Costco Peaches & Cream Pastries Review
Author’s note: Not sponsored by Costco, as always. These are my own unbiased opinions.
The best kind of eerie.
I probably wouldn’t have bought these pastries from Costco if I hadn’t just had a great experience with their Peaches & Cream Bar Cake. The good news is, these butter pastries have an eerily similar filling to the cake. The best kind of eerie.
My favorite thing about these pastries is that they’re not overly sweet. And, if choosing between “cheese danish” and “fruit danish” makes you cry, dry those eyes! Because you get both here. It’s a butter pastry filled with peach jammy stuff AND a creamy filling.
Cheese filling
There’s a strip of peach filling on one side of the pastry, and a strip of the cheese concoction on the other side. I was surprised to see this “cream” filling is made from greek yogurt (and cream cheese, of course). It has a soft, very lightly sweetened, and slightly tangy taste. It sort of clumps together in fluffy curds. Yum.
Peach filling
But the peach filling really steals the show. It has a “marmalade” consistency, with tender chunks of peach suspended in a sweet, gelatinous mixture. Paddington Bear might even approve. The fruit flavor is full-bodied without tasting fake (even if it is). I liked the whiff of tartness from the real lemon juice. Just right. This is much better than my experience with the “fruit” filling in Costco’s Cherry Cheese Danish Braid.
I was, however, saddened to see artificial flavors and preservatives in the ingredients. More about that later.
Pastry dough
The butter-based dough strikes a good balance of crisp and soft. Like most Costco pastries, these have flakey, buttery layers all the way through. It’s more “danish” texture than anything else. But slightly croissant-like on the exterior.
(It’s a different texture from Aldi’s fruit strudels, if you’re curious.)
How big are they?
Size-wise, these are pretty generous. About 5 inches long. On my kitchen scale, they weigh around 4 ounces each. A whole breakfast. You could cut them in half, if you’re serving a brunch with other items.
Serving the pastries
Speaking of serving, I recommend letting them sit out on a plate until they reach room temperature before eating. The pastry exterior seems to crisp up a bit from the air, and the filling tastes better when not icy cold.
I also like these heated gently in a pan on the stove — the bottoms crisp nicely, without the filling becoming “molten.” You could also re-bake them for 3-5 minutes, just to give them a little more freshly-baked texture.
Ingredients in Costco Peaches & Cream Pastries
Here is my best attempt at typing out the ingredients, from the label:
- Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Vitamins [B3, B1, B2, B9], Iron)
- Peach Filling (Peaches, Sugar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Pectin, Natural Peach Flavor, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid [to promote color retention], Potassium Sorbate [Preservative])
- Butter (Cream)
- Cream Cheese & Greek Yogurt Filling (Cream Cheese [Milk, Cream, Skim Milk, Salt, Bacterial Culture, Gums {Locust Bean, Xanthan, Guar}], Greek Yogurt [Skim Milk, Bacterial Culture], Sugar, Eggs, Water, Modified Corn Starch, Glucono-Delta Lactone, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Natural Flavor)
- Water
- Yeast
- Sugar
- Less than 2%: Eggs, Partially Skimmed Milk (Milk, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3), Salt, Wheat Gluten, Dried Eggs, Nonfat Dry Milk, Soy Flour, Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Corn Syrup, Pectin, Citric Acid, Carrageenan, Xanthan Gum, Artificial Flavor, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Citrate, Sodium Metabisulphite, Sodium Phosphate, Paprika (Color).
While the butter impresses me, I am disappointed by some of this other stuff, like the preservatives and artificial flavors. Sodium Metabisulphite is especially disappointing, since I have a sulfite sensitivity.
Nutrition Facts
Do you wish Costco printed the Nutrition Facts on the bakery packages? So do I! But they don’t. Here’s what I dug up on the Costco Same-Day site: a serving is 1 pastry and contains 400 calories. You get 19 grams of fat (11 grams saturated fat) and 7 grams protein. There are 51 grams total carbohydrates, of which 24 grams are sugars (22 grams “added sugars”) and 1 gram is fiber. You get 17% your daily value sodium, 22% your daily value cholesterol, AND 10% your daily value iron per serving.
Price and Servings
The package of 8 pastries cost $11.99 at my local Costco warehouse. But I got mine on sale for $8.99. Since there are 8 servings per packages, each pastry would cost $1.50 at the regular price.
This is a “Kirkland Signature” (Costco store-brand) product, and the item # is: 2027211.
Shelf Life
The “sell by” date on my package was dated for 3 days after purchase. But mine lived in my refrigerator for about a week before I finished them. They were starting to get a little flabby at the end. Just like me.
Dramatic Conclusion
I don’t think you can go wrong with these, unless you hate peach flavor. And if that’s the case, why are you even reading this review?! Weirdo!
(Just kidding. I love you.)
Great texture and flavor. Easy to serve. Showstopping appearance. I am not thrilled by the ingredients. Still, I probably would buy these again.
(A package with a mix of fruit flavors would really crank my tractor, though. Just sayin.’)
My carefully calibrated Awesome-o-Meter rates these Peaches & Cream Pastries a solid “Yaaas.”
The End.
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