Selena Gomez’s New OREO Flavor Comes With A Catch

It seems like “Ice Cream” singer Selena Gomez is branching out with a partnership for one more candy deal with.

The “Love You Like A Love Music” singer just lately partnered with the OREO cookie model as a way to develop her personal restricted version cookie for the summer season.

The OREO model has give you quite a lot of artistic restricted version flavors through the years, however the “New Basic” singer’s new taste would possibly simply show to be a brand new fan-favorite. The brand new candy and spicy cookies are primarily based on the singer’s love of horchata, making a chocolate confection with a twist.

The brand new restricted version cookies embody a layer of chocolate and cinnamon taste crème on high of a layer of sweetened condensed milk taste crème that additionally includes a trace of cinnamon sugar. The 2 chocolate wafers that sandwich the crème are additionally flippantly spiced with cinnamon, creating an virtually gingerbread-like chocolate cookie.

In a press launch obtained by The Blast, the “Kill Em With Kindness” singer defined that the horchata taste got here from the spiced non-alcoholic drink that she loved as a baby, which is often created from rice, water, cinnamon, sugar, and a splash of vanilla in Mexico. In Spain, the drink was initially made with tiger nuts, additionally known as chufa.

“Making my very own OREO cookie was quite a lot of enjoyable. I grew up loving them, so with the ability to be part of the method was a full-circle second,” she stated in a press release. “I needed to discover a approach for it to really feel comforting and have a little bit of nostalgia from my childhood. The cinnamon taste offers it this horchata really feel, and I am excited for my followers to strive it.”

Along with the distinctive taste, OREO has additionally created six completely different embossments for followers to take pleasure in. She even included a cookie ornament that spells out “Selenators,” that are what her followers name themselves, in a particular tribute to their help over her years within the business.

In response to the press launch, there’s additionally one unique cookie present in roughly each three packs that options her traditional signature. Though this isn’t the primary time OREO has made gildings to their cookie form, it’s the first time that the OREO model has used an autograph on a cookie.

Sadly, most OREO cookies are made with wheat flour and are due to this fact not gluten-free. The Blast reached out to the model for remark and was in a position to affirm that not solely are these restricted version cookies not gluten-free, however there are not any plans to launch a gluten-free selection sooner or later.

That is disappointing to gluten-free followers seeking to check out the brand new taste, however there’s hope {that a} restricted version cookie taste is likely to be accessible down the road. Presently, OREO has released their traditional sandwich cookies, their golden sandwich cookies, and their mint sandwich cookies, in gluten-free kind, swapping out wheat flour for a mix of gluten-free flours that embody white rice flour and oat flour.

In a dialog with PEOPLEjournal, the “Solely Murders In The Constructing” star defined that she determined to accomplice with OREO to create a brand new cookie to “have interaction” along with her followers and have some enjoyable within the course of.

“I’m selective when deciding to accomplice with manufacturers as a result of it at all times must be one thing genuine to me,” she defined. “Like most individuals, I’ve beloved Oreo cookies for so long as I can keep in mind, and so after I was approached to collaborate alone taste, it was one thing I couldn’t say no to doing.”

She went on to say that it was a brand new solution to “have interaction with [her] followers” in a approach that “felt completely different from something [she’d] completed previously.” She needed to share the “very private” taste along with her followers, including, “Even for those who’ve by no means had horchata, it was my purpose to ignite a way of familiarity when somebody takes a chunk.”