Trader Joe's Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

November 23, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Trader Joe’s Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Price: $3.50
Serving: 1 cookie, 1oz.
Servings Per Container: 16
Calories: 120
Fat: 9%, 6g
Cholesterol: 16, 20mg
Sodium: 2%, 60mg
Protein: 1g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 17g
Sugar: 8g
Fiber: 0%, 0g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Points

Trader Joe says: No Preservatives, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors

Abi says: I adore Consumer Reports Magazine. Not because they tell me the best car, vacuum cleaner or microwave to purchase. Or because they let me know when it makes the most sense to pay extra for organic foods, but because they completely agree with me when I state that the Trader Joe’s Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookie dough makes the best pre-made (mixed?) cookies in existence.

No, they still aren’t real homemade cookies, but you’d be hard-pressed to find someone that could tell the difference between these and a batch made with the recipe off the back of a package of Toll House Chocolate Chips. Well, I guess the difference would be that these all cook up to a uniform size and degree of doneness while homemade cookies have a greater element of individuality.

By using normal, non-industrial ingredients, Trader Joe’s manages to skirt all of the strange not-quite-made-with-butter pre-made cookie shortfalls. Check out this list of ingredient simplicity:

Flour
Chocolate
Sweet Butter
Sugar
Brown Sugar
Eggs
Molasses
Vanilla
Salt
Baking Soda

It is no coincidence that those are the exact same ingredients I use when I make chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Of course, now you’re probably thinking “If these are so simple, couldn’t I just make some regular cookies at home? From my own ingredients?” Well, you could. But then you’d be left with a pile of dirty dishes when you should be enjoying fresh from the oven caramel brown buttery chocolate chunk studded mounds of deliciousness.

And that would be a shame.

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7 Responses to “Trader Joe's Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough”

Heather B. on November 27th, 2007

Those things are the shit. I love them. The end.
Marvo on November 27th, 2007

Oh God, I just licked my screen!
Nomie on November 28th, 2007

Molasses? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a chocolate chip cookie recipe with molasses in it.
Anna on November 28th, 2007

Those look like the ones I made two days ago. Wow.
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