What's the best Oreo? I ate 62 flavors so you don't have to: Here's how they rank, worst to best (2024)

By Nick O'Malley | nomalley@masslive.com

Welcome back for one man's unexpected crusade to chronicle the continued cookie chaos that Oreo continues to unleash upon this poor, unsuspecting world.

Here we are, just people minding our own business, and here come Cherry Cola Oreos surging forth from the oceans like the Cloverfield monster. The big difference is that one is a horrible lab experiment gone wrong and the other one is the Cloverfield monster.

Yet, there are some positive developments on the Oreo circuit. Dark Chocolate Oreos just hit shelves as a long-term flavor and are actually pretty good, as are some other new additions.

We've added some new flavors to the all-time list since the last time we did a ranking. Here are the new entrants for evaluation that pushed us over 60:

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• Dark Chocolate Oreo
• Carrot Cake Oreo
• Cherry Cola Oreo
• Peppermint Bark Oreo
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Oreo
• Rocky Road Trip Oreo
• Kettle Corn Oreo
• Oreo Thins Pistachio
• Oreo Thins Piña Colada
• Oreo Thins Bites Fudge Dipped Coconut
• Oreo Thins Bites Fudge Dipped Mint
• Oreo Thins Bites Fudge Dipped Original

There are a lot of Oreos out there now, and only some are still on store shelves. As for the current batch, the Dark Chocolate and Carrot Cake are pretty good. Avoid Cherry Cola and Piña Colada. Here's a more in-depth breakdown of the all-time Oreo ranking.

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62. Banana Split Oreo

It's been nearly five years since I ate this cookie and it still haunts me, like that time in third grade when I threw up because someone showed me a squished green bean on a napkin.

There's no actual split/sundae element, which was unfortunate because I was looking to some sort of cherry on top being represented to make up for the banana. It turns out, it's all the same awful flavor.

This "banana flavor" in the filling is about as convincing as a man in a banana suit screaming "Hey! I'm a banana! Believe that I'm a banana!"

I remember when I first finished this cookie, I could still smell it on me, haunting like some sort of banana ghost.

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61. Cookie Dough Oreo

This cookie personally betrayed me, coming out with promises of "cookie dough" flavor and deliver nothing but a cookie filled with lies and bland butter.

Imagine getting all excited to eat a handful of M&Ms, except when you chew you realize there's a couple Skittles mixed in there. That's the sort of disappointment I felt when I bit into this cookie.

It would be one thing is this was just a bland-but-sweet generic cookie. But instead it tastes like a wad of unsalted butter mixed with flour that's been stuffed between two cookies who have never done anyone wrong.

Honestly, I feel bad for the chocolate cookies here. There accomplices to a crime they had no intention of committing. They just showed up to the cookie factory one day and now they're on trial for flavor murder.

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(NEW) 60. Cherry Cola Oreo

You know this didn't work. I don't need to tell you how misguided and hopeless this idea was, right?

The Cherry Cola Oreo was pretty much an impossible flavor to try and pull off in the first place. The cookie pulled it off with all the grace of a caffeinated rhinoceros in a bounce house.

The popping candy is an interesting concept, but is just off-putting here. That's largely in part to the cartoonish cherry flavor clashing with an otherwise normal cookie. It tastes like good toothpaste -- in flavor and texture. MassLive reporter Aviva Luttrell said it was was like eating a Yankee Candle.

I'm honestly glad that these didn't work. If they did, that means that Oreo has one of the world's most talented minds at work in some flavor dungeon looking at "popping candy" under a microscrope instead of getting us to Mars.

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59. Berry Oreo

The creme flavor here is the same generic berry flavoring you'd find in your standard macro dessert. It was fine. I can't imagine myself ever going out of my way to try it again. This was an Oreo that really didn't need to exist.

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58. Limeade Oreo

This cookie is lime-flavored, which is -- for whatever reason -- apparently intentional.

The single-note flavor from the creme provides a somewhat harsh pop when you bite down and doesn't really make for a particularly pleasurable cookie experience.

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57. Apple Pie Oreo

I have no idea how they did it, but Oreo made apple pie seem like a terrible flavor.

This cookie smells good. It looks good. It's got a graham-flavored cookie and everything. But the filling? It tastes like a green apple lollipop, with hardly a hint of cinnamon or any of the flavors that make apple pie awesome.

This is one of the most disappointing cookies in Oreo history. Don't bring these to a family get-together. There will be punches thrown.

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56. Reduced Fat Oreo

OK, I know these would be worse than normal Oreos. I didn't think they'd be this bad.

These taste like an Oreo where they just got the recipe wrong and forgot a quarter of the ingredients. The entire cookie is dry. It's a weak, crumbly starchy mess with a too-small dollop of thick, gritty, tasteless creme.

Also, why are people still buying "reduced fat" products? That just means they're jacking up the sugar to fill the void. These cookies should be ground down and repurposed as concrete.

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(NEW) 55. Oreo Thins Piña Colada

Somehow this cookie managed to be worse than all the Jimmy Buffett jokes that are made whenever they make an appearance.

This wasn't a good cookie for the Thins format. The pineapple-heavy flavor is underwhelming and gets overwhelmed by the cookie.

This has all the flavor -- and disappointment -- of a $15 fruity co*cktail with a little umbrella in it. You start excited and end up mad that you're left with this giant pile of mismanaged sugar that you don't even want anymore.

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54. Caramel Apple Oreo

You know how "salted caramel" products go for a nice clean caramel flavor? This is the exact opposite. You can taste the caramel and the apple, but you can also taste the languid, melding, wet flavors of a caramel apple that's been left out too long. Bleh.

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53. Key Lime Pie Oreo

This tasted pretty similar to the Limeade Oreo - but did stink noticeably less. The lime flavor is still overpowering, but it's a bit more balanced here.

The biggest takeaway is the fragrance. Even if you seal it back up, you can smell the sharp lime lingering. Fortunately, the flavor is a little bit more tactful. The graham-flavored cookie helps a little bit here.

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52. Fruit Punch Oreo

The Fruit Punch Oreos are heavily reminiscent of Trix cereal (before they cheaped out and changed from the actual fruit shapes) and a little bit of raw Kool-Aid. But like the Limeade variety, it's quite pungent, but a little less acrid upon the initial taste.

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(NEW) 51. Oreo Thins Pistachio

I like pistachios. I think they're the one nut that's actually worth putting into a cookie -- specifically biscotti.

But this didn't work particularly well. When you bite down, you start off by tasting nothing but cookie before you hit a sharp wave of bright flavor from the creme. It's way flashier than any nut flavor has any business being.

I think this would've been better off with a vanilla cookie anyway.

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50. Hot & Spicy Cinnamon Oreo

Man, these are weird. But at least they're interesting

The filling tastes just like Big Red gum. It's a weird combination with the cookie, though you're mostly getting the filling anyway. If you're one of those people that like the hot cinnamon flavor, you may just like this. I'm not about it.

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49. Pumpkin Spice Oreo

The Pumpkin Spice Oreos are the first cookies to breach the "Just OK" line. They're mellow enough for the eater to simply sit back and enjoy them instead of tensing up like they're tossing a citrus cookie grenade down the hatch and hoping for the best.

There's some pumpkin, and not a lot of spice here. The flavor is a pretty bland "pumpkin/harvest/fall sugar" taste, which is good. Implementing actual pumpkins here would probably lead to disaster.

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48. Mystery Oreo

At first, I was on board with the flavor. It's essentially "Fruity Pebble" flavor (or the old Oreo "Fruity Crisp" flavor) that's been put onto a chocolate cookie.

The cookie clashes with the creme, creating a weird mash of dissonant flavors.

Then there's the smell. It permeates the packaging. It gets everywhere. It's like a fruity Axe body spray that will overpower every other scent in a 10-foot radius. This is a good thing at first. But then your nose gets tired of it, and you'll want to lock the package in an old crate in the basem*nt.

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47. Chocolate Hazelnut Oreo

This is essentially a Nutella Oreo that dances around copyright. It also dances around the flavor.

The appearance and texture are there. But when you take a bite, there's a strange absence of any sort of flavor from the creme. The Nutella-ish filling almost tastes watered down and is overpowered by the cookie.

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46. PB&J Oreo

This cookie is hit or miss. The peanut butter is good and works well with the cookie. The jelly part is pretty strong, though, and doesn't create that beautiful PB&J symbiosis in the cookie. You get a taste of nice, mellow peanut butter, but then the jelly comes crashing in through the front door, throwing off everything the cookie was trying to do at that point.

It's not bad, but doesn't quite live up to its potential.

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(NEW) 45. Oreo Thin Bites Fudge Dipped Mint Creme

I'm a fan of the normal mint Oreos, but not these. Either the creme is different or my mouth is dumb.

When I tried these, I got a lot of cool mint sensation, but not that much flavor. It was more of a light wintergreen rush than actual mint flavor.

Normally, mint is a great combination with Oreo. But it didn't work out this time.

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44. Lemon Oreo

Of all the fruit flavors, this was the most manageable. To be fair, though, a lemon cookie is anything from groundbreaking. That's why this one tastes similar to a low-end Italian lemon cookie, sort of on the lines of a Vienna Finger (a recurring theme).

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43. Oreo Thins Salted Caramel

These fell pretty short of expectations. This was another cookie where you got a nice smell coming off the cookie, but not as much taste.

The "thin" aspect of the cookies really hurt these. You really don't get much caramel flavor. You really don't get much flavor at all outside of the cookie, which is a shame, because the flavor of the creme itself is pretty good if you can find it.

They should probably just make a normal Salted Caramel Oreo -- maybe even Double Stuf it.

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42. Oreo Thins Lemon

I was pretty big on the Oreos Thins overall. The lemon version has a really nice cookie-to-creme balance, especially between the vanilla and lemon flavors.

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41. Cookies & Creme Oreo

Yes, this is the Oreo-flavored Oreo. It's peculiar, because it has about as much creme as a double stuff, but the flavor balance of a normal Oreo.

There's really no reason for this cookie to exist. It's a more efficient method of eating two Oreos simultaneously.

These cookies are dumb and expensive and a monument to man's folly.

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40. Chocolate Creme Oreo (Golden)

I'm pretty sure I didn't touch on this cookie the first time I reviewed Oreos. I might've forgotten. If I went back in time to rectify this, I'd probably forget again. This cookie is wholly unremarkable in every way. It tastes a bland sort of chocolatey with some vanilla cookie. Meh.

Wait, I think I've already forgotten what these taste like again.

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39. Oreo Thins Coconut

I'm a somewhat cocount-averse person. Usually, there are better flavor options. But in this stance, I can appreciate as a solid complement to the cookie. This is the first cookie that I could actually go around recommending to people (provided they like coconut).

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38. Peppermint Bark Oreos

I was ready to make some big, booming statement about the oversaturation of Christmas and winter-related flavors in discussing this cookie. But I really don't have any strong feelings about this cookie.

This lands with a thud under the York Peppermint Patty-esque combination of chocolate and peppermint. It's a fine combination and this is a perfectly fine Oreo.

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37. Peeps Oreo

There's no crazy marshmallow nonsense that normally comes with Peeps. Instead, we get a bright pink filling with crunchy little sugar bits. The best way to describe these cookies is that the creme tastes like "pink."

It's not quite cherry or fruity, but is still noticeably vibrant. Examples include pink Starburst and countless pink candies whose exact flavor definition has been long forgotten in a sugary haze over the years.

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36. Golden Oreo

Golden Oreos tend to get overlooked in the hurricane of flavors, new and old. They're forgettable, but not bad with their Vienna Finger-like flavor and crunch.

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35. Oreo Thins (Golden)

It's the same vanilla cookie/creme flavors as the original. But for whatever reason, the balance between the two comes off a little better in this formula.

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34. Golden Double Stuf Oreo

When you start messing with different sizes, it's a weird matter of taste. Somehow, once you reach a certain point of creme content, it breaks into a higher threshold of flavor. That's what happened with the Golden Oreo.

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33. Blueberry Pie Oreo

These cookies will likely get your hopes up. Just look at them: Blue-creme Oreos. Plus, they smell great.

However, you don't get that much actual flavor when you eat them. The inclusion of the graham-flavor cookie is a nice wrinkle. However, the blueberry creme just doesn't stand out much.

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32. Jelly Donut Oreo

Conceptually, these are bonkers. But it's actually a pretty ambitious and tasty cookie.

It's a normal Golden Oreo, just with a separate grape jelly-flavored creme in the middle. This adds a really cool wrinkle to the whole experience. You get that nice blend of jelly and vanilla flavors, which go together surprisingly well.

With that said, it's pretty heavy and sweet. Don't binge these.

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(NEW) 31. Kettle Corn Oreo

I'm torn here because I love kettle corn. It's the perfect balance between "sweet snack" and "bingeable snack." They key is you get a little bit of sweetness on something that you can munch on for a while.

This Oreo gives you a nice, mellow flavors that's in tune with the caramelized sugar aspect. But it's also an Oreo. You can't (or at least shouldn't) binge these.

Deep down, I wanted something with a big blast of flavor like a breakfast cereal. Instead, this comes off as kind of middling.

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30. Oreo Mini

No other Oreo has more cookie in the cookie-to-creme ratio as these. So if you dig more of the crunch, then you may like these more.

They're not super exciting, but do let you extend the amount of time you can snack on Oreos without the calorie count piling so high. (They're nine cookies per 140 calories as opposed to two cookies for a normal Oreo.)

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(NEW) 29. Oreo Thin Bites Fudge Dipped Original

This is barely and Oreo, but I still like it. It's a nice little mound of chocolate crunch that has the creme on the inside as basically a little after thought. In terms of chocolate-to-creme ratio, this is the Oreo with the most chocolate involved.

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28. Oreo Mini Golden

Similar to the original minis, but with the golden cookie. Between the two, you're basically picking which cookie you think tastes better.

If we're mostly tasting cookie, I'll go for the gold.

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27. Dunkin Donuts Mocha Oreo

I'm surprised it took this long for there to be a coffee Oreo. But I'm glad it's here.

The Mocha Oreo does a great job of emulating exactly what you want from a sweet mocha concoction. You get that nice chocolatey goodness up front, with the coffee filling out across your palate on the backend. It's a solid one-two punch of chocolate and coffee.

In terms of execution, it's up there with the peanut butter-chocolate Oreos.

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26. Peanut Butter Creme Oreo

Whoa. This was not as sweet as I thought it'd be. It's a much duller, darker peanut butter taste than you'd expect. More like a Nutter Butter than Reese's Peanut Butter. But that dull peanut butter tastes doesn't mesh very well with the chocolate, the whole thing tastes dull and doesn't have that fun peanut butter/chocolate combo.

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25. Peanut Butter Cup Oreo

A minor step up from the original peanut butter version. The separate peanut butter and chocolate creme flavors both work and create a sweet, mellow overall flavor that's pretty darn good. It's a little more chocolatey than the standard peanut butter version.

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(NEW) 24. Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

This is basically the old Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Oreo with a different cookie on the outside. This time around, it's a graham-flavored cookie, which leans heavily into the peanut butter flavor. It's very much like a Nutter Butter and really nails the Graham, buttery sweet flavor.

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23. Chocolate Creme Oreo

Not as chocolatey as I hoped it'd be. It was just an Oreo, with less classic creme taste and a lingering taste of what I guess was chocolate-esque. Overall, it just kind of tastes like a cookie, which isn't bad. But it also isn't double stuffed, which is should be.

(NEW) 22. Dark Chocolate Oreo

This is a good Oreo. It's double-stuf, which means that it comes with a lot of chocolate creme. But since this is dark chocolate, it comes off more like a really nice ganache rather than a big sugar bomb.

This cookie takes a much different direction than most flavors on this list. It's more of a slow chew rather than something to binge.

For once, we've got an Oreo that isn't designed to be eaten by the sleeve (not that I'm saying you can't).

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(NEW) 22. Rocky Road Trip Oreo

You know what? I like this cookie.

Flavor-wise, it's similar to the chocolate-chocolate cookie. But the marshmallow bits and faux-nuts at a fun textural element. There's just more going on in this cookie. It's a slightly enhanced chocolate Oreo.

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21. Mega Stuf Oreo (Vanilla Cookie)

Is this a sugar bomb? Sure. But it's an awesome sugar bomb.

In this format, the cookies are pretty much just acting as vessels to carry the creme. Golden Oreos usually aren't exciting. But once they get to ridiculous creme proportions, they start meriting more attention.

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(NEW) 20. Oreo Thins Bits Fudge Dipped Coconut

There was a time in my life where I thought I didn't like coconut-flavored things. Apparently, I needed more cookies like this.

These cookies have a great mix of chocolate and coconut flavor. It's like a Samoa cookie without the caramel. The result is a satisfying chocolatey crunch that's buoyed by a wonderful, creamy coconut flavor on the inside. What's more, it has all the coconut flavor without the gritty coconut consistency -- because apparently that's a thing for some people. (Well, at least Woody Harrelson in "Zombieland.")

(NEW) 19. Carrot Cake Oreo

While "carrot cake" wasn't at the top of my list of Oreo flavors I wanted, this was a pretty inventive concept. It's a carrot cake cookie with cream cheese filling. As a result, you get a nice cinnamon-y cookie paired with a mellow sweetness from the cream cheese.

Even if you're not a huge carrot cake fan, give this a try. It leans more "cinnamon roll" than "carrot cake."

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18. Cotton Candy Oreo

It's remarkable how spot on the cotton candy flavor is in this cookie. It's got that familiar trademark flavor in the pink/blue creme blend -- though there's no distinguishable difference between the colors.

The standard vanilla cookie complements it well to produce a great overall cookie. Its most successful quality, though, is the texture of the cotton candy-flavored creme. If you isolate it and bite down, you actually get that familiar dense-sugar feel of a bite into actual cotton candy. It's a technological marvel.

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17. Mint Creme Oreo

This is a creamy thin mint.

I love over-the-top-sweet mint mixed with chocolate flavors. So, even though the mint flavor was a little out of control -- like a box of Andes mints fired out of a t-shirt cannon -- it was still enjoyable.

Avoid eating en masse. It'd probably end up feeling like downing a dozen cough drops covered in icing.

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16. Fireworks Oreo

These basically taste the same as Double Stuf Oreos with tiny little sugar sprinkles mixed in. There isn't much change to the flavor besides a little extra sweetness.

It's a minor wrinkle, but does provide a fun change-up to the usual experience. They're noticeably less creamy when you bite into them.

(And yes, you do get a Pop Rocks-like sensation when you eat them.)

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15. Birthday Cake (Chocolate Cookie) Oreo

I've long been a proponent of "birthday cake" as a flavor, probably because I've largely been invulnerable to overly sweet things and may or may not still have the palate of a 12-year-old.

Still, this combination works well as a vessel for that little funfetti party of creme between the cookies. The chocolate cookies don't do too much to complement the flavor, but they do get out of the way while providing that crunchy/creamy texture.

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14. Triple Double Oreo

At a certain point, this thing has to stop masquerading as a cookie. The original Oreo was pushing the limits as it was. But this is really just a miniature layered cake consisting of thin biscuits and icing.

The Triple Double takes some game planning to eat. You can't just pop it into your mouth and expect to avoid getting Oreo dust all over your desk, your pants, your dog and your neighbor's yard.

But when you do corral this beast, it's a much more well-rounded flavor that you'd expect. It's not overpowering and had a bunch of different textures and flavors unbecoming of this group. It really eats more like a dense cake than a sugar-rush cookie.

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13. Red Velvet Oreo

The cookie is red. It doesn't taste any different but it's just really weird to see, like when Daniel Radcliffe appears in anything that isn't "Harry Potter."

The frosting meanwhile, is a damn rock star. It's got a splendid cream cheese flavor, which is a little sweeter, a little creamier and has the same aftertaste as a dense cream cheese frosting. The creme is indeed pretty heavy, making every cookie hit your stomach with double the weight of a normal Oreo. These may be the least binge-able cookies they have out, outside of the ones that taste bad (looking at you, Banana Split).

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12. Cinnamon Bun Oreo

These are the best-smelling Oreos I've ever encountered.

It helps that this cookies has cinnamon-flavored cookies along with a creme that does a great job of emulating the icing on an actual cinnamon bun. It could've done a better job with adding more cinnamon flavor, but is still a really good cookie.

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11. Oreo Thins (Chocolate)

There's a big gap between regular Oreos and Chocolate Oreos. But when it comes to Thins, the difference is pretty small.

With less creme, there's more room for the cookie to shine. In this instance, it's a more balanced chocolate-y experience that pops off with more flavor than the original version.

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10. Cookie Butter Oreo

This pretty much tastes like a Dunkaroo. It's awesome.

In case you haven't hopped on the cookie butter bandwagon yet, it's basically in the same vein as Nutella. It's pretty much a dessert spread that you put on a carb of your choosing.

In this case, it's cookie butter on a graham cookie. I'd put it up there with some of the best Oreos of all time. Even so, it's not the best of the bunch.

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9. Oreo Thins (Mint)

These cookies work because you get a bunch of mint flavor from a little bit of creme. That's really the best format for the mint-chocolate cookie style. Here, you get a lot of chocolate crunch with a burst of cool mint coming through.

While the normal Mint Oreo has just a bit too much creme, this version hits just the right balance.

Don't sleep on the Oreo Thins. Sometimes, the solution isn't always to throw more creme at the problem.

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8. Mega Stuf Oreo

Here we are: We've entered the realm of the classic Oreo. The combination of the signature creme and chocolate cookie isn't just classic it's legitimately delicious.

At this point, it's basically a matter of what kind of creme-to-cookie ratio you want. For me, the Mega Stuf is more of a novelty than anything. It's still good, sure. But after a while, there's just too much creme.

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7. Double Stuf Oreo

Oddly enough, Double Stuf seems to have turned into the standard level of creme for the new flavors, which is probably why so many of them are over-the-top sweet.

The classic Double Stuf, though? It's still fantastic. It's the first real experiment that Oreo put out, and remains one of their best. However, it does fall short to two of it's lesser-stuffed companions.

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6. Oreo Thins

Thins over Double Stuf? Call me a heretic if you want, but they've won me over.

I really like the balance here. You get the flavor of the creme, but without the mush out the sides that usually comes when you bite into an Oreo. It's a small change, but it does produce a cool overall flavor and texture that makes me want to go back for more than the over-stuffed versions do.

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5. Oreo

Sure, it's fun to play around with all the crazy new flavors and try out different things. But at the end of the day, sometimes you just need a good cookie.

Going back to a classic Oreo after trying all of the new flavors is like going back to your favorite pizza joint and getting a knockout slice of pepperoni or cheese. Sure, the crazy pizza topped with french fries and double bacon is fun. The classic isn't exciting, but it's always good.

The classic Oreo hits the ideal balance between cookie and creme, to the point where the flavor profile has become a cultural mainstay. It's just big enough to be desirable and just the right size to be bingeable without being a sugar bomb.

You really can't go wrong with the flagship cookie. (Unless you're talking about one of the four flavors below.)

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4. Hot Cocoa Oreo

It appears that the Hot Cocoa Oreo takes the chocolate-marshmallow combo filling that was so successful in the S'mores Oreo (more on that in a sec) and pops it onto a chocolate cookie.

It's not as good as the original, but it's still a fantastic combo of chocolate and marshmallow. The marshmallow may seem like a small element, but it really adds a lot to the overall flavor of the cookie. It's more balanced. It's a chocolate-laced cookie warhead, sure, but that marshmallow aspect really makes it pop.

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3. Golden Birthday Cake Oreo (The best cookie currently available)

This Birthday Cake Oreo is miles ahead of the chocolate version. It has the same filling, but the vanilla cookie on the outside is playing for the same team, adding another dimension to the bright, sweet icing on the inside.

The combination of vanilla cookie and funfetti icing work in concert to produce a cookie that actively knows what it's doing as a dessert, a rarity among these other concoctions which are random Candy Land checkpoints slapped between two chocolate cookies.

This is the only cookie ranked about the classic Oreo that you can still find on store shelves. So this is effectively my top active Oreo.

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2. Marshmallow Krispy Creme Oreo

Have you ever tried Rice Krispies Treats cereal? If so, this is the only thing I've ever encountered that's ever come close to replicating that taste. (Note: That cereal was delicious.)

Between the flavor of the golden cookie and the marshmallow creme (filled with little crispy bits), the cookie did a remarkable job of pulling off a Rice Krispie Treat impersonation. It had this wonderful, mellow, buttery flavor that stopped short of being a pure sugar bomb.

This remains one of the best ideas Oreos ever come out with -- and one of the best executed ones at that. I remain perplexed that they ever took these off shelves.

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1. S'mores Oreo

This is the best Oreo ever made and every day that goes by without them returning to store shelves is a travesty.

This cookie is the pinnacle of cookie technology. Some genius down in Oreo's flavor engineering dungeon lab (or whatever they have) created a masterpiece. The creme is addictive, showing what happens when you mix two layers of creme that play off each other (a technique they should experiment with more).

The separate marshmallow and chocolate cremes that fuse into a satisfying s'mores flavor fusion hitches a ride with a graham flavor jetpack and flies off into the cookie heavens.

Not only should they bring this flavor back, they should make a separate line of just "S'moreos." When I walk into the store, I should see the plain Oreo section, the "S'moreo" section and then the "other flavors" section.

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As long as this list is, it's by no means exhaustive. If you can't find a flavor on there, it's because I never managed to track it down while it was out on store shelves. Meanwhile, I chose not to include the "Winter Oreo" or "Halloween Oreo" options because those are just normal Oreos with food coloring.

But even with the long list of Oreo flavors that have hit store shelves over the years, there are still a lot of good ideas they haven't made yet:

10. Cannoli
9. Salted Caramel (Regular or Double Stuf)
8. Pecan Pie
7. Tiramisu
6. Snickerdoodle
5. Honeycomb
4. Samoa/Caramel Delite
3. Unicorn
2. Maple or Maple Bacon
1.Snickers (Chocolate cookie with peanut butter/caramel creme)

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