Friday, March 17, 2017

Overwhelmed By The Oreos, Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies Are Still Good!


The Good: Taste good, Fun, Not overly expensive
The Bad: Varying amounts of peanut butter flavor, Not nutritious at all, Environmental impact of the mini-packs
The Basics: Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are a fun, but the dry chocolate Oreo flavor occasionally overwhelms the peanut butter center.


Every now and then, I manage to find a good deal on a snack at my local discount store. Not long ago, my mother came to visit and before she left, we went shopping around. One of the many places we went was to our awesome discount store and there, my mom stocked me up on a number of treats. One was a couple of bags of Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies. Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are a snack that acts more like a cracker than a cookie, but they are very good.

Basics

Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are smaller versions of Oreo cookies, with Reese's peanut butter in the place of the usual white sugary filling in Oreo cookies. Intended as a snack more than a dessert, the Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are drier than most sugary snacks.

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies come in various sizes, but always in a bag. I picked mine up in a 3 oz. bag. Each sandwich cookie is round and approximately 7/8" in diameter and 3/8” thick. Many of them are slightly lopsided, as the tops and bottoms are not perfectly aligned. At $1.49 for the 3 oz. bag, these seem a bit pricey to me, but not stiflingly expensive.

Ease Of Preparation

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are simple to enjoy; all you need do it open the bag and remove the sandwich cookies from it! There is no trick to eating Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies; they are a snack that is ready to go from the bag to the mouth.

Taste

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies smell intensely like peanut butter. The peanut butter aroma that comes out of the bag entirely overwhelms any scent of chocolate from the Oreo cookie base.

On the taste front, the Oreo Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies taste very dry. The chocolate Oreo cookies that surround the peanut butter are dry and not a true chocolate flavor. Moments after the Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are placed on the tongue, the sweet and nutty flavor of the Reese's peanut butter manifests. The center to the Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies is sweeter and, strangely, less dry than the exterior. The Reese's peanut butter is distinct and instantly recognizable. The peanut butter flavor breaks out of the dry, vaguely-sweet, and somewhat indistinct Oreo cookie flavor.

The Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies have virtually no aftertaste, which is somewhat surprising!

Nutrition

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are not at all a natural snack, with a fair amount of preservatives. The primary ingredients are unbleached enriched flour, sugar and canola and/or palm oil, it is not surprising that the cookies do not have the strongest chocolate flavor to them. The Oreo Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies have a shelf life of approximately one year, so it's not a bad snack to stock up on.

Each nine cookie serving of Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies has 130 calories, forty-five of which come from fat. There is less than a gram of dietary fiber. While there are 5 grams of fat and 2 grams of protein, there are 140 mg of sodium, which represents 6% of one's RDA of sodium. There are a smattering of vitamins and minerals, but nothing significant. There is a dietary note that the Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies includes peanuts, wheat, and soy ingredients, which prevents them from being Gluten-free.

Storage/Clean-up

Kept in their bag, Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies will remain fresh for a year and as long as the bag is resealed, one suspects they will last for several weeks before getting stale. I've never had to deal with issues of freshness for my Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies.

Cleanup is simple as well. Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are a dry food and thus leave no mess behind, save crumbs.

Overall

Reese's Peanut Butter Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are not enough to satisfy those who truly love chocolate, but they are a decent treat that balances the familiar chocolate cookie flavor with the similarly familiar flavor of Reese's peanut butter.

For other snack reviews, check out my reviews of:
Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls
Good Thins The Oat One Sweet Oat & Flax snacks
BSN Syntha-6 Protein Crisp Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

6/10

For other food and drink reviews, please check out my Food And Drink Review Index Page for an organized listing!

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