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Valentine’s Day is inching closer and closer. And people always say the best gifts are ones given from the heart, but nothing says “I love you” better than something from the heart for the stomach.
So in honor of all those lovey-dovey cherubs hovering by, here is my February candy recipe of the month. I call it my Lots-a-Luv Cookies. These babies are sure to wow anyone you present them to because they aren’t the sort of things you would just hand over to anybody.
My mom is a baker. Not like a real, wakes up at 4am and wears a big white hat baker, but she makes sweet vittles in the oven more often than your average bear. And in fact, cookies are her specialty. But despite her arsenal of specialty biscotti and her 20-plus holiday varietals, she’s never really embraced the classic chocolate chip cookie. I mean, she’s made them and, as such, I had occasion to sample raw cookie dough in my earliest years, but my affection for this delicacy didn’t really blossom until junior high, when my school introduced its Market Day program. (If you don’t know, Google it.)
Yep, Market Day. And more importantly, Market Day frozen chocolate chip cookie dough balls. That’s right, only a greased cookie sheet and 14 to 16 minutes separated you from freshly baked chocolate chip cookies – just like Mom’s! (Or better, as the case may be.) And while that certainly revolutionized the after-school snack in my house, my siblings and I quickly discovered that exactly NOTHING separated us from delicious frozen raw cookie dough, any time we could sneak our greasy mitts to the freezer. And thus began the love affair.
So it was with fond memories of sweet, grainy dough and hard chocolate chips melting between my fingers that I ripped into Taste of Nature’s newest incarnation of my childhood treat: Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites.
Beware the Destroyer, a strange and powerful being who unleashes unwanted knowledge at unexpected time, often unaware that his or her simple comment has the power to ruin a perfectly good thing for years and years to come.
You may have come across a Destroyer during your lifetime: they often show up around Christmas, or Easter, or whenever one of your teeth falls out after second grade, if you know what I mean. They like to tell you what does or does not exist. They’re also very good at describing the makeup of hot dogs.
I’ve been a Destroyer before, simply by mentioning that I wasn’t a big fan of the cream cheese frosting that lined the top of the carrot cake my very best friend was eating at the time. Horrified at the concept of cream cheese on cake, my friend promptly spit out his dessert and hasn’t had a piece of carrot cake in over 7 years.
I don’t remember who the Destroyer in my life was, but I do remember what they told me: “Eating raw cookie dough will kill you.”
After reviewing the Awesomely Addictive Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites last month, I was really looking forward to trying these Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites too. Licking the bowl when Mom made brownies was always one of life’s little pleasures so I was hoping these would capture some of that magic.
Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites are the same size and shape as the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites – roughly the size of an M (or is it M&M? What’s the singular of M&Ms?). They are small pellets of “brownie dough” covered in chocolate. While this sounds good, they weren’t very good at all. They are very sweet but have a heavy bitter taste to them too that overpowers any good taste they might have. They remind me in no way, shape, or form of brownie batter and just don’t taste very good.
They just don’t compete on the same level as their Chocolate Chip cousins. If you want brownie batter, stick to licking the bowl (but not like this). If you want cookie dough candy, go with the Chocolate Chip variety. I simply can’t recommend Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites to anyone.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites – where have you been all my life? I had seen these occasionally in the past but never felt compelled to try them for some reason. Recently, for our Massive Candy Giveaway, A Taste of Nature (the company that makes them) donated a 12 pack of them for the giveaway and I asked if I could have one for myself to review.
I have always loved uncooked cookie dough (and brownie batter, and cake batter, etc., etc.) so I was curious to see how these tasted. The candies themselves are small – a bit bigger than M&Ms and rounder – the actual candies are various sizes too – they are not all (excuse the pun) “cookie-cutter” sized the same. They are essentially cookie dough dipped in chocolate. (NOTE: these contain NO eggs)
They got the taste just right – the chocolate to dough ratio is exactly right – the perfect balance of both. It’s sweet, but not too sweet and the dough even has that grainy, raw sugary texture to it just like real cookie dough. I didn’t see much/any actual chips in it, but it didn’t matter because the chocolate coating was the perfect chocolate accent for it.
If you like raw cookie dough even the slightest bit, I don’t see how you could not like Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bites. I promised myself I would only eat a few of them and save the rest for later and I ended up eating a whole box in one sitting. It took all my willpower not to keep the other 11 boxes for myself, but I did let them go to the giveaway winners.
They are truly awesome and worthy of the Candy Addict Awesomely Addictive Candy Award.
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