WOW! It’s been a while. I’ll tell you the truth: I got hit by a car two weeks ago, and I’ve been busy ever since! BUT! I made up my mind NOT to let it get in the way of letting the world know what great cookies there are out there. Boy do I have a juicy one for you here today!

I didn’t know this until I went to the aisle, but Nestle makes refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough with filling (caramel or chocolate). The one that I chose was the caramel filled chocolate chip cookie, because I LOVE caramel. Two of my favorite candies are Caramello and Twix, so I felt that the combination of caramel and chocolate and COOKIE would be DIVINE.

So you eagerly tear open the package and place the rounds on a sheet, bake at the instructed oven temperature for the designated time. I found that I had to add about 50% of the time to my baking time (almost 20 minutes), but of course your oven may vary.

Perfect for halftime during a USC football game (specifically, when USC killed Cal a few weeks ago teehee):

Everyone was wondering what the gooooooooooood smell was — already a great start! I eagerly and selfishly broke apart one cookie for me to see the inside:

I was honestly a little disappointed to see that there wasn’t as much caramel in there as I thought there would / should be. The cookies are signature Nestle: soft, moist, chewy, enough chocolate. The caramel filling was just ok for me, but still, it’s a really good twist on an otherwise “normal” cookie. Everyone loved them and they were gone way before the game was over!

• Taste: 8
• Crust and center moistness: moist all around, especially due to the hot caramel filling. too bad I can’t say how it is the day after, though; it’d be interesting to see how the cookies held up overnight.
• Value: a dozen regular-sized cookies from refrigerated cookie dough on sale for $3.50, when it’s normally around $4 or $4.50. good deal, especially since it’s on par with other Nestle cookie doughs and these in particular look so appetizing!
• Overall: It WILL please a crowd but if I were to buy a cookie dough just for myself, I’d go with the regular kind just because these weren’t THAT much better. I can’t figure out if it’s because there wasn’t enough caramel or because it was sweet+sweet? Glad to have tried them though. I’d definitely buy them again for a party, and in that scenario, I’d give them an 8; for myself, 7.