Talenti Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
This week I finally got my hands on two elusive Talenti flavors introduced in 2015, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Raspberry Cheescake. I have a review of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough first, and a review of Raspberry Cheesecake is up next.
Do you remember how, when you were a child and you did something stupid, your parents would say, "We're not angry, just disappointed." Soul crushing. I don't think there is a word in the English language more fraught with emotion than disappointed when used in this context. I want you to summon all of those childhood memories; really get in tune with how it felt to disappoint your parents when I tell you, dearest reader, that I didn't dislike Talenti's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, I was just disappointed in it. *Gasp* CCCD is described as
A flavor loved by kids and adults who are secretly still kids, our upgrade of a beloved classic blends bits of real chocolate chip cookie dough and swirls of dark butter fudge.
I first tasted an overwhelming flavor of vanilla extract. Yes, you read that correctly, VANILLA EXTRACT! As you all know by now because you are devout readers of this blog, vanilla bean is way better than vanilla extract because vanilla extract tastes like alcohol. Why, Talenti, why? Did you deliberately decide to slum it with those unsavory store brand ice creams?
The fudge swirl and cookie dough chunks were quite good, but they were hard to enjoy because of the strong vanilla extract. The fudge swirl sat somewhere between milk chocolate and dark chocolate, but a bit closer to the milk chocolate end of the spectrum. It was rich and gooey, but could have been a tad thicker.
The chocolate cookie chunks were about the size of a garbanzo bean. (Lizzy recently used this analogy and it's perfect and I find it very hilarious, so I had to steal it.) The chunks were very frequent with at least one per bite and some bites had two to three chunks. The cookie dough was very grainy and eggy, everything you could want from a cookie dough mix-in.
This flavor was just so frustrating. It had some great elements, but there was too much vanilla extract to really enjoy the good parts.
Do you remember how, when you were a child and you did something stupid, your parents would say, "We're not angry, just disappointed." Soul crushing. I don't think there is a word in the English language more fraught with emotion than disappointed when used in this context. I want you to summon all of those childhood memories; really get in tune with how it felt to disappoint your parents when I tell you, dearest reader, that I didn't dislike Talenti's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, I was just disappointed in it. *Gasp* CCCD is described as
A flavor loved by kids and adults who are secretly still kids, our upgrade of a beloved classic blends bits of real chocolate chip cookie dough and swirls of dark butter fudge.
I first tasted an overwhelming flavor of vanilla extract. Yes, you read that correctly, VANILLA EXTRACT! As you all know by now because you are devout readers of this blog, vanilla bean is way better than vanilla extract because vanilla extract tastes like alcohol. Why, Talenti, why? Did you deliberately decide to slum it with those unsavory store brand ice creams?
The fudge swirl and cookie dough chunks were quite good, but they were hard to enjoy because of the strong vanilla extract. The fudge swirl sat somewhere between milk chocolate and dark chocolate, but a bit closer to the milk chocolate end of the spectrum. It was rich and gooey, but could have been a tad thicker.
The chocolate cookie chunks were about the size of a garbanzo bean. (Lizzy recently used this analogy and it's perfect and I find it very hilarious, so I had to steal it.) The chunks were very frequent with at least one per bite and some bites had two to three chunks. The cookie dough was very grainy and eggy, everything you could want from a cookie dough mix-in.
This flavor was just so frustrating. It had some great elements, but there was too much vanilla extract to really enjoy the good parts.
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