Monday, September 7, 2020

Review: Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles

Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles

Trader Joe's has a lot of great vegan products. Their vegan soft-baked snickerdoodles are also gluten free and allergen friendly. 

These plant-based cookies are very soft and a little chewy. They're not dry or crumbly at all. 

They have some unexpected ingredients to keep them so soft and allergen-friendly (full ingredient list below). I can taste a subtle hint of fruit from the dates and fruit juice. 

These are so soft it's hard to compare them to other cookies. They're very good, but not what I picture when I think of snickerdoodles. They remind me more of molasses cookies even though they don't have any molasses in them. 

I was disappointed by how much plastic packaging there is. It doesn't seem necessary to have them in a tray. It was hard to open and not resealable. 

Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles unwrapped

Close up of Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles

Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles cross section

Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles ingredients:
Sorghum flour, brown sugar, dates, sunflower oil and/or safflower oil, pear juice concentrate, water, rice syrup, grape juice concentrate, flaxseed meal, baking soda, xantham gum, salt, cinnamon, vanilla extract (water, ethyl alcohol, vanilla bean extractives), natural flavors, rosemary extract (to preserve).

Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles ingredients

Review: Trader Joe's Soft Baked Snickerdoodles
First impressions: Soft baked is accurate, they are very soft. 
Taste: Sweet with a subtle fruity taste
Texture: Very soft, a little bit chewy
Can you tell it's vegan? Maybe
Better than other vegan options? Close but I think Sprouts has some better vegan cookies
Worth buying again? Yes
Overall: 4/5