Betty Crocker Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies Review

In this rather harsh economic climate-despite what THEY say we are in a recession-dessert is becoming more and more of a luxury.  The Corner Bakery and Panera Bread are still my favorite dessert haunts, but with the price of everything going up I have cut back substantially on my visits to those two monuments to the confectionary arts. 

But, I still have a voracious sweet tooth, especially when it comes to chocolate and chocolate chip cookies and one of the low cost ways I have found to appease it comes in the form of packaged cookies from Betty Crocker found in my local Jewel grocery store aisle.  One variety is Oatmeal Chocolate Chip. Why Betty Crocker? Read on fellow cookie lover read on.   

My Viewpoint

Betty Crocker Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies are a blend of real oatmeal and semi-sweet Chocolate Chips.  The result: well they are mixed.  While the cookies themselves are tasty, they are rather flat, and frankly look nothing like the cookies on the package. 

Betty Crocker advertises Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies as homemade goodness in 20 minutes (10 minutes per patch).  The receipt calla for a whopping one stick of butter, but the package makes 3 dozen, 2-inch cookies at 2.5 grams of fat.  Not too bad.   

I recommend Betty Crocker Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies; for $1.52 a package they are a bargain compare to the $13.00 I would have to pay at The Corner Bakery.  Hey, in life there is always compromise.  And they will do for everyday, but for special occasions...

Ingredients:

Enriched Flour Bleached (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Semisweet Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin, Artificial Flavor, Milk), Rolled Oats, Brown Sugar, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil, Baking Soda, Salt, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Corn Starch, Artificial Color, Artificial Flavor, Nonfat Milk, Egg, Soy Flour.              

Nutritional Information:

One serving (2x 2 inch cookie) of Betty Crocker Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies contains 110 Calories, 2.0 grams of fat (including 1.0 grams of saturated fat), 0mg of Cholesterol, 80mg of Sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 1.0 grams of dietary fiber, 12 grams of sugar, 1 gram of protein.