About the manufacturer, Pepperidge Farm is a Connecticut-based food processing company.
Currently a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company, they manufacture breads, cookies, and crackers, among other, and also known for distributing Tim Tams by Arnott's, another Campbell subsidiary.
Today we will be reviewing Chesapeake™ Dark Chocolate Pecan.
Category: Cookie
Class: Crispy Cookies
Packed comfortable in a foil paper bag and weighing 204 grams, it looks quite appealing and classy with that easy on the eyes design, including a very clear and closeup visual of the delectable cookies.
Availability: If there's an SM Supermarket or SM Hypermarket near you, then it's easy to find these things. Other spots like Puregold and Robinson's do not sport these babies, same goes with conveniences stores like 7-11, Mini-Stop and Family Mart.
Going to your good ol' PX goods stores might help you too or ordering it online would be comfortable, but the waiting game is there to put stress on you if you crave for these niceties.
Rating: 2 out of 4
Quality: Well it promised to be crispy cookies, and it delivers quite well. It's not powder-dry like crackers and you can still get a good helping of those dark chocolate chips. The texture that the pecans bring in is quite nice too. It does not bring in that feeling of home-baked goodness that many people look for and the overall taste of the cookie leaves more for wanting.
Rating: 2 out of 4
Value for Money: Packed in 2 small trays of 4 cookies each, these little ones come in at a little under Php17.00 per piece, as the bag is pegged at Php135 each. One could want more as the bag contains only a little amount of heaven.
Rating: 2 out of 4
Overall: It delivers as promised but I would not buy it again.
Credits to: websites in links.
COOKIES, we all love them, we all hate them too.
ONLINE REVIEWS, we look for them, we believe them, for the most part anyway.
In today's world where the internet plays a very big role in all industries, I find it useful to have a COOKIE REVIEW PAGE dedicated to the Philippine market.
We will be reviewing many products from hereon out. Why would I want to do this? Well, it has been very useful for me to know about things before I use or buy them, same thing with traveling, I want to know other people's experiences in a place where I plan to stay.
To cut it short, this is better than doing "Trial and Error." Nobody would want to spend money on anything only for it to become a huge disappointment. So here I am trying to help other people with my take on something a little bit trivial but can soothe a person's body and soul from pains, daily pressure and stress, and something that can generally make your mood for the rest of the day, Cookies.
So how do I this? Here are the factors that I look at:
Value for Money. In today's world of hugely inflated prices and soaring demand for commodities, it is really hard to get a good deal out of every hard earned peso. So, is it something worth spending big money on, or can you find something better at the same price?
Availability. We all crave for something at some points in our lives. Now is it easy to satisfy that craving? Can you just hop on a jeep to the nearest big grocery store or do you need to crawl through mind-numbing traffic just to get to that specialty outlet?
Quality (Texture, Contents, Taste). All of us have experienced being let down by a product at least once. We've all heard about promises of this and that only to become disappointed after the experience. Our question here is "Is the promise delivered?"
The rating scale.
We will use a 4-point scale. Why? So we can avoid being "somewhere in the middle" ratings. This scale is frequently used in surveys and studies too to come up with more definitive scoring and findings.
So, this things are what we would look at for quality:
Texture - Does the packaging say something about it? Is is supposed to be crisp cookies or soft ones? If none are indicated, you can see which category it belongs to (read: Cookie Types)
Contents - Again, what does the packaging say about it? Did it promise things like lots of nuts and fruits? Thousands of chocolate chips or fudge? If not then that would be an absolute letdown, and we do not want any cookie lover to experience that.
Taste - What does it give your mouth? Does it give you all sugar and nothing else? Does it taste as if margarine was all that was used in it? Does it taste anything like it is supposed to? If not, then it is a poor cookie. A good one should give you heaven from the first bite through the last.
Being the first of many write-ups to come, we will talk or try to shed a little more light unto those little pieces of heaven we all love, cookies.
Let's learn about the word first. Cookies.
The word is coined from the 18th century Dutch term "Koekje," meaning "little cake."
Now the common types.
BAR COOKIES. These are commonly pour into pans or trays, later cut in bite-sized
pieces. Also known as "tray-bakes." The most popular example: Brownies.
DROP COOKIES.
Chocolate chip cookies anybody? Yup, that's one perfect example of this
classification. Simply put, these little things are "dropped" from a
pastry bag or from spoons and spatulas.
MOLDED COOKIES.
Hand-made cookies these are. Made from stiffer dough that's high in fat
and can be molded into pretty much any shape, from stars to animals.
Example: Snickerdoodles.
PRESSED COOKIES.
Made from very rich ingredients and can be shaped into various things.
Can be flattened or shaped with a press or tube. Cashew nut cookies
would be a great example.
REFRIGERATED COOKIES.
These treats are made by rolling up thin sheets of dough, wrapping them
up, and refrigerated. The cold rolled up dough is then sliced into
different shapes.
Shown here are Pinwheel cookies.
ROLLED COOKIES.
Characterized by a quite solid dough, crumbly baked texture and less
sweet taste, these are made by rolling out the mixture and finished with
a press or tubes. Your biscuits are the common variant.
(Credits to original photo owners where it applies. Credits to http://www.unileverfoodsolutions.co.th for partial content)
