Z's Blind Taste Tests are a monthly feature on Gluten-Free from A to Z!
Z's Blind Taste Test #2: Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
How It Works: Z will cook/bake/prepare four different versions of the same gluten-free product and randomly label each version with a number. Then A and friends will try all four versions and rank them from most favorite to least favorite. The results will allow us to see exactly how different brands of gluten-free products compare to each other!
The Contenders:
- Cherrybrook Kitchen's Chocolate Chip Mini Cookies
- Enjoy Life's Soft Baked Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pamela's Products Chunky Chocolate Chip *
- Pamela's Products Simplebites Chocolate Chip Mini Cookies *
*I would have preferred to use four completely different brands of gluten-free chocolate chip cookies, but after looking in three different stores these were the only four different types of gluten-free chocolate chip cookies I could find. I was able to find some other brands of frozen cookie dough, but I didn't think it would be fair to compare fresh baked with packaged cookies, so I ended up using two different types of Pamela's Products cookies.
The Final Results:
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites (5 of 5 votes!)
- 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip (4 of 5 votes)
- 3rd Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen (2 of 5 votes)
- Least Favorite: Enjoy Life (3 of 5 votes)
A's Blind Rankings:
(For A's comments on each cookie, please see the individual A-Z reviews!)
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites
- 2nd Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen
- 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip
- Least Favorite: Enjoy Life
Our Friend RK's Blind Rankings:
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites - "winner! crunchy & tasty!"
- 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip- "close contender, generally good, reminded me of 'chips ahoy'"
- 3rd Favorite: Enjoy Life - "still in the medals! tasted more like gingerbread, chewy, strange gritty aftertaste"
- Least Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen - "fourth place, somewhat bland
Our Friend SK's Blind Rankings:
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites - "pretty good, crunchy"
- 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip - "lighter, more airy"
- 3rd Favorite: Enjoy Life - "super sweet, very chewy"
- Least Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen - "airy, kind of bitter aftertaste"
Our Friend HB's Blind Rankings:
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites - "crispy! ;0)"
- 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip - "soft, big chocolate chunks"
- 3rd Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen - "crispy, reminded me of Trader Joe's little chocolate chip cookies"
- Least Favorite: Enjoy Life - "chewy, but with a hint of ginger flavor, grainy after texture"
Z's Not Blind Rankings:
(For Z's comments on each cookie, please see the individual A-Z reviews!)
- Most Favorite: Pamela's Simplebites
- 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Chunky Chocolate Chip
- 3rd Favorite: Cherrybrook Kitchen
- Least Favorite: Enjoy Life
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