Mother's Cookies Update After Kellogg's Purchase
Photograph from turkeychik on Flickr
Many of you have been asking about the future of Mother's cookies, so we contacted Kellogg's with your questions. In our inbox from a Kellogg's spokesperson today:
Kellogg Company plans on reintroducing many of Mother's Cookies back into stores on the West coast by June, 2009. While we may not have all varieties of Mother's Cookies available at that time, we are working on some of your favorites like Mother's Circus Animals, Mother's Iced Oatmeal cookies, Mother's Parade Animal cookies, Mother's Chocolate Chip, Mother's Coconut Cocadas, Mother's Macaroons, Mother's Taffy Sandwich cookies, Mother's English Tea cookies, Mother's Double Fudge Sandwich cookies, Mother's Vanilla Crème Sandwich cookies, and Mother's Iced Lemon cookies.
Whew!
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25 Comments:
What a relief...though I'm keeping that last bag of Circus Animals just in case. :-)
tangentrider at 6:03PM on 01/20/09
please don't change the recipe....please don't change the recipe....please don't change the recipe!
tienh5 at 6:17PM on 01/20/09
West coast? What about the South? We Texans need our iced cookies!
gammypie at 9:39PM on 01/20/09
It's the iced lemons i miss the most; such perfect timing to have them back with my [lightly spiked] iced tea!
sallyforth at 2:46AM on 01/21/09
I just ate the last handful of horded Circus Animals a couple nights ago. Glad to know they'll be back by the time my arteries un-harden. :)
anitaepler at 9:42AM on 01/21/09
I had no idea they were even off the shelf.
Muhlyssa at 11:31AM on 01/21/09
I hope the Peanut Butter Gauchos will be coming back too!!!!!
tekna at 11:32AM on 01/21/09
I miss Flaky Flix! They'd just come back into production before the bankruptcy, so I didn't have a chance to stock up.
jmoilanen at 12:19PM on 01/22/09
Oh how I miss those little pink & white treats! Let's just hope they don't alter the recipe. They were perfect.
laurawhiteuhlir at 4:05PM on 01/23/09
This is the best news! All of my favorites are coming back. I will have to ration my stash until June!!
tccl27 at 10:39PM on 02/03/09
Thank goodness! I need their English Tea cookies. We've been settling for the Famous Amos and Oreo "Golden" sandwich creams, but they're just not the same. My grandmother used to call the English Tea cookies "vomit cookies," because they don't seem very filling, so you just keep eating them all day long, until you vomit.
thenestor at 3:53PM on 03/20/09
They have a multi cookie small pack on the shelf already, like you'd use for kids lunches. It has frosted circus animals in it, which are pink and white and have sprinkles.... they taste NASTY!
I hope this is just a test run and when the big bags come out it'll be better.
jeran at 6:26PM on 04/29/09
Double Fudge, please, please...
aolmsted at 7:37PM on 04/30/09
O No what about Mother's Sugar Cookies!
MaMoo4 at 8:26PM on 05/05/09
Don't bother!! I just bought and tried (5 minutes ago) my favorite Mothers
"Taffy Cookies" and my second favorite " Circus Animal Cookies", they aren't even CLOSE to the real Mothers Cookies. How sad, except that I hate Kelloggs, and now don't have to worry about buying Mothers from them. The cookies aren't terrible, just not as good as before!
Radley at 7:38PM on 05/14/09
Oh come on...they're fine. They aren't the same thing, but they're close.
I have found them at local Safeway stores in San Francisco, but their store displays SUCK. In fact, the local store Andronicos had every single one of the products available and well-stocked before Safeway did.
Safeway's selling these for $3 while Andronicos seems to average around $4.50.
My point is simple...the Mother's Cookies we all know and love is gone. Get over it. Kellogg's has come VERY close...and they're still around.
God Bless Iced Oatmeal. :-d
AceKiller at 1:04AM on 05/15/09
"Come on they're fine" is what my mother used to tell me back in 1968 when I wanted only Levi's and she insisted on shopping Penney's for jeans!
(Our Penneys didn't carry Levi's then)
You can have all of mine!
Radley at 5:34PM on 05/15/09
Well, I just bought a bag of the Circus Animals and they're not the same. They're actually pretty damned close, though, and if I hadn't just eaten a bag a few months ago, I might be hard-pressed to tell the difference. I actually think they're better, though: Less-waxy icing, and a slightly more-vanilla cookie taste. And zero trans fats. (Still loaded with HFCS, though... not that you were expecting health food.)
anitaepler at 6:16PM on 05/19/09
We bought the Circus Animals and the Taffy cookies at Save-Mart. Considering we had zero, these were real close. I had purchased all I could find when they went bankrupt and while the animals are not quite right, the Taffy passed muster. My husband is still mourning the loss of the Gaucho's though. Maybe the cookies need the Bay Area air and Michigan just doesn't cut it for the exact taste.
serious eater 5 at 11:51AM on 05/22/09
I am so glad to see Mothers Cookies again!!! They are the best! I hope they will bring back the original Flaky Flix and the shortbread Chocolate Chip cookies!
saturnluvr at 11:28PM on 06/03/09
I was so happy to see them back. I love the vanilla cream and english teas. I tried other cookies, but nothing even came close. They were on display in the checkout line, I purchased 3 pkgs. The taste is a little different, but still just great. Thank you Kellogg
geri at 12:28AM on 06/09/09
I used to deliver railcars to Mothers Cookies, flour and corn oil I think, in Oakland in the early 90's and about once a week my conductor would come back to the engine with a box of Circus cookies which I would eat until I was sick. Got all excited when I went into a store the other day and saw my precious Circus Cookies!!!! I have a reason to live! Oh and did I mention the Iced Oatmeals?
Beowawe at 12:07AM on 06/15/09
I'm hoping for the return of Flaky Flix, Choc. Chip Angel, and those heavenly peanut butter Gouchos
flaky fan at 11:48PM on 06/15/09
Dang!!! Kellogg is taking over the cookie industry!!! Wish they would do it right though. Gaucho's are better then Nutter Butter by Nabisco. Recipes can be duplicated... if the ingredients are the same i.e. flour, sugar, butter, whole mike. But when you start cutting corners by using HFCS, margarine and such to make it...Safe and better for you.. LOL. Cookies are desserts not health food. The name Mother's Cookies instilled home made goodness and taste not artifical stuff. My Mother used the basics. We did not have margarine or High Fructose Corn Syrup. Back to basics, please.
qcisfirst at 7:01PM on 07/03/09
I really hope Mother's Butter Cookies make the reissue. I'm down to my last half dozen.
Al Warner at 4:43PM on 08/26/09