Tastykake Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes - 8oz/6ct
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The recent reviews of the peanut butter kandy kakes reveal a significant decline in quality and taste compared to their original formulation. Guests express disappointment over the smaller size, altered chocolate coating, and reduced peanut butter flavor. Many long-time fans are nostalgic for the past and are unhappy with the changes, leading to a loss of trust in the product. Despite some positive remarks about the taste, the overall sentiment leans towards dissatisfaction.
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3.7 out of 5 stars with 121 reviews
quality: 4.2 out of 5
taste: 4 out of 5
value: 4.2 out of 5
80% would recommend
5 recommendations
5 out of 5 stars
20 October, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
LOOOOVE ❤️
These are amazing. All negative reviews are BOTS. Leave kandy kake alone. She is the Queen of snacks.
2 out of 5 stars
12 October, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
What the heck happened-TINY Kandy Kakes
As a NEPA native, I grew up on Tastykakes (I'm a chocolate cupcake and kandy kakes gal). I now live in CA and my sister will send me my favorite treats. I just opened a Kandy Kake and my first thought was what the heck happened? They are SO tiny! I know things aren't how they used to be, but I have to agree with another poster who said keep the size and just increase the price. This is beyond sad, I will ask her to not waste her money anymore. I hope you're reading these comments, your changes are noticed and it's NOT for the better.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 6 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
1 out of 5 stars
27 August, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
Terrible…
These used to be a top tier dessert! I bought one of these today. About half the thickness as they used to be, the chocolate was all soft, dry and messy. No “pattern” on the bottom of the cakes. Definitely a far cry from what these used to be. Will not be purchasing this cheap replica ever again.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 7 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
1 out of 5 stars
9 August, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
Why Did You Make a Excellent Thing Gross!
Whoever or whatever made you change from the original Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes, has really messed up. They are causing you to lose money. Everyone is talking about how awful this new taste is. PLEASE PLEASE GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL RECIPE!!!!! I wouldn't recommend this to anyone now that the taste is different.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 8 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
1 out of 5 stars
6 August, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
Disappointed
I cannot believe I bought a box of tasty cake. Peanut butter dark chocolate, cupcakes.They are so small, they don't even taste like cake.They're awful it's like eating baby peppermint patties. They're so little.I am very unhappy with this company I will never buy their products again they were not cheap either!!!
1 reply from Tastykake team - 8 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
1 out of 5 stars
15 July, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
Tastykake Peanut butter
I bought 2 boxes of these yesterday. After 65 years of eating my favorite snack, they were such a disappointment. If I wanted a cookie I would have waited and bought the girl scout cookie. It's a better cookie.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 9 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
5 out of 5 stars
12 July, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
A preferred treat since the 50's
A fondly remembered treat since childhood that is moderate in size and (like Reese's) best when frozen.
2 out of 5 stars
10 July, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
What happened to Kandy Kakes?
Having moved to California and not eaten a Kandy Cake for many years, I was excited when my daughter brought me some from Philly. Unfortunately they simply don’t taste as good as they used to. The chocolate appears much too sweet and less chocolatey. There is less peanut butter, and the cake has a different consistency and flavor than it used to. I don’t think the box used to say “chocolate, flavored coating,” but they do now. Maybe they’re not using real chocolate.Most disappointed. I think the recipe must’ve changed. If you are reading this, tasty cake, and you have changed the recipe, please change it back!
1 reply from Tastykake team - 9 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
5 out of 5 stars
11 June, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
Just like when I was a kid.
Love love these.
2 out of 5 stars
18 May, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
A shell of it's former self
Like many, this was my favorite quick dessert. Also loved the chocolate ones but both suffer from the same problems. 1. The cake is always stale now 2. They only cover part of the top with the peanut butter or cream 3. They don't even fully coat them anymore. You can see the cake on the bottom through the thinnest layer that doesn't even always cover the entire bottom. 4. Overall taste of the chocolate has changed to a fake tasting flavor.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 11 months ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
4 out of 5 stars
13 January, 2025
originally posted on tastykake
They're Back
I got a pack of PB KandyKakes for Christmas. Yes,so... They were great,about like they were before Tasty Baking moved,etc., but a little smaller.The "chocolate flavored coating" is better than it had been for a while and the cake was moist. Things got too dry for a while,so I stopped buying them. Much improved. The coating needs a tweak to get back to the glory days.FWIW, I ate them right out of the fridge, THE ONLY WAY from now on.
2 out of 5 stars
8 September, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
What happened
I am guessing due to high costs, the company decided to make these smaller. Also, there is less chocolate on top. Not the same as years ago
1 reply from Tastykake team - 2 years ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
4 out of 5 stars
30 July, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
Taste Different But Overall Still Decent
I've always been a huge fan of Tastykake Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes but, in my opinion, they taste slightly and palpably different than they tasted to me back in the 70s and 80s. The sponge cake to me has a very light textured taste, whereas years ago it tasted a little heavier and even sweeter. The chocolate that enrobed the Peanut Butter Kakes was neater looking back in the 70s and 80s too--like it was a perfect mold. Now it looks like it was dipped in chocolate by hand. I've noticed too that the chocolate underneath the Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes does not cover the entire cake--it almost looks like the chocolate melted, but they can't all be melted; they even appear that way in the cooler months. As with everything, prices have gone up for basic ingredients since the pandemic struck 4 years ago, but the quality of these Kakes is still decent. They're just not as "tasty" as I remember them back in my heyday of the 70s and 80s.
2 out of 5 stars
17 June, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
the downfall of a once incredible product
I am 77 years old and have been eating Tastykake Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes since I was 11 years old. It was my most favorite snack. I still eat them even though they have become difficult due to the chocolate coating becoming vary soft and sticky for about the past year. When opening the cellophane pack and sliding them out the chocolate sticks to the package. I thought maybe if I put them in the refrigerator it would not happen but to my surprise it still stuck to the package and was soft enough to stick to my hands. It seems very strange this problem has not been noticed and corrected when it has been happening for at least a year on every purchase I have made.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 2 years ago
we’re sorry about your recent experience with our product. We take quality seriously and would like to learn more. Please fill out this form https://www.tastykake.com/new-index-2, so one of the members of our internal team can reach out to you directly. We want to make this right.
1 out of 5 stars
17 May, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
Not the same chocolate coating is changed
They messed with the chocolate coating. It's not the same. It's weak. Less chocolate. Sad very sad. Thanks biden.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 2 years ago
Thank you so much for reaching out. We love what we do and are committed to staying as close to those very first Tastykake treats in taste, quality, and spirit as we can! We appreciate you sharing your opinion with us.
5 out of 5 stars
17 April, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
Reminds me of my childhood
Delicious!
1 out of 5 stars
5 April, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
Changed recipe
The ones I've purchased over the last month or so are terrible. The peanut butter layer is not the same and I hate it. It's as if someone put a huge wet blob of regular peanut butter straight from a jar on top. I know it sounds weird, but I don't particularly care for peanut butter. I do eat things that have peanut butter that remind me of my childhood and these have always been included, but since they changed the peanut butter that no longer applies. They just don't taste the same anymore.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 2 years ago
Thank you so much for reaching out. We love what we do and are committed to staying as close to those very first Tastykake treats in taste, quality, and spirit as we can! We appreciate you sharing your opinion with us.
1 out of 5 stars
20 March, 2024
originally posted on tastykake
Timeless taste is gone
Have been buying Tandy Takes for decades. Loved them. Just bought 2 boxes, and had to throw them out as I literally gagged on the product. Let’s not talk about the massive change in size, just the ingredients. It’s now “chocolate coating”…and bad coating at that. Grainy, super sweet, so artificial tasting. Even the peanut butter tastes different, and not in a good way. I am actually saddened and so disappointed that a lifelong (I am 78) treat has been so modified, obviously in cost crunching moves. The change is NOT subtle…and certainly NOT good. Will never buy these again or any TastyKake product as I suspect they have changed all their products in a negative tasting way.
1 reply from Tastykake team - 2 years ago
Thank you so much for reaching out. We love what we do and are committed to staying as close to those very first Tastykake treats in taste, quality, and spirit as we can! We appreciate you sharing your opinion with us.
1 out of 5 stars
Thumbs down graphic, would not recommend
20 February, 2024
Gutter trash
They decided to replace the chocolate coating with "chocolate covered coating" and it tastes terrible. It was a good snack while it lasted. RIP
1 reply from Tastykake team team - 2 years ago
Thank you so much for reaching out. We love what we do and are committed to staying as close to those very first Tastykake treats in taste, quality, and spirit as we can! We appreciate you sharing your opinion with us.
1 out of 5 stars
17 December, 2023
originally posted on tastykake
Need a magnifying glass and lots of water
Tandykakes were mom's favourite. Feeling nostalgic around the holidays, I thought I'd get a box. What a disappointment. They are soooooo small. Maybe the size of an Oreo (although maybe they're smaller too now). And DRY. They used to be dense but with enough moisture that almost made them like biting a fresh piece of Wonder bread. It's the first box I've bought in the 6 years since her passing and I won't be buying them again. No memories flowed from eating these disks of shame. Your shrinkflation and ingredient corner-cutting has really diminished the quality. Which will eventually hit your bottom line.