The Good: Tastes great, Easy-to-make, Not the worst sweet in the world.
The Bad: Expensive when it is in season
The Basics: Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix is an easy-to-use cookie mix that yields good cookies, though it requires more than just what is in the box!
It has been a while since I got in the mood to bake anything. Truth be told, when it comes to cookie baking, it is such a rare thing for me to bake. Instead, more often than not, I just like the cookie dough. So, instead of baking something up like the Pillsbury Premium Chocolate Peppermint Cookies (reviewed here!) I reviewed last year, I went this year with a product that leapt right out at me while at the store: Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.
The prepackaged cookie dough has all I really love: mint, chocolate and doughy goodness! Despite what the directions say about the Limited Edition Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, it is hard not to enjoy this in dough form and I have noticed absolutely no problems with consuming it that way. Baked up, the Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies are delightful; soft and minty and fun.
Basics
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is a premade cookie dough that comes in the refrigerated food section. The mix comes in a 16 oz. plastic package on a cardboard tray that yields twenty-four cookies. The Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip cookies are a soft chocolate chip cookie with chocolate chips that have peppermint swirls in the chips!
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is a limited edition flavor of Nestle Toll House cookie dough. At $2.49 a package in the prepared food section, the package contains blocks of cookie dough – arranged six by four. The 1” x 1” by 3/4" tall blocks of cookie dough easily separate along the seams to make up the Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Ease Of Preparation
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is exceptionally easy to transform into delicious, premium chocolate chip cookies. The package has dough that separates easily from each piece.
After preheating your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, simply place the separated Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough blocks on an ungreased cookie sheet (though I found it helped to grease the sheet anyway). The cookies take 11 – 12 minutes to bake.
Taste
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough does not have a strong scent. The dough tastes sweet – not overly floury – with a very minty flavor from the chips that spreads into the dough. They have almost no chocolate flavor to them.
On their own, Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and smell delightfully light and pepperminty. While they are soft and chewy, the cookies themselves are more dry than sweet. The mint flavor dominates the chips, with almost no hint of chocolate in them.
Nutrition
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix and the subsequent cookies are sweet snacks, not anything intended to be overly nutritious. The Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies are made primarily of enriched wheat flour, sugar, and Nestle Toll House Morsels. I was actually surprised by how there was nothing in the ingredients list that I was unable to pronounce! These cookies are made with actual ingredients, as opposed to chemicals and preservatives, which puts Nestle Toll House above several of its competitors.
A serving of Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies is a single cookie (there are 24 servings per mix) and that has 90 calories, forty of which comes from fat. The 2 grams of saturated fat in each serving represents eleven percent of one’s RDA of saturated fat. The egg in the cookies adds some cholesterol (5 mg or 2% RDA) and there are 70 milligrams of Sodium per serving. Even so, the prepared cookies have a smattering of iron, but no other real nutrients.
Storage/Clean-Up
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough comes nicely sealed in plastic, but because it includes eggs, it must be refrigerated. The grocery store where we bought the Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough only got in one batch, so it is unsurprising that the package we bought in mid-November, had an expiration date of February 5, 2013! That makes it stable and usable for a limited amount of time.
Overall
The Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookies are good, but I think Nestle would have done better with a chocolate cookie dough to bring out the chocolate flavor one might want from a chocolate chip cookie. These are good and enjoyable as a cookie, though the cookie dough is sweeter than the cookies.
For other limited edition seasonal foods, please visit my reviews of:
Cap’N Crunch’s Christmas Crunch
Edy’s Egg Nog Ice Cream
Cadbury Screme Egg
6/10
For other food reviews, please visit my index page on the subject by clicking here!
© 2012 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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