Happy 60th Birthday, Chips Ahoy!
What do you get a cookie for its 60th birthday? An Amazon gift card? An iPhone? Cake? Maybe not to be eaten and preserved in an airtight cookie jar with a window that allows it to watch civilization crumble? Well, I can’t make any of those happen, but I will celebrate by eating the new Chewy Chips Ahoy! Confetti Cake Cookies that commemorate Chips Ahoy’s six decades of providing snacking goodness.
Baked into every one of those celebratory cookies are chocolate chips, cake-flavored white creme chips, and rainbow sprinkles. The packaging shows a yellow confetti cake with frosting and the white creme chips do give the cookie a cake-like flavor. Although, it’s more like cake frosting than yellow cake. As you can see, there are also regular Chips Ahoy chocolate chips, but the white morsels dominate the taste buds, so I’m not sure why they were included other than not wanting them to be left out of the party.
While colorful, the rainbow sprinkles have no texture or flavor, so they’re not what you’d find on cake frosting or on a kitchen floor if you allow a toddler to help you with baking. They’re just slivers of color that make the cookies look like they participated in a splatter painting class. They’re minuscule enough that I didn’t even notice them when I first started shoving cookies into my maw. Granted, my glasses prescription does need updating.
At first, I thought it was strange that these were Chewy Chips Ahoy and not regular crunchy Chips Ahoy. But then I eventually realized that the soft cookie’s texture represents the feel of cake. Besides, 2023 is also Chewy Chips Ahoy’s 40th birthday, so why not share the spotlight.
Chewy Chips Ahoy! Confetti Cake Cookies are a fine and decent tasting way to celebrate Chips Ahoy’s 60th birthday (and Chewy Chips Ahoy’s 40th). I can’t think of a better way for Chips Ahoy to celebrate the occasion. Although, to be honest, I don’t think any brand has thought of any other way to celebrate important milestones in a product’s history than to offer cake-flavored versions of their products.
DISCLOSURE: I received free product samples from Nabisco. Doing so did not influence my review.
Purchased Price: FREE
Size: 14.38 oz pack (Family Size)
Purchased at: Received from Nabisco
Rating: 7 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (2 cookies) 130 calories, 6 grams of fat, 3 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 85 milligrams of sodium, 20 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 11 grams of sugar (including 11 grams of added sugar), and 1 gram of protein.
Thanks for the review. I like Chips Ahoy cookies. I am generally not a fan of soft cookies. I might try these. The colors look intriguing.
My biggest complaint is the packaging. The ‘Resealable’ packaging is a lie. It breaks down and is useless immediately. The cookies get stale or you are forced to either repackage them in a container or eat them all. I am weak and gobble them so as not to let them go bad. It is the 21 century and we should be able to devise a Recyclable and Resealable cookie package (It’s called a paper bag). Oh, and get off my lawn!
The only way to eat Chewy Chips Ahoy is microwaved. It’s a game changer.
no doubt.
Huh, that never occurred to me! I’ve always wanted to like the Chewy cookies and have always found them dry. Perhaps I’ve just been eating them wrong this whole time! Might be time to give them another go around.
I totally understand why they went with the Chewy version for this but personally I find “something” in the Chewy recipe that gives the cookie an aftertaste that’s really off-putting. Crunchy Chips Ahoy 4 life!
I’m sorry I passed these by today. I think I’ll try and get some next week. Thanks for the review. They look good.