New treats this spring utilized innovation and collaboration.
Toto Foods is partnering with TBH (To Be Honest) to introduce a double chocolate hazelnut cookie. The offering incorporates TBH (To Be Honest) cocoa hazelnut spread.
Vegan and gluten-free, the cookie is formulated with organic oats, pea protein, flax seeds, coconut sugar, maca and cordyceps. Each cookie has 10 grams of protein and 10 grams of fiber.
Upcycled ingredient and baked foods company Renewal Mill is partnering with Miyoko’s Creamery, a plant-based alternative dairy company, to launch a line of vegan salted peanut butter cookies.
The women-owned companies share a mission to combat climate change through sustainable food innovation.
The cookies are available in individual single packs for $2.99 on the Renewal Mill website.
Kodiak Cakes, subsidiary of private equity firm L Catterton, is launching its newest baked snack product line: Thin and Crispy Cookies.
Made with 100% whole grains and non-GMO ingredients, the cookies are available in chocolate chip, chocolate chip walnut and oatmeal raisin flavors.
Each flavor contains 5 grams of protein per serving.
Baked foods brand Birch Benders, a subsidiary of Sovos Brands, is launching a line of gluten-free and keto-friendly cookies, the company’s first ready-to-eat snack.
The cookies are available in chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, snickerdoodle and vanilla shortbread flavors. All the flavors contain less than five net carbohydrates per serving and are made without added sugars.
Ferrara, a related company of the Ferrero Group, is rolling out four new cookies, including one limited-edition, star-shaped, Celebration Cake-flavored cookie celebrating the Keebler brand’s partnership with the Make-A-Wish foundation.
Keebler also is adding two new products to its Chips Deluxe line, including Double Chocolate M&M’s cookies and Dipped Duos Chocolate Fudge, and expanding its Sandies line with a cranberry and almond variety.
B&G Foods is launching Cinnamon Toast Crunch creamy cinnamon spread, giving consumers a new way to enjoy the flavor of the General Mills cereal.
The spread may be used on bread or fruit, as an ingredient in baked foods, as a dessert topping or eaten with a spoon straight from the jar, according to the company.
The Icee Co., a subsidiary of J&J Snack Foods Corp., is taking its frozen carbonated beverage to the sweet baked foods aisle with the launch of Icee Sandwich Crème Filled Cookies.
The cookies are available exclusively at Kroger stores for a suggested retail price of $3.29.
Bimbo Bakeries USA is bringing back its Entenmann’s Little Bites S’mores muffins for a limited time. The muffins are made with graham flour and milk chocolate.
The Hershey Co. is releasing blueberry muffin flavored Kit Kat bars this spring. The limited-edition flavor features the classic Kit Kat wafers at the center of a blueberry muffin-flavored exterior that has graham cookie pieces folded in.
Available while supplies last, the bars can be purchased online and at retailers nationwide in the standard 1.5-oz Kit Kat bar size, 3-oz king bar size and 0.49-oz snack bar size.
Hostess Brands is introducing mint chocolate as the newest flavor in its Cr!spy Minis product line.
The mint chocolate Cr!spy Minis are composed of bite sized wafers sandwiched around mint crème and topped with a chocolate layer.
Hostess Brands, Inc. is launching bite-sized Bouncers that will come in three cream-filled versions, including Twinkies, Ding Dongs and cinnamon Donettes.
The company hopes to attract consumers with the handheld convenience of Bouncers.
Ready-to-eat baked foods brand Café Valley is adding three new flavors to its line of 16-oz Bundt cakes. The new flavors feature an all-new swirled batter technique and come in triple citrus swirl, chocolate espresso swirl and raspberry white chocolate swirl.
McKee Foods Corp. is expanding its Zebra brand into the donuts category with the debut of Little Debbie Zebra Mini Donuts.
The mini donuts consist of yellow cake donuts covered in vanilla frosting and finished with a wave of fudge stripes. The products are available in a grab-and-go resealable bags at a suggested retail price of $2.19.
Cibo Vita is set to launch BeHonest, a keto-friendly confectionery brand.
The company will first release milk chocolate drops with a colored crunchy exterior and milk chocolate interior. A 1-oz serving contains 100 calories, with 6 grams of fat, 5 grams of net carbs and 5 grams of fiber.
Cocomels, a brand of Madhava, Ltd., is adding chocolate covered sea salt and crispy bites to its coconut milk caramel line.
The new flavors contain less than 1 gram of sugar. Cocomels is known for its confectioneries that are dairy-free, gluten-free, keto friendly and made using non-GMO ingredients. The caramels and their 60% dark chocolate coatings are sweetened using allulose, a sugar alternative sweetener, and the crispy bites contain crisped quinoa to provide texture.
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