Product: Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free Crispy Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies – $3.99+
The Cookie Monster in me has struck again.
I can’t help myself. See cookie. See that it is gluten-free. See me devour. Cookie…good.
But I’m so particular about my cookies. No, really, I am. You see…in most cases I want my cookies to have that first initial snap to it and then be soft and chewy in the middle. To me, that is the perfect cookie.
So what compelled me to purchase a bag of Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free Crispy Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies while on a recent grocery shopping expedition is beyond me. Crunchy cookies…not my thing. The fact that even the bag declares that these are crispy and crunchy should have put me off immediately. But…they didn’t. Which can mean only one thing…I wanted gluten-free cookies, dammit!
Opening up the package, what I find inside is two small sleeves of seven cookies. The serving size is two cookies, so I went ahead and doled that out. These cookies are very thin, and you can definitely tell simply from handling them that they are going to be “crispy crunchy.” I was hoping they wouldn’t be like munching on miniature, wafer-thin hockey pucks. But there was only one way to find out.
What I discovered was Trader Joe’s managed to bake with rice flour and do it right! Yes, these cookies do come with a crunch to them. But, just as the package states, they have an amazing buttery flavor to them and they just sort of melt in your mouth. No bite lacked chocolate chips. In fact, these tasted…wait for it…homemade.
Ingredients couldn’t be simper: semi-sweet chocolate chips, rice flour, butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda, salt, xanthan gum, water. I have every single one of those ingredients in my own home. No joke. No weirdly named chemicals. No high fructose corn syrup. Nothing that I couldn’t just reach into my pantry and fridge, knock together, and bake up myself. How fantastic is that.
For being anti-crunchy cookie, these won over the cookie monster raging inside of me. Crispy…check. Crunchy…check. Chocolate-chippy (it’s an adjective, people!)…check. Buttery, melt-in-your-mouth flavor…check. Homemade…not this time. And I’m okay with that. Because when it comes to gluten-free cookies, Trader Joe’s did something so very right with these. I need to pick up another pack next time I’m in Louisville and visiting our local Trader Joe’s.
Even if crispy crunchy cookies aren’t your thing…give these a try. They will win you over as they did me.
The Celiathlete 