Trader Joe’s is at it again, and just in time for the holiday season. Doing what they do best, they took one of your favorite cookies, and dipped that sugar filled treat into rich dark chocolate. The triple ginger variety gets the dip this time in what is sure to be an instant classic lining the plates of every holiday party. Since this is the season of ginger for me, and I have been pimping out my blog with just about every imaginable ginger product in sight, I had to scoop this one up off the shelf and give it a try. Here’s how it went:
The first thing that caught my eye was the holiday packaging. Trader Joe’s graphic design team has really been focusing lately on their boxes, creating something that you’d be proud to stuff in a stocking or wrap in a gift basket. It’s a small sleeve of 15 cookies weighing 6 ounces and presented in a long sleeve. I unwrapped the box and removed the plastic wrap. I took a small sample size of 3 cookies (which is a serving size @ 170 calories per). I bit into the first one, biting through a crisp ginger cookie with a rich artfully crafted dark chocolate dip. The sweet, bitter dark chocolate hits first, and finishes with ginger cookie crumbling around the small chunks of candied ginger, filling your mouth with the spice of this chewy candy. I could imagine this being great with eggnog to wash it all down. It gave me the holiday cheer, and I polished off the remaining two cookies being careful not to dive back into the package as I just might deplete the rest of my stock.
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