Organic Vegan Cuisine. I heart Real Food Daily, both the ones in West Hollywood and Santa Monica. Yesterday, my stunningly handsome date took me to the one in West Hollywood (is northish La Cienega considered WeHo?) where he got the TV Dinner and I was craving noodles so I got the Soba Noodle dish. I couldn’t wait to chow down on one of the HUGE cookies they have in the front! Their bakery is in Santa Monica and mine came wrapped in plastic:

Chocolate Chip Cookie -- Real Food Daily

After seeing that his IPA beer bottle still had some beer in it, I made a deal: I’d sit there and wait for him to finish while I indulged in my vegan cookie. (You’ll remember that I had another vegan cookie earlier, Michelle’s Naturally Vegan, and the review is here.) As shown above, I was not kidding when I said the cookie is HUGE! The thickness is about the same size as a regular cookie. When I bit into it, my very first reaction was, “whoa…that tastes different…” It’s much more granular and crumbly than a regular cookie. Smells just like a regular cookie, looks just like a regular cookie, …the taste took a bit of getting used to. My date compared it to chalk. It is dry, grainy, WAY WAY WAY not enough chocolate chips. There’s no real “bite” or “crunch” to the cookie. There were many times when I bit into the cookie that I had NO chocolate chips, and I’m a huge proponent of having at least a chocolate chip in every bite. I ate some more this morning in the car and left the cookie in the sun for a bit; I think it would have tasted better warm as it provided some moisture.

I found out that besides lacking dairy and eggs, this cookie has buckwheat flour and agave in replacement of sugar. The agave does a good job in sweetening up the cookie. I’ve tasted sweeter and I might have actually preferred even sweeter to get over the buckwheat flour taste. The only time I’ve had buckwheat flour was in soba noodles (coincidentally, my meal for the night!!) and it tastes NOTHING like the taste of the noodles. I still have some left actually. …I don’t think I’ll finish it. This can pass as a cookie, but that’s all I’m gonna say about it.

• Taste: 5
• Crust and center moistness: dry and grainy
• Value: $3.25 for an organic vegan cookie the size of my hand. Considering the size, organic veganness of it and how rare it is to find a vegan cookie, it’s a pretty good value. Considering taste, it’s much overpriced.
• Overall: PASS. Michelle’s Naturally Vegan cookies still reigns supreme in my book for vegan cookies. Go to Real Food Daily for the food, not the cookies; if you want dessert, I HIGHLY suggest the brownies; it’s DELICIOUS!! Overall I’ll give the cookies here a 4.