Dunkaroos were the ’90s snack pack that paired small cookies with a tub of frosting for dipping. The snack was discontinued in 2012 and later brought back, though I have my doubts that the relaunch matches what I remember. DVNK by Cookie King is an e-liquid built around that same cookie-and-frosting idea, and this review covers how close it gets.
Where DVNK sits in the lineup
Cookie King makes three cookie flavors, and DVNK is the second of them I have vaped. The brand belongs to DripMore, the company behind Candy King, Tropic King and Milk King, along with menthol and nic-salt versions of those lines. I reviewed Choco Cream a few weeks before this one, which leaves Lemon Wafer as the last Cookie King flavor still to cover.
How it tastes
DripMore describes the flavor in very few words: graham cracker and vanilla. I like vanilla e-liquids, so I went in hopeful.
On the inhale the vapor is warm and sweet, and the cookie note is faint. Most of the flavor arrives on the exhale. The graham cracker comes across as sweet and buttery, close to a thin, crisp cracker, and the vanilla shows up at the very end as a bold, creamy note that reminded me of sticky frosting. What lingers afterward is smooth, sweet and clearly cookie. The cloud itself smells of vanilla, and the throat hit is smooth, with no burn or harshness.
Several people I shared it with said the Dunkaroo cookie flavor was accurate. I emptied three tanks in two days, and across that time the taste did not fade, turn dull or lose its sweetness. Nothing about it struck me as artificial or too heavy, and the two notes stayed in balance. For me it works as an all-day flavor.
Filling the tank
Cookie King uses 100mL chubby gorilla bottles with a childproof cap. The cap came off without trouble and the narrow tip made filling tidy, though squeezing too hard can overflow a tank, which has happened to me before. The liquid is thinner than I expected from a dessert flavor and moves freely in the bottle. It has a reddish yellow tint that looks a little lighter once it is in the tank, and it did not look thick enough to gum up coils or scorch the cotton.
Straight from the bottle it smells of crisp graham cracker with vanilla underneath. It smells good enough to make you want to taste it, but swallowing e-liquid can be extremely dangerous, so smelling it is as far as that goes.
The bottle and label
The label is yellow and shows a cheering crowd watching a frosted, sprinkled cookie get dunked through a basketball net. The Cookie King logo sits on the front above the flavor name, the two o’s in “cookie” are drawn as chocolate chip cookies, and a baker’s hat tops the word.
- Front: very small print gives the bottle size (100mL) and states that the liquid is for vaping and is not food. It also calls the liquid fruit-flavored, which is odd for a cookie flavor. The same wording appears on the company website, so it may be generic text nobody corrected.
- Bottom banner: a large warning that the product contains nicotine and that nicotine is an addictive chemical.
- Left side: ingredients, warnings, sale and age restrictions, and the nicotine strength (3MG) in large red and white type. The 70/30 VG/PG ratio appears only inside the ingredient list, and I would have preferred it printed more prominently.
- Right side: allergy warnings, age restrictions, a warning not to ingest the product, and Poison Control information.
- Bottom edge: the #DRIPMORE hashtag, the Dripmore website and manufacturing details.
- Base of the bottle: expiration date and batch number, stamped in bold and slightly smudged.
Verdict
DVNK is now one of the dessert liquids I rate most highly. It is smooth and creamy, the graham cracker and vanilla are well balanced, the label is inventive, and the flavor stayed strong and sweet through back-to-back refills over several days. I give it 10 out of 10, and I would point anyone who liked the childhood snack toward it.