Enjoy Nastiness

Did I mention in the other Enjoy Life review how much I hate cookies that are made with raisins and dates as a binder (not as a visible ingredient like chocolate chips are a visible ingredient, though I'm no fan of that either)?  Yeah.  I hate it.  Usually I would see this with "low-cal" cookies to cut the calories in the eggs and milk and whatever.  These have no eggs or dairy.  And with something that contains absolutely no ingredients, you gotta use something to keep it all together.

So your good news, if there is any, is that these cookies contain no gluten, wheat, nuts, soy, eggs, or dairy.  They even don't contain fish or shellfish, which seems very "duh," but which also might have improved the flavor somewhat.  Two tiny little cookies contain 120 calories somehow.  And these are really really tiny.  Even compared to the snickerdoodles.  Just incredibly teensy.

I am not sure how one makes a chocolate cookie with no dairy.  Apparently the answer is "badly."  I could smell the odor of dried fruit from the moment I opened the package.  This one also uses dates, as well as grape, apple, and pear juice.  I guess I'm of the mindset that a chocolate cookie should never contain fruit.  But what do I know?  I decided to give them a shot anyway. 

Horrible. 

The texture was the same as the snickerdoodles, but more offensive because the flavor was just so terrible.  It was like eating a wad of date puree masquerading as a chocolate cookie.  There was probably something like chocolate in there, but it didn't really taste like chocolate.  It tasted like it was something trying to be chocolate.  I suppose if you're a celiac vegan and you've forgotten what a brownie tastes like, maybe it works out for you.  If you're simply celiac, then I hear Betty Crocker has some gluten free brownie mix (I have some in the cupboard, actually, so I'll review it at a later date) that's pretty good.  I wouldn't even bother eating these. 

The only time someone should eat these are:

1.  You're the aforementioned celiac vegan with multiple other allergies
2.  You're stuck on a desert island and this is the only food available
3.  Your mother buys them for you, thinking she's doing something good for you, and you don't want to see her cry

And I might be flexible on #3.  Hopefully your mom could deal with the fact that the cookies she bought you tasted like ass.