Tara from Javabites introduced me to her coffee cookies! When I went on the site to find out more information, I learned that Javabites is all about the glorious combination of cookies and coffee (well that was after gasping at the city where she’s from: LOVELAND, CO!! To be honest, Tara, this set the bar high for me. How can cookies from a city called LOVELAND be bad??). She invited me to dip my cookies in milk or coffee if I wanted, so when I received the box, Armando and I went to TJ’s specifically to get cow’s milk (he absolutely REFUSED to eat his cookies with the almond milk I bought him. *sigh* At least he agreed to getting milk from cows that are not treated with rBST so I guess we kind of met in the middle.)

I have to apologize now: my point and shoot takes horrible grainy pictures no matter what I put the ISO to, and my cellphone takes awful pictures in artificial light, so these pictures don’t at all do these cookies justice.

The first thing I took out was the cutest package! It was a box of cookies in the shape of a java mug!

You can actually hold the box by the handle but I couldn’t play with it for any longer because Armando was passively aggressively trying to get at the contents. There were 12 cookies total in here: 6 packages of 2 each!

So, they are a bit on the small side individually, but remember that there are TWO of them, and they BOTH total about 100 calories. Ok now that the cookies are out of the packages, let me walk you through the process of eating cookies as depicted by Armando.

1. First, grabby grabby

2. Then dippy dippy

3. Dipped cookie goes into mouf

4. If you want, you’re free to drink the cow’s milk sans rBST. The great news: The cookie doesn’t disintegrate in the milk! Sorry, I know this is a total crotch shot…

5. Steal gf’s cookies.

Wait, what??

So Armando does this thing where he goes, “hey honey, aren’t you going to finish your quesadilla?” because he wants it. Shortly after we finished our cookies, Armando went back to the table and started going through the box again and asked “the” question: Hey honey, aren’t you going to eat the rest of your cookies? (This picture is horrible because I had to catch him in secrecy. I caught him red-handed!)

The other four packages of cookies in the box were:

When I read about these cookies online, I thought that the coffee was in the cookie via liquid form and mixed into the liquid half of the dough. If you look closely at the cookie, you’ll see that actual pieces of coffee bean are part of the cookie. You can make out some black specs in the cookie above, but it’s clearer to see in the white chocolate vanilla latte:

And the cross midsection of this cookie shows that the bean specs are not just drizzled on top:

which to me is actually way cooler than simply making coffee and mixing that into the dough. Here’s cinnamon cappuccino:

And my personal favorite, white chocolate mocha latte:

The first thing I noticed about these cookies are very crunchy. This was unpleasant to me at first, but on the other hand, this contributed to the lack of gross soggy crumbs in Armando’s milk. In terms of taste, the amount of coffee flavor is matched perfectly with the rest of the flavors. Well I think the cinnamon cappuccino could have used some more cinnamon. What I love about these cookies is that Javabites doesn’t skimp on the other flavors. In the cut of the white chocolate mocha latte you see 5 white chocolate chips already. I also need to mention that the smell of the cookies once you open the package is incredible. The white chocolate mocha latte smelled the strongest which is one of the reasons it’s my favorite. AAAAAAAAAND, all the ingredients are simple, like.. things you can pronounce and are familiar with:

I would rank these cookies in this order:

1. White choc mocha latte
2. White choc vanilla latte
3. Almond mocha
4. Chocolate chip
5. Cinnamon cappuccino

ALERT: She’s creating new flavs!

• Taste: 7
• Crust and center moistness: Crunchy cookies, which mean crumbly, but it’s great for dipping into milk and coffee
• Value: $5 – $5.38 for a box of 12 on Amazon right now — that’s a really good deal! I only wish you didn’t have to buy in a pack of 4 boxes or 48 cookies.
• Overall: I love the idea of putting the espresso bean bits into cookies like this. I would personally prefer it if these cookies were softer, but I am loving the fact that the ingredients are real, whole, and sans hydrogenated oil. They really cure the sweet tooth for about 100 calories!!! 8

Javabites
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