Friday, March 15, 2013

Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg

Russell Stover is a fixture at American drug stores at Easter with their large variety of single serving Easter eggs. New this year is the Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg.

Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg

This new egg follows the same sort of construction as the Red Velvet Santa first spotted for Christmas (also available as an egg). The center is an actual flour-based dough. Unlike other fondant centers which are just whipped up sugars, this one is a bit more complex. Here’s the ingredient list (forgive me for any transcription errors, it’s green printing on a cream background):

Milk chocolate (sugar, whole milk, cocoa butter, chocolate, soy lecithin, vanillin), Sugar, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (Wheat flour, brown sugar, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, sugar, chocolate morsels (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin), glycerine, high fructose corn syrup, palm oil, natural flavors (milk), salt, soy lecthin, xanthan gum, sodium bicarbonate), corn syurp, dairy cream, condensed milk, partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil, chocolate cookies (enriched wheat flour [contains niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, cocoa (processed with alkalai) vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oils) high fructose corn syrup, cornflour, chocolate, salt, diglycerides with citric acid, invertase and tocopherols.

So, instead of a short list, this is long and includes lots of flour, so it’s not gluten free. It also contains high fructose corn syrup a few times, which is disappointing because Russell Stover, while not being top of the line, is usually filled with plain old sugar and corn syrup. This is what happens when candy makers start adding bakery items. Unlike actually cookie dough, this has no egg products.

Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg

The egg looks like many of the other milk chocolate Russell Stover varieties. It’s on the flat side, and has two rows of glossy ripples. It’s about two inches long and one and a quarter inches wide.

The bite is soft and the center is, well, doughy. It’s not dry but not quite as moist as I expect. It has a grain to it, with the sugar being noticeable and I might have detected a little salt as well. The flour taste is not noticeable (sometimes real cookie dough can taste like raw flour).

Unlike cookie dough nugget products, this has more of the satisfaction of eating a spoonful of dough. The chocolate chips didn’t do much for me, but the milk chocolate coating was smooth, creamy and a sweet complement to the dough. I’d prefer a dark chocolate version, as I put dark chips in my cookies. It’s similar to their Brownie Egg (which it turns out, I’ve never reviewed), but naturally less chocolatey.

It’s a good rendition of cookie dough as a candy. I don’t know if I’d grab this over something like their marshmallows or the Pecan Delight, but I know there are some folks who will really appreciate this.

Related Candies

  1. Russell Stover Red Velvet Santa
  2. Russell Stover Big Bite Pecan Delight Egg
  3. Russell Stover Eggs (2009 edition)
  4. Russell Stover Eggs
  5. Cookie Dough Bites
  6. Russell Stover Eggs (2007 edition)
  7. Russell Stover Cream Eggs


Name: Cookie Dough Egg
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Russell Stover
Place Purchased: Walgreen's (Hollywood)
Price: $.89
Size: 1 ounce
Calories per ounce: 130
Categories: Candy, Easter, Russell Stover, Chocolate, Cookie, 6-Tempting, United States, Walgreen's

POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:33 pm Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyReviewEasterRussell StoverChocolateCookie6-TemptingUnited StatesWalgreen's

Comments
  1. I went to Walgreens today to check out their Easter selection. Saw some new eggs: Wedding Cake, Birthday Cake, and Crunchy Peanut Butter. Can’t wait to see your reviews! Just tried the Wedding Cake—very sweet.

    Comment by A on 3/02/14 at 5:04 pm #
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