The Fan-Favorite Discontinued Little Debbie Snack Cakes We Want Back

For snack aficionados of all ages, Little Debbie cakes are synonymous with nostalgia. While perennial favorites like Zebra Cakes are still slapping in school lunch boxes (and, okay, adult munchy situations as well), the list of discontinued Little Debbie snacks we're probably never getting back contains some real bangers. Little Debbie Turtle Brownies were discontinued without a trace, but so were PB & J Oatmeal Pies, Banana Twins, and Spice Cakes. The MIA snack that we really crave, however, is Boston Creme Rolls.

Axed in 2023, Boston Creme Rolls were as beautiful as they were delicious. Yellow sponge was gingerly wrapped around a vanilla cream filling, then delicately dappled in chocolate drizzle. The name gives away the fact that they were inspired by Boston cream pie, which, despite being the state dessert of Massachusetts, is enjoyed nationwide. Boston cream is a custardy pastry cream similar to Bavarian cream, but thickened with cornstarch instead of heavy cream and gelatin. 

The Parker House Hotel in Boston takes credit for inventing the dessert, which is much more like a cake than a pie in composition, over 150 years ago, and still serves it up today to hungry locals and visitors alike. Little Debbie's Boston Creme Rolls were a handheld variation on the treat that satiated sweet tooths no matter how far you were from Beantown, but now, they are gone — and the internet is not happy at all. To be honest, neither are we!

A Change.org petition entitled "Bring Back Little Debbie's Boston Creme Rolls!" boasts just south of 1,000 signatures, but it has inspired big feelings from responders. "Talking about a blow to the stomach, I feel like I lost a really good friend type of feeling," one commenter lamented. Elsewhere on social media, others expressed similar woeful feelings. "I learned that Boston Creme Rolls have been discontinued. Now I'm a sad panda," an X user claimed. Not content with sitting around feeling sorry for their loss, a Redditor urged action. "I email them every couple months and ask them to bring them back," they claimed. We admire this level of commitment to the cause — you have to be the change you want to see in the world, right? 

Interestingly, Little Debbie's competitor Drake's does offer Boston Creme Yodels, but these have poor reviews and complaints alleging a chemical aftertaste. Some folks have claimed that Little Debbie's own Swiss Rolls might scratch the same itch for a rolled cake, but with triple chocolate instead of yellow cake and vanilla cream. Not only is this patently not the same treat, but Little Debbie's snacks have been discontinued in Canada, leaving our friends in the Great White North in the cold. It seems that, for now, we have to make do with being bereft of Boston Creme Rolls, as terrible as that reality may be.