Z's Blind Taste Test #5: Gluten-Free Ginger Cookies

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Z's Blind Taste Test #5: Gluten-Free Ginger 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:

1. Trader Joe's Gluten Free Ginger Snaps
2. Nana's Ginger Cookie
3. Pamela's Products' Spicy Ginger Cookies *
   
4. Pamela's Products' Ginger Mini Snapz *
   

*I would have preferred to use four completely different brands of gluten-free ginger cookies, but after looking in three different stores these were the only four different types of gluten-free ginger cookies I could find. So, like the chocolate chip cookie blind taste test, I ended up using two different types of Pamela's Products cookies.


The Final Results:

• Most Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz (3 of 6 votes!)
  
• 2nd Favorite: Trader Joe's (4 of 6 votes)
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies (4 of 6 votes)
  
• Least Favorite: Nana's (4 of 6 votes)

A's Blind Rankings:
(For A's comments on each cookie, please see the individual A-Z reviews!)

• Most Favorite: Trader Joe's
  
• 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snaps
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies
  
• Least Favorite: Nana's

Our Friend RK's Blind Rankings:

• Most Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz - "great! crunchy! crispy! yum!"
  
• 2nd Favorite: Trader Joe's - "crunchy, slight lemony taste"
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies - "really chewy - makes me worry about the health of my jaw! interesting subtle flavor under the strong ginger"
  
• Least Favorite: Nana's - "gritty - but weirdly yummy, very gingery, kind of cakey and more like eating cookie dough than cookies"

Our Friend SK's Blind Rankings:

• Most Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz - "tastes just like normal ginger snaps - yummy!"
  
• 2nd Favorite: Trader Joe's - "crunchy, sweet, but less ginger-snappy than my favorite"
  
• 3rd Favorite: Nana's - "way cakey-er, not at all crunchy, interesting, very light in weight and flavor"
  
• Least Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies - "very gingery, really chewy - too many would hurt my jaw!"

Our Friend MS's Blind Rankings:

• Most Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz - "balanced flavor, nice and crispy"
  
• 2nd Favorite: Trader Joe's - "crispy, strong ginger flavors"
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies - "really strong ginger flavor, soft but firm, almost too much"
  
• Least Favorite: Nana's - "not as gingery, grainy"

Our Friend GW's Blind Rankings:

• Most Favorite: Trader Joe's - "nice, crispy but not tough with a pleasant ginger taste"
  
• 2nd Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz - "more of a biscuit tan a cookie, nice sharp ginger tast, very crisp but also maybe too tough to what I prefer"
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies - "these taste like what i want a ginger cookie to taste like but what happened to these cookies? kind of like they got baked with taffy!"
  
• Least Favorite: Nana's - "wait, am i eating less flavorful cakes of brown sugar? te taste is not great and it is only slightly gingery, but there is something about the texture that is very nice and compelling"

Z's Not Blind Rankings:
(For Z's comments on each cookie, please see the individual A-Z reviews!)

• Most Favorite: Nana's
  
• 2nd Favorite: Trader Joe's
  
• 3rd Favorite: Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz
  
• Least Favorite: Pamela's Spicy Ginger Cookies