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.”

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Baked goods combined with candy is an idea so good your head will practically explode just thinking about it! That’s what my head nearly did when I first read about Santa’s Surprise Cookies–peanut butter cookies stuffed with, surprise! A mini Snickers.

Though I love classic peanut butter cookies, I have to say they can tend to be a little on the crumbly and dry side (you know, enough that you definitely want to have a glass of milk or mug of coffee nearby). What the mini Snickers surprise offers, however, is the chewiness factor that the basic peanut butter cookie so often lacks. It thus creates, dare I say it, a near-perfect peanut butter cookie! If you want, you can jazz the cookie up even more by adding some dark chocolate chips in the center. (I opted to do this in lieu of the chocolate drizzle the recipe calls for. That just seemed like extra work!)

• Santa’s Surprise cookie recipe

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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.

• Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites webpage

Buy Fudge Brownie Cookie Dough Bites online:

• at Candy Direct
• at Amazon

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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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