It's holiday cookie madness I tell ya'! Your standing in line for you vente double latte mocha frappa whatever and there they are, staring right at you, calling your name. "It's Christmas! Eat me!" With their snowy white frosting and chocolate hats. And that's what I do. I plop down my $2 and change and grab a Christmas snowman cookie to go so I can eat it in private shame. After gobbling it down while walking to work (yes! exercising and eating at the same time!) I can honestly say--it didn't suck. The cookie is not as sweet as you'd think with that icing. It's kind of a semi-sweet sugar cookie without the sprinkling of sugar baked into it. It's more like a thin shortbread with a layer of frosting. The cookie was crispy and crumbly but not so much so that it left a trail of crumbs on your shirt. The frosting was just thick enough to also not overpower the cookie. All in all, for a mass produced cookie, it won't too bad. Being the junk food junkie I can be, I'd say this is probably the perfect compliment to whichever coffee or tea you get at Starbucks. It's also a bigger than my hand sized cookie for under $3 which you know in my book is a big plus. Overall flavor is decent, though it mostly just tastes like a basic Christmas cookie. There wasn't anything that made me go wow, but for what it is and where I got it, it was fine. And yes, if I was there getting something and was in a cookie mood, I'd probably go holiday and get the snowman again. It was just good enough to fulfill my sweet tooth craving--at the moment.
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