Review & Release Histories of Trader Joe’s Foods, Snacks, Treats, Cookies, and Candies

Opening them up, there’s a very light cinnamon smell, and biting in, it’s just that, but sweeter. It’s a moderately sweet cookie that engages in a sugary vanilla cinnamon flavor. The shape resembles an Oreo, but the cookie part feels more premium as it’s slightly thicker, still providing a crunch while being soft enough to appreciate.

The cream in the middle provides a lot of the sweetness as well as additional cinnamon flavoring. Overall, in a way, it reminds me of Cinnamon Toast Crunch or a churro in cookie form. It’s tasty, fulfilling, and feels like a good, sweet cinnamon cookie.

Released around February 2023. Found June 2025.

I’m not exactly sure what ube tastes like, but these are good! The shell is fairly generously poured onto this reasonably thick sandwich cookie, providing a good amount of sweetness and ube flavor. Under this is a soft and crunchy sandwich cookie with even more ube paste in the center. My only gripe is that when biting in, the cookie starts to fall apart and crack.

Overall, these absolutely feel premium and generous with the toppings, and I also like how they’re not super sweet nor not sweet enough. Basically, they’re perfectly balanced, falling slightly on the sweeter side.

Released around April 2024. Found June 2025.

I expected a tasty, sweet, traditional PB&J flavor with a light oat flavor, but this is the opposite. The filling is rather thin and unsweet and isn’t really all too noticeable. The oat shell, on the other hand, is prominent, featuring an organic-tasting oat flavor. It’s really disappointing; I expected so much more! At most, from the filling, I get an extremely light, fruity-ish taste with a complete absence of peanut butter.

The texture is soft and not at all crunchy or chewy like other oat bars. It’s simply easy to bite through, offering no feedback, resistance, and most of all, complexity. Basically, it’s boring and uninteresting.

I suppose you may like this if you’re into organic and earthy-tasting bars; otherwise, you’ll be disappointed.

While I can’t find an exact release date, mentions of this date back to July 2016. Found June 2025.

So darn buttery, wow! And not to mention, the cookie part tastes very premium, sporting a soft, very light crunch. It feels like an extremely soft biscuit combined with a delicate sugar cookie sandwiching a thin strip of brown goo. Unfortunately, that’s where the buttery goodness and goodness in general of the cookie end.

This goo, while supposed to be hazelnut, is almost entirely bland. Really, the entire cookie’s flavor comes from the cookie part: buttery, decently sweet, with a pleasant sugary coating. If anything, the hazelnut provides the lightest nudge of a soft-solid, almost gooey-ish contrasting texture, but that’s it. They really need to make the hazelnut stronger and add more. Still, in the end, it’s an absolutely premium-tasting buttery cookie.

Notably, there are a lot of other competing brands. Personally, I still find the Ferrero Nutella Biscuits to be far superior overall due to their bold Nutella flavor. However, the cookie part here of these feels better as it’s softer.

While I’m unsure of a release date, reviews date back to 2012. Found June 2025.

These are strongly flavored, and not necessarily in a good way.

It’s almond. Made of it and flavored of it—and that’s the issue! You get the authentic, nutty experience, and on top of it, a clearly artificial almondy taste as if they mixed their almonds with powerful almond extract. It’s just not my thing, and compared to other almond-based biscotti, this is a letdown. At the very least, the chocolate does nudge it in the right direction.

Of course, the texture is your standard biscotti: a bit hard, crunchy, and nutty. Personally, I’m also just not the biggest fan of this hard texture.

While I can’t find an exact release date, it has been around for several decades. Found June 2025.

All I can think of is “seasoned but plain at the same time.” The taste is extremely light, so light, in fact, I can’t really make out the flavors. Perhaps an essence of caramel and cinnamon? Maybe. Either way, something is there—it’s better than a flavorless cookie or biscuit, at least.

The composition is reasonably crunchy, reminding me of a thin, hard-ish cookie combined with an airy biscuit. I like it; it’s got a decent mouthfeel, doesn’t feel cheap, and would work well with a dip, frosting, or with your tea.

Overall, while the flavor may lack and the texture is decent enough, I don’t see myself eating these straight from the package. Simply put, it has to be paired with something; otherwise, it’s a boring experience.

While I can’t find an exact release date, they’ve been around for over a decade. Found June 2025.

If you want the shortened version, these are peanut-dipped Oreos.

The reasonably thick peanut shell is smooth and pretty soft, giving it a nice mouthfeel as you bite through and are met with a contrasting crunchy chocolate sandwich cookie. The inside cookie is more or less an Oreo, so the thing I want to focus this review on is the peanut portion.

I can’t stress this enough: the peanut shell is quite generous, as if the sandwich cookie itself was dipped several times. The downside (or upside, depending on your preference) is that it does taste diluted in a way. The peanut isn’t as strong as what you may think and is instead like a store-bought, sweetened peanut butter that was diluted to a noticeable extent. This peanut flavor also tastes different—not in a bad way, just not what you may be accustomed to in regular peanut butters—it feels like a different brand, basically.

As a peanut lover myself, these are great, although, as I mentioned, the peanut flavor, while good enough, could be bolder or sweeter to really give the cookie more oomph. From my experience with these, my favorite part was the differentiating textures and how thick the peanut exterior is.

Released April 2021. Found June 2025.

What’s similar about both of these is the smoothness and texture of the wafer. It feels less airy and has more of a hard, stiffer crunch compared to other filled wafers. It’s not off-putting or anything, just different. Additionally, while the filling is adequate, they could’ve added some more. This filling texture falls on the typical, soft-solid ganache-like side.

Lemon: A non-punchy, semi-sweet, and pleasant lemon fills the center. It’s refreshing, especially when paired with the wafer. Definitely inoffensive, a solid choice if you don’t want something strong.

Cocoa: A bold, premium, almost cocoa-tasting chocolate is in this one. It’s rich, although not bitter or unpleasant in any way. Instead, the moderate sweetness keeps it on track and an enjoyable treat. Definitely get these if you’re feeling a premium-tasting chocolate!

The Lemon flavor was released around June 2020, while mentions of the Cocoa flavor date back to a similar period. Found June 2025.

As advertised, these are very small baked cookies. Each one is unique, some shaded darker from baking than others, for example, and each one is fairly crunchy, but they don’t have rough textures. Overall, they are regular-tasting, semi-sweet, crunchy small chocolate chip cookies in the shape of ovals and balls. Nothing to really write home about.

Released sometime in August 2023. Found August 2023.