The lead-up to the release of Pepsi Vanilla & Cream, its 2026 holiday flavor, has been a long one. We were first talking about it way back in April, when news leaked of its upcoming release – and buzz continued right through to the end of summer and the start of fall, when further details arrived about the then-upcoming drink. When it finally dropped last month, we got our hands on it…and it turned out that it was worth waiting for. Pepsi Vanilla & Cream is good. It may not change the world…but it’s good.
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So, there’s cause for Pepsi to celebrate. And it’s doing that with a limited-time holiday bundle, in honor of Vanilla & Cream’s release, which will be a must for collectors.
Walmart x Pepsi Vanilla & Cream Holiday Kit
Pepsi has teamed up with Walmart for an upcoming holiday drop that’s part a quirky vehicle for its new drink, part merch (in the loosest sense), and part…baking ingredients. Yep. This one’s a little left-field. The Pepsi Vanilla & Cream Holiday Kit is a bundle that leans into both the festive vibe of the drink and its cookie-adjacent flavors. In each bundle, you get twelve cans of Pepsi Vanilla & Cream (six full-sugar and six zero-sugar), and a box that contains Great Value Sugar Cookie Mix, Great Value Icing, two Snowflake Cookie Cutters, and a Pepsi Vanilla & Cream-branded timer. All of it comes enclosed in a display box fashioned to look like an oven.
Now, doesn’t that all sound cute? The idea here, of course, is twofold: You can enjoy the drink while you bake cookies, and you can bake cookies that sort of taste like the drink. You might just need to provide the vanilla extract yourself to bring it all together.
How Do I Get My Hands On It?
This holiday kit is (unsurprisingly) a Walmart exclusive, and it’ll be available online at the store’s website on November 19. It’s only available while stocks last, and it will cost $20 each.
To be totally frank, I feel like Walmart could have probably gotten away with charging a little more than that – not that I’d approve of it doing so, of course; I merely mention it because it’s nice to see that people won’t be price-gouged here. A lot of the time, retailers take advantage of limited-edition statuses to bump up the cost, but this feels pretty reasonable, all things considered.
I also think it’d make a cute little gift for the Pepsi lovers in your life. What better way to round out the holiday season than with soda and cookies, I ask? Set your alarm for November 19, and tick one of those presents off your list.
Thoughts? Questions? Complete disagreement? Leave a comment!