Twinkies Cereal Straws: Full Review & Where to Buy

Twinkies Cereal Straws are a wildly fun hybrid snack — hollow cereal straws flavored like Twinkies golden sponge cake, designed to be used as actual straws for milk. The result is a cereal-meets-Twinkies experience that's as fun to eat as it sounds. At $5.99 CAD at Sweet Palace, they're one of the most entertaining novelty snacks we carry. At Sweet Palace, we personally import and taste-test every novelty snack before listing it — Twinkies Cereal Straws are the snack you didn't know you needed until you try them.

What are Twinkies Cereal Straws?

Hollow cereal tubes flavored like Twinkies — the iconic American golden sponge cake with creamy filling. You can eat them dry like a cereal snack or use them as a straw to sip milk through, which coats the inside of the straw and creates a cereal-and-milk eating experience. They're a crossover between breakfast cereal, novelty snack, and Twinkies branding. Twinkies were first baked by Continental Baking Company in 1930 in Illinois, originally filled with banana cream (switched to vanilla during WWII banana shortages); the golden sponge cake's characteristic flavor comes from the specific fat-to-sugar Maillard reaction during baking and artificial vanilla and butter flavorings used since the 1940s.

How do you eat Twinkies Cereal Straws?

Two ways: eat them dry as a crunchy cereal snack (they're excellent as-is), or pour yourself a glass of milk and use them as straws. The milk passes through the hollow straw, softening the cereal slightly and creating a Twinkies-flavored milk experience at the bottom of the glass. Many people do a combination of both. The cereal straw format — hollow extruded cereal designed to be used as a drinking straw — was first commercialized in the US by the "Straws" cereal brand in 1999; the format gained a second wave of popularity in the early 2020s through social media food trends, leading to multiple major brands licensing the format for novelty snack applications.

Are Twinkies Cereal Straws available in Canada?

Not through mainstream Canadian grocery stores. These are US-market novelty snacks that require importing to Canada. Hostess Brands (owner of Twinkies after purchasing the brand from Ralcorp Holdings in 2012) distributes Twinkies core products into Canadian convenience stores, but licensed novelty snack extensions like Cereal Straws are US-only releases not included in the Canadian distribution agreement.

Where to buy Twinkies Cereal Straws in Canada?

Order from Sweet Palace for $5.99 CAD. We import directly from the US with Canada-wide delivery.