Flix Candy has introduced two flavors of the frozen treat known as Dippin’ Dots. Today I have the Ice Cream Flavored Dippin’ Candy - Cookies ‘n Cream for review. I can say from the start that these are better than the Ice Cream Flavored Dippin’ Candy Banana Split variety I reviewed last week.
The candy is made up of little spheres of vanilla, creamy confection (fake white chocolate) and little nuggets of chocolate cookies.
The “white coating” ice cream flavored spheres are made of sugar and a large amount of partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, and hydrogenated palm oil along with some nonfat milk powder and whey powder with a smidge of sorbitan monostearate and polysorbat 60 tossed in. The cookies bits are actual cookie bits with an enriched wheat flour base, sugar and a fair amount of cocoa.
Like my experience with the Banana Split variety, the texture is not terribly creamy and doesn’t have a smooth melt. It’s simply sweet. Taken on their own, they’re really quite horrible and equal to the rating of 2 out of 10. However, the little cookie bits are great. They’re crunchy and salty (there’s 160 mg of salt in a package) and crumbly and with a charcoal cocoa darkness. If I mistakenly got a bag that was all cookies and no cream, I’d have no complaint. In fact, if they did a 90% cookie with 10% cream, I think I’d actually buy these. But that’s not the case. My package was probably 50/50 and that’s too much of the fatty, greasy and sweet balls.
If you like Cookies ‘n Cream candy, I don’t think you can get much better at the mass market stores than the Hershey variety, and if you’re looking for the bite size version, try the Hershey’s Cookies n Cream Drops. (But it would be nice if someone would do an upscale version with real cocoa butter white chocolate.)
I really need to find out where to buy the little cookie bits in bulk. That’s the real find in this instance.
Related Candies
- Ice Cream Flavored Dippin’ Candy - Banana Split
- Cookies ‘n’ Cream Bites
- Glico Pocky Cookie Crush
- Oreo Bitter Bar (Japan)
- Russell Stover Cookies ‘n Cream Nest
- Hershey’s Drops: Milk Chocolate & Cookies n Creme
Name: |
Ice Cream Flavored Dippin’ Candy - Cookies ‘n Cream |
RATING:
- SUPERB
- YUMMY
- TASTY
- WORTH IT
- TEMPTING
- PLEASANT
- BENIGN
- UNAPPEALING
- APPALLING
- INEDIBLE
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Brand: |
Flix Candy |
Place Purchased: |
Candy Counter (Cayucos, CA) |
Price: |
$2.00 |
Size: |
1.6 ounces |
Calories per ounce: |
138 |
Categories: |
Candy, Flix, Warrell Corp, Cookie, Mockolate, 4-Benign, United States |
When “Benign” is the nicest thing that you can say about something that’s supposed to be a treat, it’s not worth it at all. I’ve been tempted before to buy a 1 or 2 rated candy just to see how bad it is, but benign doesn’t even merit that attention.
Everything about this bag reminds me of Cookie Dough Bites, which I think of as little nuggets of nasty fail, so I doubt I’d have ever tried them. Thank you for continuing to sample the good and bad for the sake of public knowledge.
Yeah, something about these just doesn’t seem right. And your review certainly doesn’t help their cause. I can’t imagine ever purchasing them, no matter what the alternatives might be.
i tried the banana split variety at SSE and they were truly terrible. i completely agree: greasy and weird. i’d be glad to never see these again.
i haven’t seen the cookie bits in person, but the pictures look like a chocolate version of keebler’s “gripz”, which are a lot like the garfield branded “cookie gems”, which i loved.
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