More treats are coming your way, as seen on Santa’s sleigh! 🤩 Looks like you’ve been nice this year, and as a reward for that, your favorite chains are bringing back your favorite menu items that have long been gone from the menu. Not only that but there will also be new sweet treat releases up for grabs, so make sure that you leave room for dessert.
Crumbl and Olive Garden will leave no crumbs behind with their new menu items that are sure to satisfy you at the most wonderful time of the year. Let’s take a look at their comeback menu items, along with a couple of new releases to make our holidays sweeter. 😋
Crumbl
Who here misses a Crumbl flavor? While they continue to release new cookie flavors and pastries weekly, there are flavors that we fell in love with. It’s a good thing that every week, there is a possibility for the comeback of your favorite flavor, so if they’re under the December 10 to 15, 2024 window, then you’re in luck! Here are the flavors baking at Crumbl stores this week, along with two new desserts. Let’s check them out!
Brookie Pie
Crumbl took their Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip Cookie for a twist as they added a house-made brownie center. It has a scoop of fresh vanilla mousse on top, and it’s drizzled with semi-sweet chocolate. Note that there’s an extra $.99 upcharge for this treat.
Eggnog Tres Leches Cake
What’s Christmas without an eggnog drink, right? Crumbl is taking this popular holiday comfort for a spin and turning it into a cake. It features a light and fluffy vanilla cake base soaked in eggnog and tres leches sauce. It is topped with whipped cream and sprinkled with a layer of cinnamon dust. Like the Brookie Pie, Crumbl will also charge an extra $.99 for this.
Peanut Butter Cup ft. Reese’s (New)
Crumbl is once again collaborating with peanut butter lover’s chocolate brand Reese’s to star in their cookie. It has a classic peanut butter cookie base topped with a pool of melted peanut butter chips. It also features sprinkles of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to finish off the cookie.
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk
If the Brookie Pie is too much, you can always have this classic cookie. There’s a reason why Crumbl always puts as much classic flavor in their weekly lineup as possible! 😉 It’s just your typical chocolate chip cookie made chunkier. It is filled with semi-sweet chocolate chunks and a sprinkle of sea salt to balance the sweetness and saltiness of the treat.
Cookies & Cream
If you can’t get enough of more cookies, then have more with Crumbl’s Cookies & Cream. Imagine eating a cookie-flavored cookie! It features a marbled dark chocolate and vanilla cookie with white chip drops and a white drizzle. It has encrusted crushed cookie pieces plus cream that you can taste in every bite of the cookie.
Cinnamon Crunch (New)
Still, feel the fall vibes even in the upcoming winter? Crumbl’s new Cinnamon Crunch is giving you all that with their exciting collaboration with cereal brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It features a warm cinnamon cookie that is topped with vanilla cream cheese glaze and cinnamon cereal streusel, plus a dusting of cinnamon sugar.
Raspberry Butter Cake Cookie
Care for some butter cookie cake? Crumbl will be serving them up for this week’s lineup! It features a cake cookie base that is topped with raspberry flavor and smothered in a buttery glaze. It has a silk raspberry topping and a dollop of cream white buttercream.
Cowboy Cookie
Oatmeal cookie lovers, it’s your time to shine! It’s been a while since Crumbl last released an oatmeal cookie, and this week, they’re bringing them once again up for grabs. It features a warm oatmeal cookie base with semi-sweet chocolate drops. For extra crunch, it has some shredded coconut and crunchy toasted pecan pieces.
What flavor or pastry are you looking forward to the most? Aside from the cookies of the week, the following treats are also up for grabs every day at Crumbl locations:
- Mini Cookies
- Family-Sized Confetti Cakes
- Cookie Dough Bits
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Olive Garden
The holidays may be meant for sweets, treats, and feasts, but for Olive Garden it’s bringing back menu items from the past. 2024 marks the year of huge fast food comebacks, just like Taco Bell reviving five menu items from the past called Decades. Get this: they are bringing back menu items from the summer of ‘69! Olive Garden is following this trend by bringing back two of their favorite pasta dishes: Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo and Stuffed Chicken Marsala.
Olive Garden revealed this after they posted videos on social media about the availability of these fan-favorite pasta dishes. It shows a retro television that is similar to VHS tapes. They were actually pulled out by Olive Garden during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it hasn’t seen the light of day since then. After numerous petitions to bring back the plates of pasta, Olive Garden thankfully responded by bringing them back. Fans can now get these pastas at Olive Green locations nationwide.
But wait, why are these pasta dishes well-loved? The Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo features a grilled sirloin steak on top of the creamy fettuccine alfredo that is blended with blue cheese and spinach. The pasta is topped with sun-dried tomatoes and a drizzle of balsamic.
On the other hand, the Stuffed Chicken Marsala features a grilled chicken breast stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes and Italian cheese. It is topped with a creamy marsala sauce It is served together with mashed potatoes. Both dishes come with Olive Garden’s popular Never Ending bread, which has been a staple of their restaurant.
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From The Club
These releases have got me excited! First off, I’ve got to say that this week’s Crumbl lineup is one of the best I’ve ever seen. I’m excited to try the Brookie Pie, Peanut Butter Cup, and Cowboy Cookie. These were actually the flavors that stole my heart! As for Olive Garden, it’s my first time hearing of the Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo and Stuffed Chicken Marsala, but I’ll probably love it since their base is a white sauce pasta. So far, all of the holiday releases sound good.