies-and-cream flavor was an all-around favorite in my household.
It wasn’t as eye-catching as many of the other options, especially since the bits of chocolate-sandwich cookies got camouflaged against the chocolate base.
However, they were unmistakable once I bit into it, punctuating the soft texture of Crumbl’s chocolate cookie with the crumbly, crunchy texture of an Oreo. The peanut-butter chips were mostly in the background, but they added a nice balance to the chocolate.
I always love a good cookie-flavored cookie.
Despite its strange name, Crumbl’s Patriotic Fruit Pizza was delicious.
The whole family enjoyed this cookie.
Ted Berg
No one in my household is especially familiar with Olivia Rodrigo’s music — our tastes skew toward late-20th-century alt-rock and the “Encanto”soundtrack on repeat. However, we now endorse her taste in cookies.
Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS Cookie is a sandwich of two purple-colored vanilla cookies filled with vanilla buttercream, triple-berry jam, and colorful sprinkles.
The tangy-sweet flavor of the jam, mixed with the mild sweetness of the cookies, gave it the familiar taste of a Linzer tart. Even my 4-year-old, who passionately dislikes jelly, enjoyed this cookie.
The mallow-sandwich flavor was my favorite of the Oreo-inspired cookies.
The pink-velvet cookie was incredibly sweet.
Ted Berg
Crumbl’s pink-velvet cookie earned my top spot with a caveat: I never ate more than a small portion in one sitting. I suspect that eating as much as half of this cookie at once might leave me less enthusiastic about it.
However, I happen to love cream-cheese frosting, and this one had a nice, mild tartness to it that complements the sweet, soft cookie.
I tasted it before reading the flavor description, and the power of suggestion left me thinking it had a strawberry taste.
But eating more of the cookie revealed that the crunchy, sugary crumbles on top were extremely reminiscent of the outer coating of a classic strawberry-shortcake-ice-cream bar. I happen to love those, so this had a nostalgic appeal.
