Abe's Cornbread

CornBREAD isn't really accurate for this. It's Corn CAKE. Muffin in square form. The first ingredient is sugar. Although I love sweets, I don't want a sweet corn bread. I want a corn corn bread. Ah well. I still like Abe's and I will still eat this (nut/soy/pea/sesame free!!) cake product as a dessert while wishing it were any number of other desserts and/or corn products! Very sweet, moist, light corn notes. 12 servings which is frankly a big commitment. Gonna have to freeze it. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10 

Abe's One Big Muffin - Banana

I didn't enter a big muffin phase intentionally, but what the produce box delivers, I accept with open arms. This flavor is boring. I like banana things, breads especially, and I have been abstaining from banana for about 9 months since it's supposedly histamine rich. But no longer! Anyway, even with all that distance, this flavor is boring. Maybe on a par with blueberry, which is better visually but maybe the same taste-ily. Choco is still the best big muffin (so far).

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Abe's One Big Muffin - Chocolate Chip

I know that 'in for a penny, in for a pound' is one of my most toxic patterns, but also, I'm in for a lot of pennies at the moment. So the fact that this chocolate chip muffin probably weighs a pound is irrelevant to me. This one is better than the big corn muffin and big blueberry muffin, but I'm not sure if it's because I ate it cold and not in a hurry, or if it's truly better tasting. The chocolate chips are like normal lil dark chocolate chips and the rest of the muffin tastes like normal muffin. The texture is a little bit too dense for my preference, but it's not egregious. Overall it is a treat, which is what you want from your weird large nut-free muffin. 

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

abe's One Big Muffin - blueberry

I thought these massive muffins would be good for me to consume in the .5 seconds I have between classes, and in some ways (calorie density, portability) they are good for that. But in other ways (nutrition, giving me flulike weariness) I am not so sure. They're big and taste like a mushy, slightly processed pound cake. I haven't identified a better option, but to be fair, I haven't put much energy into the task. Maybe if these muffins were better at giving me energy, I'd have energy to replace them. Clever Abe.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Abe's One Big Muffin - Corn

This sure is a big muffin. Which I like. However, this might be old-fashioned of me, but I think the primary note in a corn muffin ought to be corn (and not sugar, like here, or even salt or butter etc). I could hardly taste the corn! Just a whisp of corn! Other than that minor(?) issue, this was very pleasant. Large, as mentioned, and moist and sweet. Plus the packaging is all about how Abe's dad loves his trago allergy-having son. Some beautiful wish-fulfillment-via-muffin-packaging there.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

abe's vanilla cupcakes

Philly grocery really crushing it in the allergy-free space!! For an egg-free, milk-free, soy-free cupcake, this is quite good. Surprisingly normal, although not quite as delicious, especially in the frosting (although there is somehow a tangy note, which impressed me). A little bit less sweet tasting than those milkful nutfree mini cupcakes at my local store, even though I believe the sugar content is the same. These were a nice treat to reward me for not dying or vomming during any famous linguists' talks! Yay me!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

Abe's Mom's Blueberry Muffins

Noooo I didn't realise these were Abe's MOM'S and not ABE'S. That means they're gluten free. That means, apparently, that they're much worse. (Sorry, gluten free fam). Just a weird dry firm texture, doesn't taste very good or sweet or berry-y, which is a shame. I miss Abe's!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 5/10

Abe's mini muffins - Pumpkin Spice

These would be really good with like, a cream cheese frosting! As it stands, they're kind of boring. Needs more of the "spices" maybe. It's pumpkiny, but only just, and not spicy much at all. Reminds me of the pumpkin muffin mix I made at home, which was also fine, and I love safe bakery items, but the taste as it stands doesn't thrill me. It's the potato of muffins. Sorry, abe! I like your other flavors, though!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10

Abe's Cranberry Orange Mini Muffins

These were good! The best Abe's-muffin flavor I've tried so far. The cranberry and orange pieces are the key, and the more of those, the better the muffin is. The bread is plain/sweet otherwise. A little dry for my taste, but still, good.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 8/10

Abe's Apple Cider Mini Muffins

You know I love a nut-free bakery item! And although these are also egg and milk free, they do still have wheat, which for my purposes makes them taste in the realm of "normal muffin" (woo). As far as taste, they certainly are spice heavy more than apple, and they're a little bit dense/dry for my taste (probably because they're kept refridgerated), but in general a decent spicy breakfast bread vibe.

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 7/10

abe's Blueberry muffins

Alas! So most importantly, these muffins are free from my allergens (nuts, sesame, pea, legume) very explicitly. And they have wheat in them, so they're not top-8 free, and therefore I hoped they might taste.... normal. But they're vegan, and they taste it. Thus the "alas". They also taste very lemony, which I wasn't expecting. It's not bad, it just isn't the prototypical bakery muffin of my dreams. I think they're a little too dry, spongy, and dense all at once. The flavor is OK though. They also don't have wrappers, which I actually like. More bang for your buck!

Overall
Cost: 5/10
Taste: 6/10