Trader Joes Cookies & Crème Pretzel Slims

Like many great food inventions, the ‘cookies and cream’ flavor has uncertain origins. While we may not know exactly who first had the idea to blend ice cream with crushed-up chocolate sandwich cookies, there’s one thing we can safely assume—that person was a genius! And since the late 1970s, this cookies-and-cream concept has been applied to cakes, milkshakes, candy bars, and even trail mixes. Now Trader Joe’s has added another shining star to the cookies-and-cream universe: Cookies & Crème Pretzel Slims.

The base for these treats is Trader Joe’s Pretzel Slims with their thin, crisp, salty character. Each Pretzel is dunked in a creamy confectionary coating that includes notes of natural vanilla flavor, and crushed bits of Trader Joe’s Chocolate Vanilla Bean Cream Joe-Joe’s cookies. That would be enough—but we couldn’t help but add a final flourish of chocolatey drizzle.

Are Trader Joe’s Cookies & Crème Pretzel Slims worthy of their ingenius heritage? Perhaps you might weigh in. Just swing by your Neighborhood Trader Joe’s, buy a package... and proceed to taste!

Ingredients:

• WHITE CONFECTIONARY COATING (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL OIL, NONFAT MILK POWDER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, WHEY POWDER, PALM OIL, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR)
• PRETZEL SLIMS (UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, SALT, MALTED BARLEY EXTRACT, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE [PROCESSING AID])
• JOE-JOE'S COOKIE BITS (UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF BAKING SODA, AMMONIUM BICARBONATE, INVERT SUGAR, SEA SALT, SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER], NATURAL FLAVORS, COCOA POWDER, COFFEE POWDER)
• DARK CHOCOLATEY DRIZZLE (SUGAR, PALM KERNEL AND PALM OIL, COCOA POWDER, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, WHEY POWDER, SOY LECITHIN [EMULSIFIER], NATURAL VANILLA FLAVOR)
  
  

• CONTAINS MILK, SOY, WHEAT.
• MAY CONTAIN EGG, PEANUT, ALMOND, CASHEW, COCONUT, PECAN.