I’ve been meaning to get on the 100-calorie packs of cookies for a while. I grew up on Keebler Fudge Shoppe Fudge Stripes, putting 5 on my 5 fingers and eating them that way. Makes for chocolatey fingers after a while, but hey.. they are SO GOOD! This one here is the 100-calorie Right Bites pack:

As you can see there are 6 packs in here. They look like this:

There are about 10 of these cookies inside the bag:

Aren’t they SO CUTE! Mini fudge stripes! They had to change the texture up a little bit probably because they’re so small:

I’ll be honest — I was a bit weary when buying them. That’s because I have eaten the 100-calorie Right Bites packs of Chips Deluxe Chocolate Chip, and that tasted really bad. A pleasant surprise these had in store for me!! They taste EXACTLY like their larger counterparts. They’re a really good crunchy, chocolatey, sweet, convenient, pop-in-your-mouth treat. Wish I could put them on the tips of my fingers but… maybe babies can

• Taste: 10
• Crust and center moistness: outside is crunchy. inside is.. nonexistent. cuz there’s a hole in the middle!
• Value: 6 packets for about $3.50; the regular-sized cookies are about the same price and have about 30 cookies in them. 2 regular-sized cookies would almost be the equivalent of 1 packet, according to the calorie count. Obviously, the regular-sized ones that come in a tray is a WAY better deal for your money, but if you like the convenience I think $3.50 for 100-calorie packs is on the average. I’d rather buy the tray and use storage containers or even ziplock bags.
• Overall: These cookies are classic cookies made into a watch-your-weight-but-still-eat-what-you-want form (except I’m one of those people who go hey! only 100 calories! That means I can eat TWO packs!). Nicely portioned out for you and taste GREAT!! I give it a 10 as I would 100% spend money on them again.

YUM!

Doesn’t that look delicious!!! Now that the whole Nestle cookie dough / E. coli thing is over (er, except for a select few people) Nestle has put their cookie dough back on the shelves with new labeling that clearly states that it is a New batch and not to consume raw cookie dough in bold letters:

^ Cookie dough that I am not supposed to consume raw

This is one of the easy ones where you just break the dough up into pieces:

And they weren’t kidding when they said JUMBO on the package.

The package said bake the dough in a 325-degree oven for 16-18 minutes, but I had to leave them in there for about 22 minutes, specifically because I did *not* want to consume raw cookie dough!! But the wait (impatient as I was, and everyone who knows me knows that I am NOT patient) was worth it!

Out of the oven golden brown and delicious and onto the rack. I know the whole appeal of getting the break-apart-and-bake cookies is ease, quickness and simplicity, but as you can see above, there are hard lines in the cookies. I would suggest that you round out the bricks of dough a little bit to achieve that “home baked” look; otherwise, it looks like you wanted square cookies. That, my friends, is something you will have to achieve another way. Except that I got lucky with our friend up there in the middle row, on the left, that’s a pretty square cookie. Well, so am I. Moving on.

Nestle is almost synomous with home baking. The chocolate chips are what they’re known for, and that alone is good enough for me to trust any recipe they put out. I wouldn’t have expected anything but near greatness from them. And that is what I got. I eagerly broke a cookie in half (come on, I’m on a diet, and one of these JUMBO cookies has 180 calories!) and bit into the cookie to find a crispy outside and a soft center. The cookie had a nice crunchy crust on the outside and as you can see from the photos there are plenty of their famous chocolate chips in each bite. Buttery, soft, flavorful… what else could anyone want in life?!

• Taste: 10
• Crust and center moistness: moist all around. crispy exterior, soft interior.
• Value: 12 cookies for $4.49, on sale for $3.50. You could definitely make these smaller though and still have good-sized cookies. and there would be more of them!
• Overall: It’s easy to make and tastes GREAT. I’d buy if I had no time to make my own. 10!

WOOO!! The holidays are over, and I can finally get back on track with everything. Work, working out (er…maybe), sleeping and most importantly, blogging about COOKIES!

So i’m not exactly done with PF cookies. I got some as a gift! YUMMY! And it’s actually one I’ve never tried before — PF Soft-Baked Choc Chip!

I don’t usually like soft cookies. I like crunchy (I am the one who calls for the outsides of banana bread, the corner of brownies..) but I actually liked these! They weren’t just soft, but they were  moist and smooth. The big chocolate chunks were a great choice over regular chocolate chips simply because the cookies themselves are pretty big. Good taste overall, and not overwhelmingly buttery.

• Taste: 8
• Crust moistness: soft
• Center moistness: soft
• Value: we know how this goes — on sale at $3 for a pack of 8 of medium-sized cookies is a bargain at $0.38 a cookie
• Overall: a definite chocolate chip cookie craving saver, I would buy it again. 9

Okay, so they were on sale at Ralphs!

I got the Snickerdoodles:

So I had a craving for some cinnamon sugar. Sue me.

I couldn’t even wait until I got home to open the bag (hey, I just did 35 minutes of cardio!) and eagerly bit into the self-proclaimed soft baked cookie. I suppose there is a difference between soft cookie and soft baked? Not to say that these were crunchy, but they were harder than I expected. I’ll have to be honest, it was a little disappointing. Not enough cinnamon, a bit too much sugar and much too hard. Have you ever picked up a glass of what you thought was Coke and took a sip only to find out it was Sprite (or even more surprising, water)? Okay, maybe it wasn’t that drastic of a surprise, but I expected better. I’ll have to stick to my normal chocolate chip mac and white choc mac, BUT, the Molasses cookie looks really good too…

If you get this cookie, I STRONGLY recommend you stick it in the microwave for about 8 seconds. It makes for a much softer cookie, and it tastes SO much better because it’s warm

I just have to open this up by saying that Pepperidge Farm cookies are *the* go-to supermarket consumer packaged good cookie for me. I packed a bag of these when I went to China, and thank goodness I did, because apparently these types of cookies are not an Asian thing (see post below about Chinese cookies).

They have several different varieties; I really like the Chocolate Chunk line (except the one with pecans in it — not a huge fan of any other nut besides macadamias in my cookies) and the next line I’m going to get into is the Soft Baked one. I haven’t tried the 100 Calorie packs yet though, I’d be interested in trying those too.

This review will be about the Chocolate Chunk Tahoe White Chocolate Macadamia cookies, since these saved me so badly when I was sans-”normal” cookies:

The cookies are on the large side, definitely; there’s 8 cookies in each bag.

I absolutely love the color on these cookies. Perfectly baked. AND, there’s the exact right amount of “toppings” in the cookies; every bite has more than one chip or nut so you get a mouthful of yumminess rather than a mouthful of just dough sometimes. Don’t think that these cookies are overly sweet though; the dough is not too sweet (just slightly buttery), which balances out the sweetness of the other components. The chocolate chunk ones are the crunchy ones, and believe me when I say to listen to the label. These are very crunchy, which do translate into crumbly, which leads to a mess on your shirt and your mouth (and the dining room floor). In addition, because these are so crunchy / crumbly, sometimes pieces break off that you didn’t bite into (I hope you have fast reflexes. Or don’t listen to the 5-second rule). Another slightly annoying thing about these cookies is that they (moreso than other cookies) leave a lot of cookie on your teeth so your tongue gets a good workout. Other than that, these cookies have a great flavor and aren’t too dry. Pepperidge Farm is also the only brand I can think of that make milk chocolate macadamia nut cookies too, so they definitely get points from me regarding that.

• Taste: 10
• Crust crunchiness: 10 for very crunchy
• Center crunchiness: 10 for very crunchy
• Value: when they’re on sale at Ralphs for $2.50 or $3, 10; remember, there’s 8 cookies in this bag! They’re normally $4 or $5, and I’m cheap, and I don’t buy them unless they’re on sale.
• Overall: 10, for being my go-to grocery store cookie

Check out Pepperidge Farm’s other cookies here.

Was craving a cookie when I opened the pantry hoping to find some. I personally don’t keep any cookies in the house, just because I know they’ll be gone within a day, so I was kind of taking a longshot. But lo and behold, there were two cookies individually wrapped peeking out from behind some sauce bottles on the third shelf! Thanks Meg.

I grabbed one, tore into the wrapper and broke off a piece. It is very soft, but not crumbly. In fact, it’s soft all around; the middle and the crust have almost the same consistency. It was actually better than I expected; I’m not a huge fan of the Chips Ahoy original cookies in the blue packaging. It wasn’t sweeter, but it tasted better, probably due to the fact that it wasn’t so hard (like the Chips Ahoy originals) and the medium-sized soft chocolate chunks complemented the rest of the cookie very well. For a packaged cookie the taste was pretty good. The size of the cookie was great for a snack; it was bigger than their regular cookies, but not so big that it made me feel guilty. And, another great thing is that it is moist enough that you milk drinkers won’t need a glass of milk with it. It’s thick, medium – big and moist; however, if I were to choose any packaged cookie, I would take Mrs. Field’s over this one if it was not that much more expensive because the Mrs. Field’s cookies’ chocolate chips taste better and there top of the cookie is a little more crunchy than the inside, which I like.

Location: Supermarkets
Website: http://www.nabiscoworld.com/Chipsahoy

Taste: 7
Center & Crust Moistness: soft all around
Value: ? Free for me, it was in my apartment..I haven’t found out how much it costs yet
Overall: 7