Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough Family Size Tub Review

In the wintertime Mr Bugg and I love to enjoy a few freshly baked cookies as our evening snack.  So we go through a few rolls of slice and bake cookie dough each month.  It's very convenient to just slice 3 or 4 and bake them in the toaster oven.

We generally buy the Kroger brand or Pillsbury but last time I went shopping there was a great sale on the family size tub of Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie dough and the side of the tub read "Make more than 3 dozen delicious NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Chocolate Chip cookies from the NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Family Size Tub. Just scoop, place and bake all the cookies you want, then snap on the resealable lid. So many cookies... so much fun!!!"

That statement sold me so I bought the tub thinking it would last us the whole month.  Well it did last the whole month but we did not care for the flavor or texture and found that we prefer the Kroger brand.  The Nestle dough has kind of an odd, honeyish taste to it and was just too sugary.  Also, the dough is very, very hard which caused problems with scooping and with baking. 

With the sticks of dough I usually cut slices or stick my cookie scoop inside of the plastic sleeve and can extract the soft dough without any problem. But with the Nestle dough it was so hard that I had to struggle to get the scoop into the dough.  It was like the consistency of hard ice cream.  Not impossible, but difficult to scoop.  And when I cooked the dough per the directions I had to add extra time (a lot of extra time) to the total baking time as the dough was so dense. 

Bottom line - we do not like the taste of this dough (cooked or raw), it's more expensive than Kroger or Pillsbury, and it's too hard to scoop.  Giving this three stars as it's kind of average and there are other brands I prefer.  But I don't really recommend it.  If it were the last cookie on Earth I'd eat it but I wouldn't buy it again otherwise.