Betty Crocker Warm Delights Fudgy Chocolate Chip Cookie

November 10, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Price: $1.50 (on sale)
Serving: 1 bowl, 2.9 oz.
Calories: 340
Fat: 16%, 11g
Sodium: 12%, 290mg
Protein: 4g
Carbs: 19%, 58g
Fiber: 7%, 2g

Betty Crocker says: With Betty Crocker Warm Delights, you’re just three minutes away from heaven!

Abi says: I love cookies. I love perusing Anna Ginsberg’s site, Cookie Madness. I do not enjoy cookies ‘baked’ in a microwave. That makes me sort of sad, because eating cookies from a microwave is pretty much as lazy as you can get with cookie making.

Actually, after the experience of ‘making and baking’ Betty Crocker’s Fudgy Chocolate Chip Cookie, I believe that I have decided which is the laziest of cookie-making methods. The winner? It is one that has made me loved at poker nights around Washington, DC (ok, the ones at my house).

Here’s what you do:

Buy a bag of Pillsbury Pre-Made, Pre-Shaped Cookie Dough
Preheat oven to 350 farenheit
Place a sheet of aluminum foil on a cookie sheet
Place 8 balls of raw cookie goodness of aluminum foil
Bake cookies for ~10 minutes
Devour cookies
Toss foil in the recycling bin
Put cookie sheet back in the cupboard

NO DISHES TO WASH! Oh, think you can beat that with your microwaved cookie? HA! I had to measure water, mix it up with a spoon, heat the thing, almost burn it (even though it was well below the minimum recommended heating time), then squeeze on some fudge that would have been better reserved for naughty body paint.

It was more of pain to make the microwaved version than to bake the Pillsbury dough. Plus, I had to eat it with a spoon. And I burned my mouth. Oh, and the complaining doesn’t stop there. You see, that fudge created some sort of wicked cement that glued burning hot cookie dough and scorched chocolate chips to the roof of my mouth. Ouch.

I enjoyed the Fudge Brownie Dessert from Betty Crocker’s Warm Delights line, but I derived only pain from this cookie. If you’re a masochist, this may be the dessert for you! Maybe the sadists out there could watch someone else eat it and suffer the embarrassing pain of a roof-of-mouth burn.

P.S. I’m going to try that lemon one. It may actually be the first review that involves full-fledged swearing. Or I could be lowering my hopes so much that I’m wildly impressed by microwaved lemon gel cake. Wish me luck.

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4 Responses to “Betty Crocker Warm Delights Fudgy Chocolate Chip Cookie”

MaryAnne on November 12th, 2006

Target really wants to tempt me with these. Everytime I head towards the checkout line, there they are on the endcap. The picture makes them look deliciously warm and gooey. I have always refused myself and reluctantly headed towards my friendly Target checker sans a Betty Crocker Warm Delight. Unlike you, I like to warm my cookies in the microwave and I’m proud to say I’ve done that with store bought chocolate chip cookies and then served them. Thanks for the review.
Lesley on November 13th, 2006

My advice? Skip the lemon and go for the chocolate cake (I can’t remember if it’s called just “chocolate cake” or something like “devil’s food”). I was disappointed in the brownie but LOVED the devil’s food.
Abi Jones on November 13th, 2006

Unfortunately for me, and fortunately for readers, I have already purchased the Lemon Cake item. When they go on sale I tend to scoop them up. I am wondering how I missed the chocolate cake one. I adore chocolate cake.
Mo-Mo on December 20th, 2007

It isn’t really a cookie……just delicious goo/dough that looks like a cookie…

Mine are just fine when I make them, in fact it’s usually too sweet and delicious for me to finish.