For a pastry this delicious, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
Crumbl Cookies debuted a holiday peppermint brownie that is great for the taste buds but bad for the waistline, gobsmacking viewers with its egregiously high calorie count.
The limited edition “Candy Cane Brownie” — a chocolate treat smothered in peppermint buttercream and topped with ganache and candy cane bits — rings in at just over 1,200 calories, which foodies have claimed is the company’s “highest calorie item yet.”
According to the nutritional information, each “serving” — as if someone isn’t eating the entire dessert — is only 180 calories, meaning there are more than six servings per brownie, which was created in partnership with late show host Jimmy Fallon.
Despite the “Tonight Show” celeb declaring it the “best brownie” he’s ever had, some TikTokkers weren’t convinced the decadent dessert was worth the inches on the waistline.
“Tell me who in their right mind — and especially an American — is gonna be eating this in six sittings,” one content creator snarked. “That is not realistic at all.”
He claimed that, although the dessert is likely tasty, it’s probably not “worth the calories.”
“Nobody needs that many calories,” scoffed another creator named Charlie Caruso, adding that it’s “no wonder the US has such a high obesity rate.”
The entire brownie also contains 121 grams of sugar and 101 grams of added sugar, which is 202% of the average daily intake. Similarly, there are 40 grams of saturated fat — also 202% of the daily recommended intake.
For reference, the average daily sugar consumption should be less than 10% of the daily calories consumed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a 2,000-calorie diet, then, that equates to approximately 12 teaspoons of added sugar.
Adults should consume anywhere from 1,600 to 3,000 calories total per day, depending on their nutritional needs. The Crumbl brownie, then, can be almost all of someone’s daily caloric intake.
“You can have 3-4 meals with that amount of calories,” one TikTok commenter wrote.
“The fact that this is legal is crazy,” another gobsmacked user added.
“I truly don’t comprehend how something can be that calorie dense,” someone else said.
“Imagine not knowing that and eating 5 of them,” quipped one person.
Crumbl has long been criticized for the nutrition of its products, which people have previously called “diabetes in a box.”
“Without clear labeling, consumers may underestimate the caloric and nutritional content, which is particularly concerning with oversized portions like those Crumbl offers,” Northeastern professor Dr. Darin Detwiler recently told the Daily Mail.
“If these cookies were firearms, they would be illegal.”
