As most of you know by now, I'm a frequent shopper on the gourmet food aisle at TJ Maxx. When I bake the stuff I buy, I like to post my reviews just so you guys know what's good, as well as what to avoid. Usually the products aren't bad. (I wouldn't say they're worth their gourmet price tag, but they typically aren't horrible.) Well, friends, I found a horrible one: Sisters Gourmet Cinnamon Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix. Save your $3.00, and go buy a bag of all-purpose flour with it! That's pretty much all you get with this mix. The ingredients that came in the cookie dough mix were flour, sugar, and baking powder. It also came with a packet of cinnamon sugar. The instructions tell you to blend the cookie dough mix with shortening and an egg. This alerted me because there is NO flavoring whatsoever in these cookies. Not butter, and certainly not vanilla. Ew! I continued on.
I rolled the little balls of flavorless cookie dough in the cinnamon sugar and baked them just until the edges were set.
The centers were still gooey, but I took them out to ensure chewy cookies. Boy was I mistaken! When they cooled, they turned into flavorless cinnamon sugar hockey pucks. Disgusting! Worst of all, they had the "Captain Crunch" effect... ya know how it cuts the roof of your mouth? Let's put it this way: I wouldn't take them if they were free.
If you have a box of this mix already sitting in your pantry, you might be able to save them by using butter instead of shortening and adding at least 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla. But don't get your hopes up.
9 comments:
thats horrible, and such a waste of time..
I rather make butter cookie than doing this..
ergh
Pretty pictures at least!
at least they look nice! and flavourless :)
I made homemade Snickerdoodles last night and they're so easy... sure, I like to save a few steps and but the pre-made stuff too, but not if it has no flavor! Yuck! They look really good though.... :)
I'm totally with you on the shortening. Nothing beats the flavour of butter, even when I read up on a recipe claiming to be wonderful with shortening. Shortening just can't be trusted..haha. Even when I subbed 1/3 of the amount of butter for shortening, there was a huge difference in taste for my cookies. I never use shortening unless it's for cake decorating (wilton classes) and not for eating.
Haha, good to know! No one likes an edible hockey puck. What a sham Sisters is putting on! Thanks for the warning!
So glad you reviewed these. I can't tell you how many times I have been temped by the clever packaging! I guess I now know what they say is true about a book and it's cover...
hahah
omg
iloveyou yo
i just busted out laughing in the middle of class
oh mannn that's awful. I almost always use butter when things call for shortening. shortening tastes of nothing, i understand the flakeyness aspect of it, but I'm not a fan.
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