The Good: Taste wonderful, Generally good ingredients
The Bad: A little expensive for what they are
The Basics: Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies are a delightful new addition to the Chips Ahoy! line!
I am not a believer in signs and symbols that are divinely created in real life. I love symbology in literature, but I’m not one who subscribes to horoscopes or other hokum in reality. But, just over two weeks ago, my beloved cat Gollum died (his final meal is reviewed here!) and my wife and I went out to the grocery store to pick up our components for our Thanksgiving dinner that same day. While we were out at our local grocery store, I made an uncharacteristic trip down the cookie aisle. There, on the shelf and my eye level was a single package of Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies. There were several packages of three other flavors of Ice Cream Creations cookies, but only the one of the Mint Chocolate Chip. As one who absolutely loves virtually all things that are mint chocolate flavored, I allowed myself a moment of weakness, declared that this package of cookies was a sign for me and I bought them.
Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations flavored cookies are a soft chocolate chocolate chip cookie, that comes in a plastic tray in a resealable foil package. At $4.99 for eighteen cookies, these are much more of a splurge for me and I bought them entirely as comfort food. They certainly lived up on that front!
Basics
Nabisco has been around, pretty much forever, making cookies. The Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies are a new expansion to their classic Chips Ahoy! cookie line.
Each 15 gram Chips Ahoy! Cookie is a single round, soft cookie approximately 2 1/4” in diameter and 3/8” thick. Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations Cookies come in a 9.5 oz. package with eighteen cookies. The plastic tray does a decent job of preventing breakage. A serving of Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies is a pair of cookies.
Ease Of Preparation
Eating Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies is not a real challenge: simply open the package, pull out a cookie, and consume. When you have a cookie out, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or mysterious about eating these cookies.
Taste
The Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies smell only slightly of peppermint, though that is the dominant scent from each of the chocolate cookies. The aroma is inviting, but dissipates quickly once the package is open.
On the tongue, each Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations Cookie is a delightful blend of chocolate and mint. The slightly waxy, peppermint flavor of the embedded green white mint chocolate chips in the chocolate cookie dominates the flavor palate of the cookies. The chocolate cookies are well accented by the cool peppermint flavor. Given that these are moist cookies, the chocolate flavor endures and finishes the flavor off nicely. It’s like the mint opens the taste buds up for a more receptive flavor for the chocolate cookie portion.
These cookies leave one with a sweet aftertaste in the mouth, but not a dry sensation . . . which is nice, but only encourages one to eat more!
Nutrition
Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. A pair of these cookies makes for a full 30 gram serving and they are not at overly nutritious. Made primarily of unbleached enriched flour, high fructose corn syrup and sugar, this is not an all-natural food product. These cookies were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about milk, soy, and wheat.
Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies have a substantive 140 calories for a single serving, 50 of which are from fat. A serving represents 18% of one's RDA of saturated fat, though they are cholesterol free. As well, they are fairly low in sodium for a cookie, having only 90 mg (4% RDA) per serving. They have less than a gram of protein and six percent of the RDA of Iron . . . and no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish there had been at least a full gram of dietary fiber.
Storage/Cleanup
Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty short shelf life; we purchased ours two weeks ago and they have an expiration date of December 1, 2014. Even after I started to gorge on them and left them resealed, they did not get stale in that time. These soft cookies do not even generate crumbs when one consumes them!
Overall
Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies taste wonderful and are about as nutritious as most store-bought cookies, but could be a little less expensive to truly thrill consumers!
For other reviews of cookies, please check out:
Nestle Toll House Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
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Keebler Peanut Butter Jumbo Fudge Sticks wafer cookies
9/10
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© 2014 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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