A Lot To Ask From White Chocolate Lovers: Loacker White Wafer Cookies!

The Good: Tastes good, Generally good ingredients
The Bad: Could be a little more affordable, Not at all healthy
The Basics: Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are powerfully flavored in a way that anyone who loves white chocolate might enjoy!


I love trying new foods, even when they are not my favorite flavored foods. I am a big fan of dark chocolate and mint, but despite that, I often try things that are milk chocolate or white chocolate. I was pretty psyched when a recent food box my wife picked up for me included Loacker White wafer cookies. While she might like white chocolate more than I do, I can easily recognize the quality of the Loacker White cookies!

Basics

Loacker is an Italian food manufacturer that has begun importing to the U.S. to grow their brand here. The Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are individually-wrapped wafer wafer cookies and they are good, though they are not the most environmentally friendly.

Each 55 gram Loacker wafer cookie is a single bar-style wafer cookie approximately 3 1/2” long and 3 1/4” wide and 3/8" thick. The White Chocolate wafer cookies come in a 1.94 oz. package with a bar that has six segments.

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies is not a real challenge, simply unwrap the wafer cookie, which is pretty much like a candy bar, and consume. When you have a wafer cookie out, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these wafer cookies.

Taste

Opening the individual wrap around the Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies reveals a strong, surprisingly nutty scent. There is almost no chocolate scent to these wafer cookie bars, but there is a weird, faint peanut scent to the cookies.

The Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are very sweet and creamy. The white chocolate is potent and instantly recognizable. The crispy wafer cookie inside the chocolate shell is more of a texture as opposed to a flavor, but it is delightful. The white chocolate flavor is strong and dominates these cookies in a pleasant way.

There is no real aftertaste to the Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies.

Nutrition

Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. The full 55 gram wafer cookie bar represents a single serving and they are not at all nutritious. Made primarily of sugar, cocoa butter and whole milk powder, this is not an all-natural food product and these wafer cookies were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about almonds, hazelnuts, milk, wheat, gluten and soy.

Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies have a whopping 310 calories for a single wafer cookie serving, 170 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 65% of one's RDA of saturated fat, though they are very low in cholesterol, with only 10 mg. (3% RDA). As well, they are fairly low in sodium for a wafer cookie, having only 70 mg per serving. They have five grams of protein and only fifteen percent of the RDA of Calcium . . . and no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish there had been even a gram of dietary fiber.

Storage/Cleanup

Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty short shelf life; I received mine last month and they have an expiration date of the end of February 2018. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As wafer cookies, one need only not shake the package excessively to care for them and wipe away any crumbs after eating them. This is a low-stress food!

Overall

Loacker White Chocolate wafer cookies are good, for anyone who loves white chocolate and is willing to overlook the nutritional detractions of them.

For other reviews of White Chocolate products, please check out:
Ghirardelli Sublime White Cookies Jubilee chocolate bar
Quaker Chewy White Chocolate Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
Reese's White Peanut Butter Cups

5.5/10

For other food and drink reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2018 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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A Pretty Standard Cookie, Barilla Baiocchi Come Out As Average!

The Good: Decent ingredients, Does not taste bad
The Bad: Comparatively expensive, Not very flavorful at all
The Basics: My first experience with Barilla's line of cookies are their Baiocchi cookies and they are pretty unremarkable.


It's that time of year that I am gifted a whole awesome box of new-to-me foods! The first food that caught my eye to try was the Barilla Baiocchi cookies. I was pretty surprised to see Barilla - famous as a pasta and pasta sauce company - was branching out. The Baiocchi are intended as a dessert that will accent their pastas to finish a meal off well.

Barilla Baiocchi cookies are trying to compete with brand named Oreo sandwich cookies. But, with only fifteen cookies per pack - and smaller ones at that, the Barilla Baiocchi are proportionately a bit more expensive for a less-sweet, less-flavorful cookie.

Basics

Barilla is an Italian company that is famous for making pasta and is now branching out in its U.S. distribution to include its baked goods, like cookies and breadsticks. Sandwich cookies have never been my favorite type of cookie and Barilla Baiocchi are not exactly making me rethink that.

Each (almost) 10 gram Barilla Baiocchi Cookie is two tan disks approximately 1 1/2” in diameter, connected by a thin layer of brown icing that holds the two cookies together. Baiocchi Nutrition Rich Cookies come in a 5.29 oz. bag that houses the fifteen cookies. The bag does nothing to prevent breakage and my bag had several broken cookies. A serving of Barilla Baiocchi cookies is three cookies.

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Barilla Baiocchi cookies is not a real challenge; they are cookies. Simply open the bag - which is not resealable - and pull out a cookie. When you have a cookie out, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or difficult about eating these cookies.

Taste

Opening the bag of Barilla Baiocchi cookies, one is greeted by the scent of graham crackers. The scent of the cinnamon and graham is intriguing and inviting, but not particularly strong. There is no hint of the hazelnut or cocoa in the bouquet of the cookies.

In the mouth, the predominant flavor of the cookies is dry and nutty. The exterior of the cookies is dry and not particularly sweet. The flavor transitions into something mildly akin to graham and the hazelnut and cocoa center adds a little bit of sweetness to them. These cookies are neither overly flavorful, nor particularly sweet.

The Barilla Baiocchi cookies leave a fairly dry aftertaste in the mouth, so they are ideal when accompanied by milk or water.

Nutrition

Barilla Baiocchi are intended as a dessert, not a full meal. Three of these cookies, totaling 28 grams, represent a single serving and they are predictably not all that nutritious. Made primarily of wheat flour, sugar and non hydrogenated vegetable fats and oils, the ingredient list is made of almost all-recognizable ingredients. This is not an all-natural food product and these cookies were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about eggs, milk, soy, hazelnuts, shea nuts, coconuts and wheat.

Barilla's Baiocchi cookies have only 140 calories for a three cookie serving, but 70 of those calories are from fat. A full serving represents 15% 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 85 mg per serving. They also have 2 grams of protein, but no other significant nutrients.

Storage/Cleanup

Barilla Baiocchi cookies are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty decent shelf life; the bag we got earlier this week (which was produced on November 7 of this year) had an expiration date of February 1, 2019. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long; they were pretty dry and hard to begin with. As cookies, one need only not shake the bag excessively to care for them and wipe away any crumbs after eating them. This is a low-stress food!

Overall

Barilla Baiocchi cookies are pretty unremarkable, but not bad. Anyone hoping for anything flavorful - especially in the arena of chocolate flavoring for the central icing - will be disappointed.

For other reviews of cookies, please check out:
Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls
Peeps Oreo Cookies
Chips Ahoy! Thins Cinnamon Sugar cookies

4/10

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

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Chocolate Therapy Is One Of Ben & Jerry's Perfect Pints!

The Good: Amazing flavor, Reasonably priced for the quality, Good ingredients
The Bad: Nothing!
The Basics: Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is an amazing flavor from the venerable brand!


It takes a lot for me to give a product a perfect (10/10) rating. In my body of works, there are a number of products and works that achieve that position, but whenever I consider a 10/10 rating, I actually spend some time after believing the product might be perfect trying to find any flaws that might rob it of that rating. But some products, of course, hold up to the scrutiny. Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream absolutely holds up.

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is an amazing flavor of ice cream from Ben & Jerry's and is one of the perfect flavors from the Vermont-based ice cream company.

Basics

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream comes in a pint container. The Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is a fairly chunky ice cream with an obvious additive. The chocolate cookie bits are present in virtually every bite. Though the packaging says there is a chocolate pudding swirl, I could not find one (visually) in the ice cream.

At (locally) $5.99 a pint, the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is an expensive ice cream, especially compared to other, comparable, ice creams. Ben & Jerry's ice cream is made of decent ingredients, which does set it apart from many other ice creams. And given the quality of the ice cream flavor, the Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is worth the price!

Ease Of Preparation

The Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is a loaded ice cream. As an ice cream, preparation is ridiculously simple: one need only to open the top of the container, scoop out a half cup and consume! There is no trick to preparing or eating the Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream!

Taste

The Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Therapy ice cream smells strongly of chocolate. The cacao aroma is powerful even when the ice cream is frozen. As the ice cream nears its melting point, it becomes more aromatic and the smell of the chocolate is both distinct and powerful.

In the mouth, Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy ice cream tastes strongly of chocolate. The Chocolate Therapy is possibly the closest chocolate ice cream to a dark chocolate ice cream I've yet tasted from Ben & Jerry's. The chocolate flavor is rich and potent without being overly bitter and dry. The Chocolate Therapy ice cream manages to be sweetened by the chocolate cookie pieces without losing any of the strong, dark chocolate ice cream flavor.

This ice cream leaves a slightly dry, marginally sweet aftertaste in the mouth, though that aftertaste does not endure very long.

Nutrition

The Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream is a fairly heavy ice cream with a heavy additive (the cookie pieces are pretty solid in this ice cream). The pint represents four half-cup servings. In the half-cup serving, there are 250 calories, 130 of which are from fat. The fourteen grams of fat represent 22% of the RDA of fat, with 40% of one’s RDA of saturated fat coming in the 8 grams of saturated fat in this ice cream. One serving has 45 mg of cholesterol (that’s 15% of the RDA!) and 60 mg of Sodium (3% RDA). The only other real nutrients are four grams of protein, 15% RDA of Iron and 10% of the RDA of Calcium in the Chocolate Therapy Ice Cream.

Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy has decent ingredients. Made primarily of Cream, Skim milk, and liquid sugar, there is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list. The Chocolate Therapy Ben & Jerry’s is Kosher, but not marked as gluten free. There is no allergy warning on the pint.

Storage/Clean-Up

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is both a frozen and a dairy product, so it is pretty obvious that it must be kept frozen in order to remain viable. Kept frozen it remains fresh for months; the pint I just opened would not have expired until October 22, 2018, though I'm sure it won't last that long in my household based on its quality!

The Chocolate Therapy ice cream is fairly dark in color and it leaves stains on both light and dark colored fabrics. If the ice cream melts and gets onto fabrics, it will require one to wash it right out. On nonporous surfaces, the ice cream wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

The Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy ice cream is truly amazing; every bite, every lick is powerful in its chocolate flavor, making it a satisfying ice cream for anyone who loves chocolate!

For other Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Urban Bourbon Ice Cream
Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch Ice Cream
Limited Edition Cotton Candy

10/10

For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Generic Ice Cream, Wonderful Additive: Edy's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Is A Mixed Bag!

The Good: Good ingredients, Affordable, Good flavor for the peanut butter additive
The Bad: The ice cream is generically sweet and minimally flavored, Not overly nutritious
The Basics: Edy’s Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a nice twist to the cookie dough ice creams . . . even if the ice cream itself is not overly exceptional.


I am told, by the person I trust most in this life, that I like strong flavors much more than the average person. As such, my views on some ice creams may differ from those who enjoy more wishy-washy flavors or have mild palates. In the case of Edy's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream, I definitely fall on the front that the ice cream is far too weak to hold its own with the peanut butter additive in the dessert. Had Edy's used a peanut butter flavored ice cream instead of a sweet cream ice cream, the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream might have been a rousing success. As it is, the ice cream is mild, the additive is not prevalent enough and the result is a more average overall ice cream than one that truly wows those who like strong flavors.

Basics

Edy’s ice cream comes in a one and a half quart cylindrical container. The Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a smooth ice cream broken up by quite a swirl of peanut butter and a few random sized Peanut Butter cookie dough pieces. At (locally) $5.99 a half gallon, this Edy’s ice cream is an affordable, mid-range ice cream. This is a new, limited edition of Edy’s ice cream, so it has not hit every market yet and is not necessarily going to be made a part of the regular line after its limited edition run ends.

Ease Of Preparation

Edy’s Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a light ice cream with two overpowering additives. As an ice cream, preparation is ridiculously simple: one need only open the top of the container, scoop out a half cup and consume! There is no trick to preparing or eating the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

Taste

The Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream has a strong peanut butter scent to it. The aroma to this ice cream effervesces quite a bit, even when the ice cream is completely frozen. This is not one of the ice creams that requires it to near the melting point to develop an inviting bouquet.

In the mouth, the Edy's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream is dominated by the generic sweet cream flavor. The average bite of the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream is sweet without any real distinction. The peanut butter swirl in the sweet cream ice cream is dry and peanut butter flavor in a way that instantly overwhelms the ice cream. The chunks of actual peanut butter cookie dough are dry and grainy and distinct in their peanut butter flavor. The squishy blobs of frozen cookie dough are flavorful and they are so overpowering in the mouth that they establish the a dryness in the mouth that is very different from the flavor of the ice cream.

The Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream has a fairly strong, dry aftertaste that lingers in the mouth for about three minutes after the last of the ice cream is consumed.

Nutrition

The Edy’s Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a generally smooth ice cream with a substantial cookie dough additive. The one and a half quart container represents twelve half-cup servings. In the half-cup serving, there are 120 calories, 35 of which are from fat. The four grams of fat represent 6% of the RDA of fat, with 8% of one’s RDA of saturated fat coming in the 1.5 grams of saturated fat in this ice cream. One serving has 5 mg of cholesterol (that’s 2% of the RDA!) and 55 mg of Sodium (2% RDA). The only other real nutrient is three grams of protein, though there is also 8% of the RDA of Calcium and 2% of the RDA Vitamin A in the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

Edy’s has decent ingredients, which is nice. Made primarily of Non-Fat Milk, sugar, and corn syrup Peanut Butter Cookie Dough is a decent ice cream! There is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list, though the last few ingredients are more preservatives and coloring agents than anything one might find in a grocery store. There are allergy warnings for milk and peanut ingredients. It is not marked as Kosher.

Storage/Clean-Up

Edy’s ice cream is both a frozen and a dairy product, so it is pretty obvious that it must be kept frozen in order to remain viable. Kept frozen it remains fresh for months; the container we bought last week had an expiration date of January 2018.

The Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream is very light, but will certainly stain light clothing and some darker clothing. When the ice cream melts and gets onto fabrics, it will require one to wash it right out. On nonporous surfaces, the ice cream wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

Edy’s Peanut Butter Cookie Dough ice cream is good, but for those who love more flavorful things, it is likely to underwhelm a little more than thrill.

For other Edy’s ice creams, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Limited Edition Twinkie Ice Cream
Mint Brownie Ice Cream
Mint Cookie Crunch

5/10

For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Each On Their Own: Ben & Jerry's Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream Does Not Blend Well!

The Good: Each of the individual flavors are good, Good ingredients
The Bad: Low nutritional value, None of the flavors blend with the others; the cheesecake flavor is completely overwhelmed
The Basics: Ben & Jerry’s Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream is interesting, but not at all one that manages to be something that holds together well.


After trying several of the Ben & Jerry's Core ice creams, I finally have a real opinion on the product line as a whole. The Ben & Jerry's Core ice creams are an interesting idea, but too many of them try to pack in way too much stuff. Having picked up a pint of Ben & Jerry's Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core, this idea was nailed home to me when I discovered than none of the three main elements - cookies & cream ice cream, chocolate ice cream, and cheesecake center - worked together. Each of the elements are good on their own, but the flavors add up to nothing new and special together. There is too much going on, ineffectively, in the Ben & Jerry's Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Core flavors of ice cream are ice cream flavors that have, essentially, the “topping” of the ice cream in the pint, presented as a cylinder going through the center. So, for example, in the Caramel Sutra Core, if one looks at the top of it, there is a circle in the center of caramel (it is actually a column that goes straight down to the bottom of the pint) surrounded by ice cream. It’s a neat concept and the Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core has two flavors of ice cream all around a center of plain cheesecake.

Basics

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream comes in a pint container. The Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream is a smooth ice cream on the chocolate side and appropriately chunky on the cookie side with the cookies and cream ice cream. The cheesecake core is more subtle than some of the other cores and it is not as plentiful as the core in some other Ben & Jerry's Core flavors.

At (locally) $5.99 a pint, the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is an mid-range ice cream, especially compared to other ice creams and while the Core concept is unique to Ben & Jerry’s, it is not such an incredible execution of the concept as to justify the inflated ice cream price.

Ease Of Preparation

The Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream is a fairly loaded ice cream, where the core additive fails to blend with either of the two ice creams in the mix. As an ice cream, preparation is ridiculously simple: one need only to open the top of the container, scoop out a half cup and consume! There is no trick to preparing or eating the Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream! No matter how one tries to consume it - blended together or with each of its independent elements, it is in no way extraordinary.

Taste

Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream has virtually no aroma to it. The ice cream has no clear scent to it; this is a surprisingly non-effervescent, even as it nears its melting point.

In the mouth, Ben & Jerry’s Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream is an ineffective blend of chocolate, cookies & cream ice cream and a very mild frozen cheesecake core center. Each of the flavors in the Ben & Jerry's Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core are good on their own, but none of them gel together or compliment one another. The cheesecake center is entirely overwhelmed by the cookie flavor in the cookies & cream ice cream and it does not have a chance at asserting itself near the chocolate ice cream. The flavors are good on their own, but none of them work with one another to make anything more than the sum of their parts.

The Ben & Jerry’s Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream has no real aftertaste to it. The chocolate ice cream is a bit dry and so are the cookies in the cookies & cream portion of the ice cream, but the dryness does not last in the mouth for very long after the last of the ice cream is consumed.

Nutrition

The Ben & Jerry’s Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream is a fairly dark ice cream with a noticeable additive and it is not at all healthy, though it does use decent ingredients. The pint represents four half-cup servings. In the half-cup serving, there are 270 calories, 140 of which are from fat. The fifteen grams of fat represent 23% of the RDA of fat, with 50% of one’s RDA of saturated fat coming in the 10 grams of saturated fat in this ice cream. One serving has 65 mg of cholesterol (that’s 20% of the RDA!) and 65 mg of Sodium (3% RDA). The only other real nutrients are four grams of protein, 10% of the RDA of Calcium and Vitamin A in the Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ice Cream.

Ben & Jerry’s Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core has decent ingredients. Made primarily of Cream, liquid sugar and Skim milk! There is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list. The Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is Kosher, but not marked as gluten free. There are no allergy warnings on the pint.

Storage/Clean-Up

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is both a frozen and a dairy product, so it is pretty obvious that it must be kept frozen in order to remain viable. Kept frozen it remains fresh for months (the pint I purchased three weeks ago would have lasted until May 24, 2018, had I not gobbled it down well before then).

The Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream is very dark, especially on the chocolate side, for both the chocolate ice cream and cookie portions. Consult a fabric guide for getting the dairy or cookie components out of whatever you get it on. On nonporous surfaces, the ice cream wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

Ben & Jerry's Cookies & Cream Cheesecake Core ice cream is all right, but it basically proves the idea that sometimes less is more.

For other Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Brownie Batter Core Ice Cream
That's My Jam Core Ice Cream
What A Cluster Ice Cream

5/10

For other ice cream reviews, please visit my Ice Cream Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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If Only It Could Hold Its Own: Edy's Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream!

The Good: Good ingredients, Affordable, Flavorful
The Bad: Cookie dough is virtually flavorless compared to the ice cream base.
The Basics: Edy’s Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a great idea with a middle-of-the-road execution because the cookie dough cannot hold its own with the chocolate ice cream base.


Sometimes, the problem is not getting what we want; the more rare problem is getting what we do want. For virtually every ice cream I have ever loved that has a vanilla ice cream base, I have wished for the same with a chocolate ice cream base. So, when I saw the new limited edition Edy's Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, I rushed right out and bought it! But, after enjoying quite a bit of the Edy's Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, I recognized the folly of my wish. The chocolate ice cream base completely overwhelmed the flavor of the chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough in the ice cream. As a result, the cookie dough is virtually flavorless by comparison.

Basics

Edy’s ice cream comes in a one and a half quart cylindrical container. The Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a smooth ice cream broken up by quite a few random sized chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough pieces. At (locally) $5.99 a half gallon, this Edy’s ice cream is an affordable, mid-range ice cream. This is a new, limited edition of Edy’s ice cream, so it has not hit every market yet, though it is fun!

Ease Of Preparation

Edy’s Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a rich ice cream with a lot of additives. As an ice cream, preparation is ridiculously simple: one need only open the top of the container, scoop out a half cup and consume! There is no trick to preparing or eating the Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

Taste

I was shocked that the Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream has almost no aroma to it. For such a robust flavored ice cream, I was surprised that it was one of the least aromatic frozen desserts that I've ever reviewed.

On the flavor front, the Edy's Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream is overwhelmingly chocolate flavored. The ice cream is rich and chocolatey and the chocolate flavor is distinct and strong. In fact, the chocolate ice cream flavor is so potent that it overwhelms entirely the flavor of the cookie dough. The chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough manifests more as a texture than a flavor, the ice cream base is so strong.

This ice cream has a dry, slightly sweet aftertaste to it, but it does not endure very long after the last of it is consumed.

Nutrition

The Edy’s Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is a generally smooth ice cream with a substantial cookie dough additive. The one and a half quart container represents twelve half-cup servings. In the half-cup serving, there are 130 calories, 30 of which are from fat. The three and a half grams of fat represent 5% of the RDA of fat, with 13% of one’s RDA of saturated fat coming in the 2.5 grams of saturated fat in this ice cream. One serving has 10 mg of cholesterol (that’s 3% of the RDA!) and 40 mg of Sodium (2% RDA). The only other real nutrient is three grams of protein, though there is also 8% of the RDA of Calcium and 4% of the RDA Vitamin A and Iron in the Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream.

Edy’s has decent ingredients, which is nice. Made primarily of Non-Fat Milk, sugar, and chocolate chip cookie dough, Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is a decent ice cream! There is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list, though the last few ingredients are more preservatives and coloring agents than anything one might find in a grocery store. There are allergy warnings for milk, wheat, egg, and soy, so this is not a gluten-free food and, obviously, it is not Vegan-compliant. It is not marked as Kosher.

Storage/Clean-Up

Edy’s ice cream is both a frozen and a dairy product, so it is pretty obvious that it must be kept frozen in order to remain viable. Kept frozen it remains fresh for months; the container we bought last week had an expiration date of January 6, 2018.

The Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream is very dark brown and will certainly stain light clothing and some darker clothing. When the ice cream melts and gets onto fabrics, it will require one to wash it right out. On nonporous surfaces, the ice cream wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

Edy’s Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream is a good idea, though it is an execution that is less incredible than it sounded.

For other Edy’s ice creams, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Limited Edition Twinkie Ice Cream
Mint Brownie Ice Cream
Mint Cookie Crunch

5.5/10

For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Dry Cinnamon Mediocrity: Ben & Jerry's Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream Underwhelms!

The Good: Inoffensive flavor, Good ingredients
The Bad: Low nutritional value, Not a strong flavor or a good mix of flavors, Very dry aftertaste
The Basics: Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream is mediocre and unsatisfying, making for one of the few Core fails from Ben & Jerry's.


My local grocery store has had a pretty awesome sale on Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the last week and that has led me to try some new and new-to-me ice creams. One of the new flavors my grocery store began to stock that I was intrigued by was the Ben & Jerry's Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream. I have generally enjoyed the various Core ice cream flavors, so the idea of one with - essentially - a cinnamon cookie core was interesting to me.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Core flavors of ice cream are ice cream flavors that have, essentially, the “topping” of the ice cream in the pint, presented as a cylinder going through the center. So, for example, in the Caramel Sutra Core, if one looks at the top of it, there is a circle in the center of caramel (it is actually a column that goes straight down to the bottom of the pint) surrounded by ice cream. It’s a neat concept and the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core has two flavors of ice cream swirled around bits of cinnamon cookie blobs.

Unfortunately, the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core is a less-remarkable representation of the Core concept and the dryness of this ice cream flavor makes it off-putting.

Basics

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream comes in a pint container. The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream is a smooth ice cream on the vanilla bean side and the caramel side is grainy, which is accented by the dry cookie pieces. The cookie core is obvious and not as plentiful as the core in some other Ben & Jerry's Core flavors.

At (locally) $5.99 a pint, the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is an mid-range ice cream, especially compared to other ice creams and while the Core concept is unique to Ben & Jerry’s, it is not such an incredible execution of the concept as to justify the inflated ice cream price.

Ease Of Preparation

The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream is a mildly loaded ice cream, where the core additive blends with one of the two ice creams in the mix. As an ice cream, preparation is ridiculously simple: one need only to open the top of the container, scoop out a half cup and consume! There is no trick to preparing or eating the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream! No matter how one tries to consume it - blended together or with each of its independent elements, it is in no way extraordinary.

Taste

Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream has almost no aroma to it. This is an ice cream that has virtually no scent to it, even as it nears its melting point.

In the mouth, Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream is very dry. The caramel ice cream is not overly sweet and the vanilla ice cream is essentially vanilla bean, but a very mild form of it. The dry, sugary flavor of the caramel ice cream is bland and seems to absorb the flavor of the cookie additive. The cookie is strongly cinnamon flavor and that makes more than half of the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream just taste dry.

Unfortunately, the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream is not just dry and somewhat indistinct in its primary flavoring; the aftertaste is strongly dry. The net result is an ice cream that is more dry than sweet and not at all satisfying in its flavor.

Nutrition

The Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream is a fairly light ice cream with a noticeable additive and it is not at all healthy, though it does use decent ingredients. The pint represents four half-cup servings. In the half-cup serving, there are 290 calories, 170 of which are from fat. The nineteen grams of fat represent 29% of the RDA of fat, with 50% of one’s RDA of saturated fat coming in the 9 grams of saturated fat in this ice cream. One serving has 65 mg of cholesterol (that’s 22% of the RDA!) and 90 mg of Sodium (4% RDA). The only other real nutrients are four grams of protein, 10% of the RDA of Calcium and 8% of the RDA of Vitamin A in the Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ice Cream.

Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core has decent ingredients. Made primarily of Cream, Skim milk, and water! There is nothing unpronounceable in the ingredients list. The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is Kosher, but not marked as gluten free. There are no allergy warnings on the pint.

Storage/Clean-Up

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is both a frozen and a dairy product, so it is pretty obvious that it must be kept frozen in order to remain viable. Kept frozen it remains fresh for months (the pint I purchased last week would have lasted until November 2017, had I not had to gobble it down for review and enjoyment!).

The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream is fairly light in color, for both the vanilla and caramel ice cream flavors. Consult a fabric guide for getting the dairy or cookie components out of whatever you get it on. On nonporous surfaces, the ice cream wipes off exceptionally easily.

Overall

The Ben & Jerry’s Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core ice cream is a rare, mediocre outing from Ben & Jerry's, dominated as it is by cinnamon flavoring. The Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Core is dry and the aftertaste is one of the more enduring and dry ones from any Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

For other Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, be sure to visit my reviews of:
Ben & Jerry's Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream
Blueberry Vanilla Graham Greek Frozen Yogurt
Coffee Caramel Buzz ice cream

3.5/10

For other food reviews, please visit my Food Review Index Page for an organized listing!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Creme De Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls Hit The Flavor Right!

The Good: Very realistic dark chocolate flavor, Inexpensive, Protective canister is good, Addictive flavor, Protective bags inside the canister
The Bad: Very low on nutritional benefits, Could use a chocolate cookie coating for my tastes!
The Basics: Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are a strong chocolate flavor that makes for a wonderful cookie!


The last few months, I have fallen back in love with wafer cookies and I've discovered the joy of wafer roll cookies. I have been very happy to try some new (to me) brands of cookies. Tonight, that takes the form of binging on Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls. I quickly fell in love with the Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls and discovered that it was to stop eating them, I enjoyed them so much!

Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls manage to have a realistic dark chocolate flavor for their filling, which appeals very much to a person like me who prefers dark chocolate to milk chocolate!

Basics

Creme de Pirouline is an American company and these cookies are baked in the United States (Mississippi). The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls come in a metal canister that houses thirty-two cookies. Each cookie is a 4 3/4" long by 3/8" in diameter tube. The wafer cookies are kept well-protected by two inner packages and outside removing the first two to three cookies, the cookies seem to remain incredibly well-intact!

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls is not a real challenge, simply open the canister, pull out one of the two inner bags, remove a cookie from it and consume! Once one selects a cookie, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated to eating these cookies.

Taste

Opening the canister, the Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls smell reasonably chocolatey. The dark chocolate aroma is muted some by the cookie coating, but there is some scent to the Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls.

In the mouth, the Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are dry and sweet. The sweetness of the dark chocolate frosting inside the cookie tube overcomes the crispy shell's dryness very quickly. The dark chocolate filling is robust enough to impress those who love dark chocolate; there is nothing weak about the chocolate flavor that insinuates that the chocolate is anything other than dark chocolate. The flavor is not like an oversweet milk chocolate, but the dark chocolate filling still is sweet enough to overcome the mundane, but crispy cookie coating.

The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls leave a slightly dry aftertaste in the mouth, but the flavor is not unpleasant.

Nutrition

Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. Two of these cookies (weighing 25 grams) represents a single serving and they are not at all nutritious. Made primarily of sugar, flour and vegetable oil, these cookies are not at all an all-natural food product. The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls have an allergy disclaimer about soy, milk, and wheat!

Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls have 130 calories for a single serving, 45 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 13% of one's RDA of saturated fat, though they are cholesterol-free. The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are exceptionally low in sodium for a cookie, having only 30 mg (1% RDA) per serving. The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls have a single gram of protein, but no other significant amounts of nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish they had been even a full gram of dietary fiber.

Storage/Cleanup

Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty decent shelf life. The canister we picked up last month had an expiration date of October 3, 2017. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. Instead, they were consumed well before then! As cookies, they can leave crumbs, but because the cookies are found in a metal canister, they have little breakage until one bites into them and generates crumbs then! The Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls have very little breakage because of there are two inner packs of the wafer roll cookies.

Overall

Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls could only be better if they had a chocolate cookie coating around the dark chocolate frosting center. But as they are, Creme de Pirouline Dark Chocolate Artisan Wafer Rolls are pretty wonderful!

For other reviews of cookies, please check out my reviews of:
Peeps Oreo cookies
Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls
Chips Ahoy! Thins Cinnamon Sugar cookies

7/10

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

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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A Surprising Success, Peeps Oreo Cookies Are More Than Just A Novelty!

The Good: Great flavor, Surprisingly durable, Affordable, No aftertaste
The Bad: Utter lack of health benefits
The Basics: A surprisingly awesome flavor of Oreo cookies, Nabisco has a real winner with their Peeps Oreo cookies!


Every now and then when I take a chance on a new-to-market product, I find myself pleasantly surprised. It has been a long time since I was favorably surprised by a novelty food product. Today, however, the trend of disappointment in food products that seem to be released only because of some effective weird pitch is broken as Nabisco actually released a surprise winner in their Oreo cookie line. The new Oreo cookies are Peeps Oreo cookies, which are exactly what they sound like; Oreo cookies with marshmallow Peeps filling.

We were pleasantly surprised to find the Peeps Oreo cookies at our local grocery store and for a change, we eagerly paid full price for the package just to try what the potential novelty cookie would actually taste like. The Peeps Oreo cookies are more than just a novelty cookie, as they have a substantively wonderful flavor. In fact, outside the lack of nutritional benefits - which is not such a weird thing for cookies these days, as many cookies have additional vitamins and minerals infused in them, much like breakfast cereals - the Peeps Oreo cookies are perfect!

Basics

Oreo cookies are manufactured by Nabisco, which has been around pretty much forever. In recent years, Oreo has attempted to generate product enthusiasm by changing the flavor of the cream in Oreo cookies to give people new reasons to buy them. The Peeps Oreo cookies are one of the latest attempts and they definitedly succeed with that attempt.

Each 15 gram Oreo Cookie is comprised of two yellow cake colored disks approximately 1 7/8” in diameter, connected by a thin layer of pink marshmallow filling that holds the two cookies together. Peeps Oreo Cookies come in a 10.7 oz. sealed package with a plastic tray that houses the twenty cookies. The package and tray do a decent job of preventing breakage, at least until one begins to eat many or most of these cookies. A serving of Peeps Oreo sandwich cookies is two cookies.

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Peeps Oreo cookies is not a real challenge, but getting to the cookies is. Oreo wisely created a package of cookies that is resealable. That resealable pouch surrounds the thin plastic tray that houses the cookies. The seam for the releasable opening is not at the top or side of the tray, though, it is at the middle. This makes it slightly more awkward to get the cookies out of the package. If this is a subtle way to enforce portion control, then bravo Oreo. If it is not, it’s just annoying.

When you have a cookie out, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these cookies.

Taste

Opening the package of the Peeps Oreo cookies, the consumer is greeted with the very inviting aroma of yellow cake and marshmallow. The marshmallow Peeps scent from the Peeps Oreo cookies is distinct, strong and very enticing to those who love Peeps!

In the mouth, the Peeps Oreo taste sweet and sugary with a strong flavor of yellow cake. The dry cookies are flavorful, much more than they are dry and they actually taste very much like yellow cake. The center is complimented very well by the sugary, marshmallow flavor of the Peeps icing in the middle of the sandwich cookies. The two flavors are distinct and play off one another exceptionally well.

Perhaps more surprising than how the two flavors within the Peeps Oreo cookies work well together is how the Peeps Oreo cookies do not leave a dry aftertaste in the mouth. These are exceptionally flavorful and enjoyable cookies!

Nutrition

Peeps Oreo Cookies are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. Two of these 15 gram cookies represent a single serving and they are not very nutritious at all. Made primarily of sugar, unbleached enriched flour and canola and/or palm oil, the ingredient list is far less organic the further down one ventures, like most prepackaged products. This is not an all-natural food product and these cookies were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about soy and wheat.

Oreo's Peeps Oreo cookies have 140 calories for a two cookie serving, 60 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 10% 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 80 mg per serving. They have less than a gram of protein and 4% of the RDA of Iron. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish there were some dietary fiber in these cookies.

Storage/Cleanup

Peeps Oreo cookies are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty decent shelf life; the package we bought last week had an expiration date of June 26, 2017. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As cookies, one need only not shake the bag excessively to care for them and wipe away any crumbs after eating them. This is a low-stress food!

Overall

Peeps Oreo cookies are an impressive cookie that actually lives up to its promise of blending the flavors of Oreo cookies and Peeps marshmallow candies!

For other Oreo and Peeps reviews, please check out:
Berry Burst Ice Cream Oreo cookies
Breyer's Blasts! Oreo Birthday Blasts Ice Cream
Chocolate Creme Peeps

8/10

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

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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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!

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Better Than Expected, Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls Are Fun!

The Good: Very real chocolate flavor, Inexpensive, Protective canister is nice
The Bad: Very low on nutritional benefits
The Basics: Surprisingly delightful, Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are the flavor worth picking up!


I love trying new (to me) snack foods. When I picked up the Snakkers Espresso Creme Filled Wafer Rolls (reviewed here!), I thought I would absolutely love them. At the time we bought that canister, we also picked up a canister of Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls. The genuine surprise for me was that both my wife and I found the Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls to be vastly superior to the Espresso flavored wafer rolls. Despite our enthusiasm for the other flavor, the Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls had a more accurate chocolate flavor to them than the Espresso and that made them easy to solidly recommend!

Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls taste sweet and good and make one wish for a chocolate-coated version for even more chocolate flavor. As they stand, though, they are well worth trying and stocking up on.

Basics

Snakkers is the U.S. imprint of a Greek manufacturer with a long history. The Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls come in a metal canister that houses about fifty cookies. Each cookie is a 4 1/4" long by 3/8" in diameter tube. The wafer cookies are kept well-protected and outside removing the first two to three cookies, the cookies seem to remain incredibly well-intact!

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls is not a real challenge, simply open the canister, pull out a tube and consume! Once one selects a cookie, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these cookies.

Taste

Opening the canister, the Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls smells strongly of chocolate. In fact, opening the canister emits a chocolate flavor that is distinct and real; these smell just like fresh-baked brownies.

On the tongue, the Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are dry and chocolatey. As the wafer rolls crack open and one gets access to the center, the Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls taste strongly like chocolate frosting. The sweetness is not at all generic; the flavor is very much chocolate and sugary, which is delightful.

The Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls leave a slightly dry, strongly sweet aftertaste in one's mouth after they are consumed.

Nutrition

Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. Four of these cookies (weighing 32 grams) represents a single serving and they are not at all nutritious. Made primarily of sugar, wheat flour and palm oil, these cookies are not at all an all-natural food product. The Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about peanuts, sesame seeds and tree nuts. Obviously anyone with a milk allergy should avoid them, though there are also allergy warnings for soy, egg, and wheat!

Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls have 150 calories for a single serving, 50 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 13% of one's RDA of saturated fat, though they are cholesterol-free. The Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are exceptionally low in sodium for a cookie, having only 15 mg (1% RDA) per serving. The Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls have 2 grams of protein, but no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I wish they had been even a full gram of dietary fiber.

Storage/Cleanup

Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty decent shelf life. The canister we picked up a month ago had an expiration date of July 28, 2018. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As cookies, they can leave crumbs, but because the cookies are found in a metal canister, they have little breakage until one bites into them and generates crumbs then!

Overall

Snakkers Chocolate Creme Filled Wafer Rolls are wonderful and worth stocking up on for anyone looking for chocolate wafer cookies in a cool shape! These are perfect with coffee, chocolate milk, or adorning ice cream!

For other reviews of cookies, please check out my reviews of:
Seth Greenberg’s Orange Brownie Crunch
Chips Ahoy! Birthday Frosting Filled Cookies
WhoNu? Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

6.5/10

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

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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Hazelnut Extreme: Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits Are All Right!

The Good: Very true flavor, Generally good ingredients
The Bad: Comparatively expensive, Low on nutritional benefits, Hazelnuts overwhelm the chocolate flavor.
The Basics: For those who truly love hazelnuts and want a mildly chocolate treat, Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits fit the bill.


Not very long ago, my mom got me a food subscription box and in it was a box of Loacker Cappuccino Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits (reviewed here!) and they were all right. Also in the box was a full pack of Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits. Before trying the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits, I had no idea what "Creme Noisette" was; as it turns out, that is just a fancy term for "hazelnut." The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are a chocolate and hazelnut wafer cookie and they are pretty good.

The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are not at all perfect; they are good, but they are very nutty, with a minimal chocolate flavor to balance the nuts!

Basics

Loacker is an Italian company and the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits come in a box with a protective tray, that houses the dozen chocolate-covered wafer cookies. Each cookie is 1 7/8" long, 1" wide and 3/8" thick. The wafer cookies are kept well-protected and each chocolate-covered wafer cookie remains perfectly well-intact, even if it is not the most environmentally-respectful packaging.

Ease Of Preparation

Eating Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits is not a real challenge, simply unwrap the cookie tray within the cardboard overwrap and consume. Once one selects a cookie, all you have to do is stick it in your mouth and chew; there is nothing complicated or foreign about eating these cookies.

Taste

Opening the wrap around the tray of the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits smell surprisingly strongly of hazelnuts. The aroma that comes from the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits is almost entirely of the nutty hazelnuts, not anything even remotely like the chocolate coating!

On the tongue, the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are sweet, as one might expect. The buttery flavor of the hazelnuts blends nicely with the light, sweet chocolate. The wafer cookies within the chocolate shell compliments the nuts as more of a texture than a real flavor. The nutty hazelnuts quickly overwhelm the sweet chocolate flavor of the Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits.

The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits leave a fairly dry aftertaste in the mouth after the last of them are consumed.

Nutrition

Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are intended as a sweet snack, not a full meal. Four of these cookies (weighing out at 33 grams) represents a single serving and they are not truly nutritious. Made primarily of milk chocolate, coconut oil, and hazelnuts, these cookies are not at all an all-natural food product. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits were produced on equipment that forces them to add a disclaimer about almonds and obviously anyone with a milk or hazelnut allergy should avoid them.

Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits have 190 calories for a single serving, 100 of which are from fat. A full serving represents 34% of one's RDA of saturated fat and they have 5mg of cholesterol. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are exceptionally low in sodium for a cookie, having only 30 mg (1% RDA) per serving. The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits have 3 grams of protein, but no other real nutrients. As one who is working on getting heart-healthy, I was happy they had even a single gram of dietary fiber.

Storage/Cleanup

Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are easy to care for and clean up. Unopened, they have a pretty short shelf life; our box, which arrived just over a month ago, had an expiration date of February 2017. Kept sealed, I am sure they would have lasted at least that long. As cookies, they can leave crumbs, but because the cookies are coated in chocolate, the milk chocolate can melt and require one to wash up, lest they leave milk chocolate fingerprints all over!

Overall

The Loacker Creme Noisette Fine Milk Chocolate Biscuits are very true to their flavor, even if the nuttiness overwhelms the chocolate in such a way that chocolate fans might not enjoy quite as much. Despite that, they are well worth trying for anyone looking for a real hazelnut and chocolate treat!

For other reviews of cookies, please check out my reviews of:
Chips Ahoy! Thins Cinnamon Sugar cookies
Chewy Chips Ahoy! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Creations cookies
Seth Greenberg’s Orange Brownie Crunch

5.5/10

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

© 2017 W.L. Swarts. May not be reprinted without permission.
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