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Taste Trunk
Cost: $35/month
Ships To: United States.
Coupon Code: Use code “Ramblings” to save 25% off your first trunk.
Taste Trunk, who kindly sent me this box to review, is a monthly subscription box offering 4 to 6 products, discount coupons, backgrounds on the companies and amazing recipe ideas from one of four themes, including Gourmet, Sweet, BBQ and Healthy Chef. Brands and items are hand selected and trunks are only $35/month. Taste Trunk sent me two boxes to review and I selected the Gourmet and the Sweet boxes. This is my “Sweet” trunk review and you can check out my “Gourmet” box review here.
Taste Trunk ships via USPS with your first box arriving between 5 to 7 days after it is ordered. Subsequent boxes will arrive by the 20th of the month.
Not only are Taste Trunk packages aesthetically pleasing, they are also very securely packaged. They ship fragile items, but they are packed with lots of packing materials to protect them.
Taste Trunk’s information cards include both product information and recipes / suggestions on how to use the products included. The cards are wrapped in an old school newspaper advertisement type bag and are neatly tied. The presentation is top notch and would make a fabulous gift. Here is what my October 2014 Sweet Taste Trunk included:
~Sweet Sams Black & White Cookie (~$3): This cookie was perfection. It was super soft and tasted like it had just come out of the oven. It’s described as a cake like cookie and I find that to be totally true. So good.
~Clairesquares Dark Chocolate Shortbread Squares ($7.99): These are amazing. They are the perfect combination of, well, everything. They have caramel and dark chocolate and shortbread – all things I love. The information card suggests trying them with cabernet which I SO should have tried.
~Carol’s Cookies Oatmeal Raisin with Pecans (~$5): I don’t know if you can tell from my picture or not, but this cookie is giant. Like insanely huge. For real. The card says it weighs a half a pound! While this was good, I think with just chocolate chips instead of nuts and raisins and it would have been incredible.
~Boujie Baking Co. Raspberry Lambic Caramel Sauce ($7): I have a giant caramel addiction. I never used to, but the past few months it’s been out of control. I tried this right away and it was delightful. The information card has a recipe for Cheesecake Cupcakes which include this sauce that sounds out of this world. I am almost scared to make them – they sound so good!
~Mariposa Coconut Lemon Squares ($3.50): I am not a fan of this one. I am sure if you like coconut and pecans and lemon (I actually do like lemon but not in this combo), you’d like it, but it wasn’t for me.
~Mariposa Penguinos ($8.75): So not only are these cupcakes amazing, they are also gluten, wheat & dairy-free and also vegan! I loved that they were individually wrapped so you don’t have to worry about them going bad too soon. L enjoyed them too!
All totaled I came up with a value of $35.24 for the October 2014 Sweets Taste Trunk. I did a little estimating on this one, but I think I am pretty close to the total. I loved the variety in this box and absolutely loved that it was full of items that I not only thought were delicious (for the most part anyway), but also had never heard of before!
What do you think of Taste Trunk? If you are interested in subscribing or just want to learn more, click here. You can use the code “Ramblings” to take 25% off your first trunk, which would make it only $26.25 to try!
I love the packaging and your review. I would love to try one of this taste trunks.
I would pay good money for a true authentic black and white cookie. The best I ever had are from the Jewish bakeries in NYC. Absolutely heavenly. I’ve seen stores trying to pass their black and white cookies as the real thing, but there is no comparison. That looks like the real deal.
I can’t be reading this around dinner time. I ordered 3 black and white cookies.
Everyone declared the cookies were delicious. Almost as good as the ones I remember! They did not last long in this house.
Yay!
Ahh I love black and white cookies! The last time I had one was in march when I visited New York!
Omg!!!! I just had to pause RHNJ bc I saw mariposa. I’m am so beyond obsessed with this bakery.. I’m extremely gluten free (celiac ) as are my 2 boys and I pay an arm and a leg to receive shipments from them from California as I’m here in mi. Its super expensive so I’ve had to take a few months off:(((( I seriously can’t find gluten free food that amazing here 🙁 I thought it was a box from them I almost freaked out! !! I’m sooo jelous.. i wondering should sign up for one month if I can get this month’s box???
I don’t think you could get this one, but you might be able to buy some stuff from their shop???
You can buy it from the Taste Trunk shop. I received my cookies today with no issues.
I haven’t received my Sweet Trunk tracking info yet, but I’ve previously received all of these items from them within the past three months or so except for the Chocolate Shortbread Squares– I don’t think that everyone is sent the same “monthly” sweets…
I would agree with that. Let me know what you end up getting!
I am confused about the pricing because the sweet taste trunk on their website is $60. Why would I want to pay $60 if the items only add up to $35? And if I order the $60 one do I get only the items in the picture or more than that?
Where are you seeing the $60? I just went and looked and see three months for $99 total? Are you looking at a one time purchase box?
Yes, I was looking at the one time purchase boxes.