Enjoy Life and take a bite out of chocolate chip cookies again!

Back in February, I was told that I have a gluten intolerance.  This was…heartbreaking.  I’m a girl in love with her carbs.  Bread, pasta, pancakes, pizza, pretzels, muffins, bagels, donuts…all delicious and, sadly, all very glutenous.  It has been a challenge taking on a gluten-free lifestyle.  Expensive too.  Sometimes I just can’t justify spending money to try out a product that I might not like.  Granted, gluten-free products have come a long way over the years, but sometimes the trial-and-error method doesn’t work into my budget.  And, not surprisingly, there are times all I crave are things that I can no longer easily have.  One such thing was cookies.

That was until I was entered into an online contest during May’s Celiac Awareness Month on Gluten Free Networks.  Just for being a member of the site, you were entered into drawings for gluten-free prizes all month.  It just so happened that I won.

My prize was a box of gluten-free cookies from Enjoy Life.  They had just rolled out their new line of crunchy cookies.  I was going to receive one of four flavors: chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, crisp sugar, or vanilla honey graham.

My box arrived in the mail not long after and I received a box of their crunchy chocolate chip cookies.

I knew what dessert was going to be that night so after eating dinner, I broke into my prize and pulled out the cookies.  On the box, despite being listed as crunchy, they still look very raised and soft.  The cookies are pretty flat when you see them.  But…sometimes cookies baked at home are like that.  Let’s let the taste buds do the talking.

Now, my roommate does not have to be gluten-free, but she does eat that way sometimes because I’m the chef in this apartment and I refuse to cook things two different ways.  So, I handed her a cookie and got my own.  I was nervous about the first bite, but after taking it, feeling the crisp cookie break away and dance across my tastebuds…I was sold.

Not only did these taste like homemade cookies, they were really delicious!  The crunch was just the right kind that I like with cookies (despite that I much prefer soft-bake…but Enjoy Life makes those too and might be worth a try).  The chocolate chips were perfectly sweet and paired with the sweetness of the cookie base.  I admit that I even reverted back to being five years old at one point and dunked the cookie into my glass of almond milk.  A pre-packaged product that tastes like a homemade cookie isn’t an easy find, but I found it in this box.  The rest were devoured throughout the week and I savored every bite.

If a grocery store out this way ever starts carrying these delicious treats from Enjoy Life…I’ll buy them up.  I’m now dying to try the other flavors.  Gluten-free tastes oh, so good again!