If you ever bought Chocolate Lucky Charms and thought they could use more chocolatey flavor, I have pretty awesome news for you. General Mills just released Chocolatey Chocolate Lucky Charms. The difference? In addition to chocolate cereal morsels, Chocolatey Chocolate Lucky Charms contain chocolate-flavored marshmallows in star and moon shapes. Do chocolate marshmallows taste good? Can new Chocolate Lucky Charms compete with the best chocolate cereals on the market? We tasted them to find out.

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Okay, so we established how Chocolatey Chocolate Lucky Charms differ from Chocolate Lucky Charms, but they’re different from regular Lucky Charms, too. That’s because the cereal morsels are made from corn rather than oat. Why? Couldn’t tell you! But most chocolate cereal does seem to be corn- or rice-based, so we’ll just assume the mad geniuses at General Mills have their reasons. (My suspicion? Oats have a strong, toasty flavor profile that might interfere with or dampen the flavor of chocolate while corn is more neutral—just a guess!) 

Pros: This is a damn good chocolate cereal. The chocolate cereal morsels are great—crispy, light, and neutral with a pleasant cocoa flavor—but the chocolate marshmallows are a stroke of genius. They taste exactly like hot chocolate with marshmallows in it. And there’s a lot of them! They add the perfect amount of sweetness and lots of cocoa flavor. Oh, and if you were concerned this cereal would be too sad and brown looking, don’t worry—there are some standard, brightly colored Lucky Charms marshmallows in the mix, too. 

Cons: The milk didn’t get as chocolatey as I wanted it to be while I was actively eating a bowl of Chocolatey Chocolate Lucky Charms, but goddamn that milk got good and chocolatey after the dregs of my cereal sat for a while. I don’t know about you, but when I eat chocolate cereal, I always use less milk than I normally would to maximize the chocolatey flavor of the leftover milk—that’s definitely a good strategy here, too.

Rating:

9/10

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