Reviews Filed Under 'Chocolate'
Price: $3.50 per package
Serving: 3 cookies, 1.1oz.
Calories: 160 per serving
Fat: 14%, 9g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 4%, 95mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 19g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugars: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Pepperidge Farm says: Journey into the texture of a Geneva cookie. An enchangtingly textured collage of indulgent delight. This beautifully decorated cookie is accompanied by a smooth chocolate later with crunchy pecans. An adventure in texture.
Abi says: Did Pepperidge Farm trademark Geneva? How does Lake Geneva feel about that? And the actual Swiss city of Geneva? Does it just refer to cookies? Could I create a line of Geneva crackers and get away with it?
Geneva cookies are seemingly exotic, European, and chocolatey. In reality, they are a ghetto cookie. The actual cookie part is not nearly as delicious as the biscuit found in Pepperidge Farm Milanos and the pecans (which are not a European nut at all, but rather a member of the North American hickory family) are merely shabby, palate-grating studs. Sure, the dark chocolate is good, but that’s certainly not the bulk of this cookie.
I’d prefer Godiva’s version of the Petit Ecolier anytime.
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Posted on October 24, 2007
Categories: All Natural, Vegetarian, Contains Nuts, Three Points, Chocolate, Three Stars, Pepperidge Farm, Cookies
Price: $0.49
Serving: 1.27oz., 1 bar
Calories: 130 per bar
Fat: 6%, 4g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 4%, 100mg
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrates: 8%, 24g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 11g
Weight Watchers Points: 2 points
CLIF Kids says: For years, we’ve been packing our kids’ lunches. We’re always looking for foods that are nutritious and organic. That’s why we’re taking a closer look at our kids’ snack options and so are states like California. Senate Bill 19 (SB19) is legislation that sets nutrition guidelines for California’s schools. CLIF ZBar is a CLIF Bar just for kids and the first snack created to be SB19 compliant. These organic energy bars were specifically created with active kids in mind, with the right combination of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, and 12 vitamins and minerals. We hope your kids enjoy them!
Abi says: These taste more like raw cookie dough than baked cookies. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
After seeing a post about the CLIF ZBar on Cookie Madness, I decided to keep these in the back of my mind until I made it back to Trader Joe’s and their ridiculously well-priced energy bar section. Sure enough, there were two varieties available: Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Brownie. Yum, I thought.
A lot of so-called Chocolate Chip energy bars fail to deliver on the chocolate, instead offering plenty of grainy protein-containing weirdness that just calls attention to the horrific lack of chocolate in the bar. ZBars avoid that problem completely, putting chocolate inside the bar and drizzling it outside.
The result is a satisfyingly virtuous energy bar made for kids, but perfect for adults who like something a bit sweet. Try one as a mid-afternoon break or bring one along the next time you go for an autumn jaunt in the park. You’ll be happy you followed my advice.
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Posted on September 28, 2007
Categories: CLIF, Two Points, Chocolate, Five Stars, Energy Bars
Price: $1.80 (on sale)
Serving: 1.2oz., 4 biscuits
Servings Per Container: 1
Calories: 170 per serving
Fat: 14%, 9g
Cholesterol: 1%, <5mg
Sodium: 2%, 40mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 7%, 20g
Fiber: 3%, <1g
Sugar: 10g
Weight Watchers Points: 4 per box
Godiva says: Meltingly rich, a traditional European biscuit is topped with a signature imprinted tablet of sinfully smooth milk chocolate.
We say: Sad but true: In the year 2000, we worked at a Seattle Godiva shop. It was the standard retail experience: jaded, ex-ballerina boss with a penchant for putting down collegiate-based aspirations; fun and wacky coworkers with a sense of fairness and enormous generosity when it came to the free chocolates box; cutthroat competition to make sales quotas; and lots of chocolate tasting.
When you work at Godiva, your job is to eat chocolates, well eat and sell chocolates. Also, to dip strawberries in chocolate while tourists take photos of you.
2000 was also the year that Godiva introduced Biscuits and Coffees (they may have also introduced hot chocolate at that time, but we can’t remember). During that summer, we made coffee every day and placed biscuits out for sampling every day. People freaking loved Godiva biscuits. I was not so keen; we didn’t get them for free and they didn’t seem to be any better than cheaper cookies available at the grocery store.
Some aspects of that cookie philosophy hold true. Godiva Signature Biscuits aren’t free and the cookie parts aren’t any more delicious than regular cookies: the Godiva chocolate that makes all of the difference. You could go and purchase the LU version, hoping that your Petit Ecolier will stand up to the scrumptiousness that is Godiva chocolate. Perhaps you enjoy setting yourself up for failure.
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Posted on September 5, 2007
Categories: Godiva, Four Points, Chocolate, Four Stars, Cookies
Price: $2.99
Serving: 2 Cookies, 1 ounce
Calories: 130 per serving
Fat: 11%, 7g
Sodium: 3%, 65mg
Protein: 1g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 16g
Fiber: 3%, <1g
Sugar: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 1.5 per cookie
Pepperidge Farm says: A refresher course in the finer points of indulgence. Between the exquisite cookies of this classic Milano awaits a refreshing duet of cool mint creme and rich, dark chocolate. Very cool indeed.
We say: We have four reasons for why a person might dislike this cookie. The first reason is that you might be allergic to mint. The second is that you are from a cookie deficient culture. Third, you abhor sentence fragments and have thusly abandoned all Pepperidge Farm products. And fourthly, you may be dismayed about the nipple-like protrusion from the biscuit portion of the cookie.
For those of you that could care less about whether or not your cookie has mammary resemblances, we’d like to recommend the Pepperidge Farm Mint Milano. The biscuit is crisp, the chocolate decadently dark, and the minty part neatly invigorating. Plus, the sandwich design means that you probably won’t get chocolate on your hands. Unfortunately, you are almost guaranteed to get little cookie crumbs everywhere. And boy do we mean everywhere.
Oh, you think you’d do a better job of eating this cookie? Come back and see us when you find crumbs in your cleavage.
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Posted on August 29, 2007
Categories: Mint, Three Points, Chocolate, Pepperidge Farm, Five Stars, Cookies
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