Cookie Review: Vegan Chocolate Chip — Trader Joe’s
Ok, so we went over Trader Joe’s Chocolate Chunk Cookie. How does their vegan chocolate chip compare?
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies - Trader Joe's
In a few words: it falls short. Their vegan cookies are in white paper bags to differentiate them from their non-vegan counterparts which are in brown paper bags (see previous blog post linked above), possibly to indicate purity… but I’d rather not be a Puritan.
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie - Trader Joe's
As you can see in this picture, the 135-calorie non-dairied and non-egged cookie is slightly smaller than the palm of my hand. Also visible in this picture is the grainy texture; it was a bit dry and crumbly, but not hard. The taste was lacking in some ways: no smooth flavor to go down nicely. Bland even. The chocolate chip + some nuts in every bite helped spice up the flavor some. But not enough.
- Taste: 5
- Crust and center moistness: dry, crumbly, soft
- Value: around $4 or so for 11 small-ish cookies, $0.37 / cookie. 7
- Overall: This is one cookie not to have in your cookie jar. 6. Stick to their Trader Joe’s Chocolate Chunk Cookie. But, I reiterate, if you gotta go vegan, do Michelle’s Naturally Vegan Chokolada Chip Cookies.
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How would you make a vegan cookie moist?!?! No dairy or eggs! Craziness
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admin Replies:
August 27th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I know, right?! At least in Michelle’s Naturally Vegan cookies, I suspect the fruit juice sweetener and oil blend make her cookies moist.
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idk but i personally liked it!
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Chloe Replies:
February 18th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Thanks for the feedback Mauricia!! Let me know what other cookies you like
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Call it difference of opinion, but I think these cookies taste better than any non-vegan cookies and lots of my friends have said the same. They’re so good that I get upset when the store doesn’t have them and it actually encourages me to get to the store earlier so they won’t be sold out.
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I actually love these cookies! Texture, taste, everything. Yummy, yummy, yummy. They may have changed their recipe since 2009 or something because the cookies I’m getting are bigger and have more chocolate chunks than those pictured.
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Chloe Replies:
April 7th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
with the amount of positive reviews, I think I need to try these again!!
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i do not eat cookies often but gave into temptation a few months ago i bought these. And loved them, until i read they contain palm oil. There is nothing vegan about palm oil. For vegans who are unaware of the 200 orangutans who have died recently by the burning of the rain forests to plant palm oil plantations, do some research. i and orangutans and other wild life who depend on the rain forests can live without palm oil. ♥
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Chloe Replies:
April 7th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Nan Sea Love, thanks for the info — I had no idea!
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