Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Trader Joe's Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies


I couldn't tell, with any degree of confidence, exactly what I was buying here, based on the photos and description on the front of the box. But it said "chocolate" and "cookies," and I decided it was worth a go.

Imagine a small but otherwise ordinary chocolate chip cookie. Now imagine a second one. Now imagine putting them together, bottom to bottom, glued in place by a thin layer of chocolate. That's what we've got here.

Which could be great, if the cookies were great. But they're not. They're run-of-the-mill industrial cookies--lower quality than, say, Chips Ahoy. So the result is thoroughly mediocre. I'll finish off the box, no doubt, but with only modest enjoyment, not with any real enthusiasm.


Will I buy it again? 

Nope. With almost zero work, I can instead buy pre-made, refrigerated chocolate-chip cookie dough and wind up with cookies that are ten times better than these. When I'm lucky enough that somebody with actual baking skill makes me some, they're a hundred times better.

3 comments:

  1. I don't recall seeing those, they sound kinda terrible!
    I like the plastic bins of mini cookies (chocolate chunk or oatmeal) and have been known to use some peanut butter or nutella to glue two together as a cookie sandwich. Even better when dunked since those cookies are super crunchy.
    Ttrockwood

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    1. I don't know what this person is talking about. My family loved them.

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  2. These were excellent cookies. I loved the. I then gave my sister and mother some and they loved them too. Not sure why the blogger didn't like them...

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