Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Nestle Girl Scout Cookie Bars - Thin Mints

Nestle Crunch Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mint Candy BarThere was a time when I was obsessed with Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies. I would buy boxes of them and gobble up what should have been months of rations in mere weeks. Somewhere along the way they lost their charm though. I found out that there were better cookies out there, cookies made with real chocolate and more importantly, cookies that were available consistently.

So when I heard that Nestle was coming out with a limited edition candy bar version called the Nestle Crunch Girl Scount Cookie Thin Mint Candy Bar, I knew that the internet would be abuzz. But I didn’t really care one way or the other. Q.bel makes a superb wafer bar with mint creme with real ingredients, why would I want a version made by Nestle?

But there I was at CVS last evening and I saw them at the check out, and I figured I should give them a chance.

So here’s one of the main reasons I stopped eating Thin Mints, the ingredients. It’s not real chocolate. The current ingredients, according to the Girl Scout Cookies website:

Girl Scout Thin Mints Cookies Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid) sugar, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated palm kernel and/or cottonseed oil, soybean and palm oil), cocoa, caramel color, contains two percent or less of cocoa processed with alkali, invert sugar, whey, leavening (baking soda, monocalcium phosphate), cornstarch, salt, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, oil of peppermint.

So no chocolate, barely even enough cocoa in there to even be considered an actual mockolate product. But then I was curious how one of the kings of mockolate, Nestle, would treat an already established mockolate cookie.

Nestle Crunch Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mint Candy Bar

The Nestle bar is formatted like the Nestle Crunch Crisp Bar. Again, this bar has some wonderful attributes, a series of crispy light wafers filled with greasy chocolate cream and then covered in mockolate and some more little rice crispies. The change here is the darker mockolate product and peppermint. The ingredients are equally ghastly:

sugar, wafer (wheat flour, cocoa processed with alkali, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, corn syrup, salt, baking soda, soy lecithin), hydrogenated coconut oil, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, cocoa processed with alkali, rice flour, nonfat milk, and 1% or less of: natural mint flavor, barley malt, whey, artificial and natural flavor, salt, emulsifiers (soy lecithin, sorbitan tristearate, lactic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides), ground peanuts.

But hey, it’s candy. It’s a treat, and in this case, for $1.19 it’s only 1.3 ounces and 200 calories. It’s a limited edition production, so it’s not an every day thing. 

Nestle Crunch Girl Scount Cookie Thin Mint Candy Bar

The wafer layers are structurally sound and lightly flavored with cocoa. The cream between has a light minty flavor and rather smooth texture and though it’s sugary, it’s not overly sweet. The mockolate coating is firm and doesn’t flake off but doesn’t do much else. In cool temperatures, especially just slightly chilled, this is a pretty good bar. But in the warmth of summer, it’s a sticky mess. It’s not too sweet, the textures and proportions are excellent. Still, my interest level is low because of the sub-par ingredients and lack of an authentic chocolate coating.

Yup. I’ll stick with the Mint Q.bel Wafer Bars or maybe Mint Milanos. I can’t say I’m disappointed at Nestle’s take on the Girl Scout Cookie, it’s entirely consistent and I guess that’s the sad part. It could have been great.

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Name: Crunch Thin Mints Candy Bar
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Nestle
Place Purchased: CVS (Silver Lake)
Price: $1.19
Size: 1.3 ounces
Calories per ounce: 154
Categories: Candy, Nestle, Cookie, Kosher, Limited Edition, Mints, Mockolate, 6-Tempting, United States, Sav-On/CVS

POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:21 am Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyReviewNestleCookieKosherLimited EditionMintsMockolate6-TemptingUnited StatesSav-On/CVS

Comments
  1. I really enjoy Girl Scout cookies. I thought the Thin Mint Crunch bar was a 9. The Samoas flavor was great too, although I liked the Thin Mint better. I’ve yet to try the Tagalong flavor but I’m thinking it might be the best.

    Comment by Amity on 5/30/12 at 1:11 pm #
  2. though i don’t find myself nearly as much a fan of the thin mint as i used to be, i am definitely looking forward to trying these. it’s a total bummer than you didn’t like them.  makes me fearful.  but i like a lot of gross things, so we’ll see… there’s certainly enough hype surrounding them.

    Comment by the candy fan on 5/30/12 at 2:35 pm #
  3. I must be naive, because I assumed these bars would contain real chocolate.  How disappointing to learn they don’t (at least not the mint one).  I will probably still try the Samoas version, though.

    Comment by Jane on 5/31/12 at 3:13 pm #
  4. I love the thin mint crunch bars!!!! I can’t eat just one they are so delicious and I can honestly say I’m addicted to them. I hope they keep making them please!!! I recommend people to try them. I’m addicted to thses bars smile

    Comment by Daisy Ruiz on 9/02/12 at 8:34 pm #
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