Steff D.
Yelp
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I purchased the Complete Vegan Cookie Collection for $52.99. This came with five different flavors along with a little postcard Cheat Sheet to let you know a) which order to try the cookies in, and 2) how to preserve freshness (they'll last four months in the fridge, eight months in the freezer).
Trying them according to Tubby's Taste suggestion, we had...
1. Taste of Paradise (coconut, oatmeal, cinnamon): "We like to describe this cookie as if a coconut and snickerdoodle cookie fell in love and had a baby!" These tasted exactly how you would think - like a sugar cookie was kissed with cinnamon sugar), though I thought the coconut was less noticeable.
2. Home Sweet Home (mango, coconut, lime): "Tubby's current favorite flavor including dried mango bits, coconut, and lime come together to make this cookie simply delicious!" These were my partner's favorite, he LOVED the accent of lime. I'm excited to try these again tonight, but I was too distracted to fully enjoy them because of the...
3. Caribbean Punch (grapefruit, pineapple, and hibiscus): "This pleasantly surprising cookie can be described as 'WOW! Refreshing!'" These were my favorite; and, not something I would ever order myself. Dark purple in color, I didn't think the pineapple was super noticeable, but I loved the gentle tang of grapefruit!
4. Island Spice (ginger and sweet molasses): "Folks who like ginger molasses cookies go for these all the time. They are decisive and know what they want out of life - including this cookie ;-)." Okay, this tasted like the holidays; it's a gingerbread cookie -- only soft and almost impossible to stop eating.
5. The Ascension (mocha oat chocolate chip): "A coffee and dark chocolate combo with a brownie texture. Have it early in the day for a delicious jolt of energy." Neither my partner or I liked this one at all. It was so underwhelming compared to the other four. If someone offered you one, you'd for sure *know* it was vegan (if you had a vegan cookie in the 90's you'll know exactly what I'm talking about). I wish there had been more coffee notes and maybe less of a sticky coconut oil texture.
Overall: I was delightfully surprised by these boldly flavored Jamaican-inspired vegan cookies! They weren't cloyingly sweet, and the flavor profiles were so interesting. I'm excited to see if they really do hold up in the fridge/freezer (I'm gonna try to keep those Island Spice ones until December because they're genuinely the best non-gingerbread/gingerbread cookie I think I've ever had).
I would totally recommend ordering these!