Oreo is giving its fans a pretty unusual job this fall: taste three brand-new cookies and decide which one deserves to come back in 2027.
The new Oreo flavors are Banana Pudding, Deep Fried, and Chicken & Waffles—three limited-edition cookies that take inspiration from desserts, fairground treats, and a sweet-and-savory brunch favorite.
And yes, Chicken & Waffles Oreo is exactly as unexpected as it sounds.
All three flavors will be available for a limited time in the U.S., with online presales beginning August 17 and nationwide retail availability starting August 24. Fans can then vote for their favorite, with the winning flavor returning in 2027.
What Are the New Oreo Flavors?
This year’s Oreo flavor lineup is less about simply adding another chocolate or vanilla variation and more about turning familiar foods into sandwich cookies.
Here’s what Oreo is putting on the flavor battlefield:
- Banana Pudding Oreo
- Deep Fried Oreo
- Chicken & Waffles Oreo
Each one has a completely different flavor idea behind it, which should make the eventual fan vote pretty interesting.
Banana Pudding Oreo
If you already love banana pudding, this might be the least surprising—and potentially the easiest—new Oreo flavor to understand.
Banana Pudding Oreo combines banana and vanilla pudding-inspired crème between two vanilla wafer-style cookies.
Instead of the traditional chocolate Oreo cookie, this version is designed to resemble the vanilla wafers commonly associated with banana pudding. The filling uses separate banana and vanilla pudding flavor notes to create the familiar dessert combination.
And honestly, this one makes a lot of sense.
Banana pudding already has the basic ingredients for a great cookie flavor: creamy vanilla, sweet banana, and crisp vanilla wafers. Oreo is basically taking that combination and putting it into its own format.
What Does Banana Pudding Oreo Taste Like?
Expect this one to be sweet, creamy, and strongly banana-forward, with the vanilla cookie helping keep the banana flavor from becoming too heavy.
If you’re the kind of person who thinks artificial banana flavor is delicious rather than suspicious, this could easily become your favorite of the three.
Deep Fried Oreo
Then things get weird.
Deep Fried Oreo is essentially Oreo imagining what a deep-fried cookie would taste like—and turning that idea into another cookie.
The outer cookies have a fried-dough flavor, while the filling combines dark chocolate and fried-dough flavors. The result is designed to capture the taste of the classic fairground deep-fried treat without actually putting a battered Oreo in the package.
That’s an important distinction because, no, these aren’t literally deep-fried Oreos sitting inside the package.
Instead, Oreo is using different flavor components to recreate that experience.
What Does Deep Fried Oreo Taste Like?
The big question is whether the fried-dough flavor will taste more like a carnival funnel cake or simply like a sweeter Golden Oreo.
The dark chocolate component could make this one especially interesting because it gives the cookie a richer flavor underneath the fried-dough notes.
Of the three new Oreo flavors, this is probably the one that sounds the most like a dessert experiment.
Chicken & Waffles Oreo
And now we arrive at the cookie that is going to make people stop scrolling.
Chicken & Waffles Oreo is a sweet-and-savory cookie inspired by the classic brunch combination.
The cookies have a waffle-style embossing, while the dual-layer crème combines fried chicken and maple syrup flavors. Oreo describes it as its first sweet-and-savory cookie of this kind.
Yes.
Fried chicken-flavored Oreo crème.
Before anyone panics, the idea isn’t to turn an Oreo into an actual piece of chicken. The flavor is designed to recreate the combination of savory fried chicken and sweet maple syrup that makes chicken and waffles such a popular pairing.
What Does Chicken & Waffles Oreo Taste Like?
This is the wild card.
The maple element gives the cookie a familiar sweetness, while the fried-chicken flavor adds the savory side. The waffle-inspired cookie is supposed to tie those two flavors together.
It might sound completely ridiculous on paper.
But that’s also exactly why people are going to want to try it.
Oreo has experimented with plenty of unusual flavors before, and this one feels designed to create a reaction. Whether that reaction is “I need another one” or “Why does my cookie taste like brunch?” remains to be seen.
When Can You Buy the New Oreo Flavors?
The new Oreo flavors are launching in stages.
August 17: Online presale begins through Oreo’s website, with availability also planned through SnackWorks’ TikTok Shop storefront.
August 24: Banana Pudding, Deep Fried, and Chicken & Waffles Oreos begin rolling out at retailers across the U.S.
All three are limited-edition flavors, so they won’t simply become another permanent option sitting in the cookie aisle.
How Does the Oreo Fan Vote Work?
This is where the launch gets more interesting.
Instead of simply releasing three limited-time flavors and moving on to the next Oreo experiment, the brand is asking customers to decide which one should return.
Fans can vote for their favorite beginning August 17 through October 12.
The vote can be accessed through the campaign website, and Oreo is also placing a QR code on the limited-edition packages so customers can vote after trying the cookies. Voters are also entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win a year’s supply of original Oreos.
Then comes the final decision.
On October 13, Oreo will announce which flavor won and will bring that flavor back in 2027.
Which New Oreo Flavor Should Win?
That’s going to depend heavily on what kind of cookie eater you are.
Banana Pudding is the safest choice for people who love classic desserts and creamy banana flavor.
Deep Fried is for anyone who sees a carnival-inspired cookie and thinks, “Yep, I’ll try that.”
Chicken & Waffles is the adventurous option—the one most likely to divide the room but also the one people will be talking about.
And that’s probably exactly what Oreo wants.
Rather than creating three slightly different versions of the same cookie, the brand has made the choices dramatically different. There’s a dessert-inspired option, a fair-food-inspired option, and a sweet-and-savory option.
That makes the fan vote much more fun.
The New Oreo Flavor Battle Is Officially On
Oreo has never been particularly afraid of unusual flavor combinations, but this year’s lineup takes that idea in three very different directions.
Banana Pudding brings a familiar dessert into cookie form.
Deep Fried tries to capture the flavor of a classic fairground treat.
And Chicken & Waffles takes a beloved sweet-and-savory meal and turns it into an Oreo.
All three will have their moment on shelves this fall. But only one gets to come back in 2027.
So when the new Oreo flavors hit stores, the real question won’t be whether you’re brave enough to try them.
It’ll be:
Which one deserves another year?
