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I hate how much I genuinely liked this stupid pie. The limited edition Baja Blast Pie is one of the most ridiculous menu stunts Taco Bell has ever pulled. But like your crazy friend at a party in high school, it somehow landed a backflip off the roof and into the pool. It was very cool that they pulled it off. Please never try to do anything like this again. Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie | Review The Baja Blast Pie is more like a key lime pie that has some Mountain Dew vibes to it. The construction is quite simple. It’s a crisp, chilled graham cracker crust, a thick layer of set lime-ish filling and a ring of whipped cream. The whole thing came plastic-wrapped in a sealed box. So it’s pretty clear this is put together off-site. Taco Bell has been dangling the prospect of this highlighter-teal puddle of nuclear waste in a pie crust for over a year now. It was first teased at Taco Bell’s 2024 news event, Live Más Live (not to be confused with MassLive). The concept is a key lime-style pie that, through some ritual of dark alchemy, tastes like Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Then it vanished into the shadows for months, lurking like Mountain Dew Voldemort. Apparently, it finally got enough unicorn blood or whatever to be revived from whatever crunchwrap horcrux it was hiding in. The end result was Taco Bell declaring out of nowhere that the pie was real and dropping the next day. Taco Bell didn’t announce this like a dessert. They announced it like a hurricane: “Board your windows. Find your nearest evacuation route. A category 5 Baja Blast Pie is coming to your area.” Oh, by the way, you can only purchase an entire pie, no slices-only, for $19.99 while supplies last — and they won’t last long. What does it taste like? The pie opens with a vigorous thrust of lime flavor. For a moment, you forget that this is an insane Mountain Dew-flavored stunt. But after a moment, the Baja Blast flavor moves in, casting a familiar haze of late-night fast food adventures. I’m legitimately surprised by how well-put together this pie is. I fully expected it to be a train wreck. It’s like that same friend from high school you see starting a business in your hometown. You think, “What the heck are they doing?” Then all of a sudden they have a nice house, three kids and they’re doing a ribbon cutting for a new community center. I didn’t expect this from you, Taco Bell, but you pulled it off anyway. So is it any good? Believe it or not, yes, this pie tastes pretty darn good. It’s a well-balanced punch of flavor. You get the tartness of the lime as well as the sweetness of the Baja Blast. If I were Paul Hollywood on “The Great British Baking Show,” I’d be tempted to give a handshake. But I’d probably do one of those little fake-outs and leave Taco Bell hanging. I don’t know if I want to live in a world where Taco Bell gets Star Baker. The final word By the time you see this article — or even a post about the pie on social media — there’s a good chance they’ll be sold out. It looks like each Taco Bell location only got 12 pies. It’s likely they’ll sell out quickly. It’s a shame. I think this could be a really cool dessert if they stuck to their guns. Obviously, $19.99 for an entire pie isn’t really feasible. But if they had $7 mini pies for sale, I think that would do really well. Oh no, did I just encourage Taco Bell to do another backflip off of the roof? --- Want more “I Ate It” food coverage? You can follow Nick on Instagram (@NickAteIt) and TikTok (also @NickAteIt) “I ate it so you don’t have to” is a regular food column about off-beat eats, both good and bad. I picked the name years ago and now we’re sort of stuck with it. You can send any praise/food suggestions to nomalley@masslive.com. Please send all criticisms and complaints to mperri@masslive.com . You can check out the rest of the series here.
