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.
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.
Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks.
Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown.
What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction.
Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home.
Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.
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