The Chewy Chips Ahoy! Gooey Caramel cookies are a lot smaller than the Chocofudge and Megafudge Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey Cookies we reviewed last year.
What kind of size difference are we talking about?
In cookie terms, they’re slightly wider than an Oreo. For those of you who’ve never had an Oreo, I’m going to put it into terms that might help you understand. If you saw someone with areolas the size of the Chewy Chips Ahoy! Gooey Caramel, you’d think they’re normal, unless they had three of them. But if another person had areolas the size of the other Chips Ahoy! Chewy Gooey cookie varieties, you’d want them to put their shirt back on.
At first, I didn’t think the cookies were at all gooey, much like the other Gooey varieties, but it turns out they were. I just didn’t eat them properly. Instead of eating them like any normal human being would, I had to split the cookie in half in order to experience the gooeyness, exactly like what’s shown on the product’s packaging.
Who the hell would eat these cookies in a way that involves the same motions used to open a newspaper? If you’ve watched Sesame Street, you know the proper way to eat cookies involves grabbing a whole bunch of them, throwing them at your mouth, and allowing most of the cookies to fall to the ground while yelling, “Om nom nom nom!”
You’d think a Chewy Chips Ahoy! cookie stuffed with gooey caramel would be awesome, like watching kittens yawn, but I can’t say that it is.
Each cookie is impregnated with a good amount of caramel, but the caramel flavor is lacking. It’s almost as if I’m eating regular Chewy Chips Ahoy! cookies, which isn’t bad, but there should’ve been more to it. If these cookies had emotions, I would buy a Twix candy bar, eat it in front of them, and then tell the cookies that’s how caramel should taste with cookies and chocolate.
I looked through the ingredients list and found most of the stuff needed to make caramel, but the list didn’t specifically say there’s caramel. It specifically says there are semisweet chocolate chips and lists its ingredients in between sad and happy emoticon mouths, but it doesn’t do the same for the caramel. I thought that was a bit strange.
Overall, the Chewy Chips Ahoy! Gooey Caramel cookies are disappointing. While they’re decent cookies and have a nice chewiness to them, I can’t say they’re addictive, which I think is a pretty good measurement of how good a cookie is. They don’t make me want to eat them faster than Law & Order can rip a story from the headlines.
(Nutrition Facts – 2 cookies – 140 calories, 45 calories from fat, 5 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 1.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 125 milligrams of sodium, 50 milligrams of potassium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 12 grams of sugar, and 1 gram of protein.)
Item: Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Gooey Caramel Cookies
Price: $2.98
Size: 10 ounces
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 5 out of 10
Pros: Gooey, if you eat them a certain way. Chewy. Twix. Lots of caramel. Om nom nom nom! Watching kittens yawn.
Cons: Disappointing. Lacks good caramel flavor. Smaller than other Chewy Gooey Chips Ahoy! varieties. Not addictive. The wasteful way I eat cookies.
I just about lost it at the areola reference. LOL! Outstanding work!
ahahaha! The Sesame Street cookie eating instructions cracked me up beyond belief!! Saved to my phone for future reference (and future laughs when needed!) Thanks for a great start to my Friday 🙂
Ah, and another seemingly good combination falls prey to the commercial brand stigma. It just NEVER is as good as it looks… most of the time. Thanks for the review, Marvo. Although I do like the chewy gooey Chips Ahoy line I was disappointed at the amount of ‘gooey’ content actually in each cookie. That, and I somehow missed reading they were the ‘chewy’ variety of Chips Ahoy always thinking they had the hard chewy texture of a regular Chips Ahoy cookie with the gooey center.
Lol @ the areola reference, btw.
The last thing I had with a filling that looked like that, was THIS, I think with Betty Crocker mix, couldn’t find it on Paula Deen site: http://ambers-recipes.blogspot.com/2009/08/paula-deens-symphony-brownies.html It was awesome, but of course brownies are going to be awesome when you stuff a pound of chocolate in the middle.
Good you reviewed the cookies, else I might’ve been tempted to try ’em.
Did you try them microwaved? That’s the only thing that makes Chips Ahoy cookies bearable for me. And I’m sure the caramel filling would be delicious after 10 seconds of heat…mmmmmm
I didn’t because t believe microwaving Chewy Chips Ahoy makes them extremely fragile.
they are amazing when microwaved. o my goodness
When I purchased these cookies I thought they would be the same size as the regular chips ahoy cookies but these are a joke. They are so small, not worth the money.
I am a big caramel and chocolate fan, so when i found out the chips ahoy offered a cookie that combined the two I was ecstatic. I was so excited to get home to try the cookies, when I toke a bite i realized that they taste more like nabisco fig newton cookies (eww!!!). The caramel in these cookies were disgusting, the tasted like a fig filling. I am at the point where I want to throw the entire pack away, my kids or husband can agree. They were on sale for $2.77, i didnt loss to much. Please guys save your money they are not worth it.
I got the Choco-Fudge flavor today. I am not normally a regular Chips Ahoy! fan and I usually stick to LU Le Petit Ecolier cookies or Pepperidge Farms Milano Melts, so decided to something different. They are …ok. Just ok. They are not actually gooey at all, and do not taste much different than the regular Chips Ahoy! Chewy brand. Heating them up doesn’t make a difference either. Chips Ahoy! doesn’t do well heated. Meh…what a disappointment. I guess I will go back to my Pepperidge Farms and LU.
Where on earth are these cookies sold? Can’t find in the stores. Please Help!!!