Trader Joe’s, do you test drive these frozen foods?

Last updated on March 7, 2023

Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Souffles Review

I don’t know if Trader Joe’s truly understands their market. For instance, their Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Souffles. Wha? How many of the youngun’s even know what a souffle is!?

You have to cook these frozen delicasies. Not on a cookie sheet, in muffin tins. First off, I couldn’t find my muffin tins, even though I have two. (Neither of them is Teflon, which, btw, is lethal for birds, so what is it doing to humans??)

So I just put the frozen pastries on a cookie tin and they collapsed all over the place! Ug-ly. And it tasted like pumpkin pudding, not very good; I ended up throwing them out.

But I had bought 2 boxes, because they were like .89 on sale! And it does say, drop into a muffin tin, so I shouldn’t be too mad… So I tried baking them again, this time in the muffin tin.

The problem with souffles

When I baked the second batch,  I decided I just didn’t like the texture of these. It felt weird in my mouth. (That’s the other thing about souffles: most people rarely eat them, so it’s hard to know what to expect!) This was unfortunate, for me personally, because pumpkin is my favorite flavor next to chocolate.

I just recently discovered this blog about Trader Joe’s, and they also reviewed these pumpkin souffles. And this writer had to look up the word souffle in the dictionary, so what does that say about food writers today? 🙂

He goes on to write several paragraphs trying to define a souffle, so I guess he didn’t like the original definition. Then he starts writing about pumpkin ice cream. Hmm. But in the end, he didn’t like them, either.

NOTE TO TRADER JOE’S: No one has muffin tins except baking-type people, and no one except east coast types or people who took French have much interest in them. (That being said, I took French! My friend Barbara and I made a real cheese souffle at age 12, all excited about something so exotic. It was…interesting. Her famiy laughed at us.)

Bonus Photo: Trader Joe’s Carrot Souffle! Because I can guarantee yuo, I will never ever try this.