What is it?
Despite the cutesy “Poppins” moniker, Reese’s Cookie Dough Poppins are just… little balls of ready-to-eat peanut butter cookie dough, no more, no less. Is it just me or has it only been within the past few years that companies began selling “safe to eat raw” cookie dough nuggets? Why did it take them so long to start doing this?
How is it?
In the case of this one, they probably should have kept fine-tuning the recipe before release. While there was nothing inherently bad or offensive about this particular Poppins, there wasn’t really much to love, either. The texture is a familiar one in line with any kind of unbaked cookie dough — though I was expecting a bit more grittiness — but the taste is lackluster.
Look, I don’t know how you describe the taste of peanut butter as anything other than “like peanut butter,” but this was like half the taste of peanut butter. Maybe peanut, no butter. That’s not quite it, but I don’t know how to explain it. The PB flavor was there initially, but it just trailed off at the end.
Anything else you need to know?
You can’t bake these. Also, while there are a few safe-to-eat raw cookie dough products on the market that you can bake, there are many others that aren’t meant to be eaten raw. There’s a chance you could get some Salmonella from the eggs or flour or, perhaps more seriously, E. coli from the latter. Thankfully, the only risk with this edible Reese’s dough is the disappointment of spending over $7 on something you shouldn’t spend more than a buck on.
Conclusion:
Even though these aren’t the worst things I’ve ever eaten, I’d never buy them again, and never in good conscience could I recommend that anyone spend $7 on them. But if I was at a party, and they had a tray of Poppins (not sure what strange party this is, but just pretend), I might eat, like, a couple. But only if it was the only dessert. You know, at the world’s weirdest party.
Purchased Price: $7.49
Purchased at: Hy-Vee
Rating: 6 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (5 pieces) 120 calories, 5 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat, 25 milligrams of sodium, 17 grams of total carbohydrates, 9 grams of total sugars, 0 grams of fiber, and 2 grams of protein.
That second pic looks nasty, like it was a hot day and they sat out for awhile
Every Sunday I eat raw cookie dough and I’ve never had an issue in my life. I portion it out and put it in the over for like 5 mins but it’s basically raw when it comes out so I’m pretty sure calling something edible cookie dough is just a way to sell you more things. At least if you buy the cookie dough from the refrigerated aisle in the grocery store you can definitely eat it without issue.
Possibly if you’re making your own from dry things and raw eggs that could be different though. I eat the toll house dough all the time and it’s fine. Society tries to sell more products in any way possible
I BOUGHT THE SAME 7OZ PB REESES cookie dough Poppins for $99 CENTS AT GROCERY OUTLET AND THERE NOT EXPIRED I WISH it would let me post pictures I’m so sorry ? you had to pay that much ..the best advice I can give you is to look up GROCERY OUTLET SUPERMARKET NEAR YOU I promise you won’t regret it ?