I stopped by a Trader Joe’s one day after work to pick up a few items. And when I was in the frozen foods aisle I happened to notice a shelf with cookies above one of the freezers. There was a box called Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies that caught my attention.
I picked it up and read the claims on the box that said the cookies are moist and chewy and are really good because they’re made with all natural ingredients. I love chewy cookies and normally the ones sold in groceries are hard & dry so I bought a box.
Price of
Trader Joe’s Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
The cookies come in a turquoise and white box that holds 18 cookies and costs $2.99.
Ingredients in
Trader Joe’s Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
The cookies contain unbleached enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), chocolate chips (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, anhydrous dextrose, soy lecithin, salt, vanilla extract), for added freshness (grape juice, rice dextrin), expeller pressed canola oil, sugar date paste, natural vanilla flavor with other natural flavors, whole eggs, cane juice syrup, baking soda, and salt.
Nutrition Facts for
Trader Joe’s Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cookies contain 130 calories, 45 calories from fat. 5g of total fat, 2g of saturated fat, 0g of trans fat. It has no cholesterol, 95mg of sodium, 20g of total carbs, 1g of fiber, 8g of sugar, and 1g of protein. It has 2% of the DV of vitamin A and 4% of the DV of iron.
Taste of
Trader Joe’s Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are around the size of a Chips Ahoy cookie. When I tried the first one I really liked it. It was overall a bit sweeter than what I prefer from a chocolate chip cookie, but the texture was great. It was firm around the edges but once I began to chew the center, it was softer like half baked cookie dough. It had a slightly chalky aftertaste but overall I really enjoyed them so much that I went through a box in one day.
A few days later I bought another box. I’m not sure if they were an old box, or just a bad batch. But these cookies were awful. The soft texture was the same but the flavor was different. These cookies were gross. They had a really bad artificial taste, and they had an extremely dry, chalky, flour-like aftertaste that was awful.
In the End..
I don’t know if the first box of the Trader Joe Charmingly Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies were all that great in the first place, but the second box was so nasty that I never want to eat them again. And even though they’re supposed to be all natural they really doesn’t taste natural, and that chalky aftertaste is the worst. I give them 3 out 5 stars only because I could’ve had a stale box, but I will never buy them again.
