Nabisco Oreo: Peanut butter creme

Product name: Nabisco Oreo: Peanut butter creme
Purchase details: £4.00 for a 432g pack (Bold Street Sweets)
Calories: 70 per biscuit
Country of origin: Canada 

One of these days, I’ll review a Nabisco product that doesn’t contain peanut butter...but you’ll just have to wait a bit longer!

Despite not having reviewed them yet, I’m a massive Oreo fan, and I’ve wanted to try the Peanut butter creme version for a long time but have always been put off by the high import prices. Thankfully, though, I was able to buy these for half the normal cost of £7.99 when Bold Street Sweets had a half price day for their Facebook fans.

These ‘chocolate sandwich cookies’ came in a large, blue resealable pack containing a giant picture of an Oreo (with fake-looking creme!), and a brown and white colour scheme to represent peanut butter and milk (the drink these biscuits are famous for being dunked in). Since I knew it would take me a long time to get through all the biscuits in this pack, I didn’t dare risk relying on the sealing mechanism alone, so I can’t comment on whether or not it does the job. 

The pack also had a recipe on the back for a Peanut Butter Creme Oreo Milkshake – this looked like a nice idea but I have to confess that I haven’t given it a go (partly due to it using American measurements).  

The biscuits were made by Kraft Foods and contained sugar as their main ingredient. A serving was classed as two cookies and, with around 14 servings per pack, I worked out that it should contain 28 biscuits in total (although I didn’t open it right up to double-check!). 

Hopefully your life is fulfilled in that you know what a standard Oreo looks like. These cookies had the same dark, patterned appearance, but the creme was a pale orangey-yellow as opposed to white. As a result, the creme didn’t look as fresh, but it was still nice and thick. 

The peanut butter scent was instantly noticeable on opening the packet but this wasn’t quite as good in quality as an actual jar of peanut butter. However, the creme was actually quite like peanut butter in texture – it even had a slight crunchiness when eaten on its own but I think this was down to stray crumbs! 

The biscuits were really crunchy and chocolatey and provided the usual, rich Oreo taste, along with a slight nuttiness from being in contact with the creme. The latter was more sugary than actual peanut butter and it had a slightly bitter edge to it but it was still very pleasant. The two components went very nicely together, which is what I’d expect from chocolate and peanut butter, and the creme provided a great moisture which prevented the cookies feeling too dry.

To sum up: these were fantastic! 

Appearance: 8/10
Aroma: 7/10
Taste: 8/10
Texture: 8.5/10
Overall score: 7.88/10

Nabisco Nutter Butter: Creme patties

Product name: Nabisco Nutter Butter: Creme patties
Purchase details: £7.99 for a 297g pack (A Quarter of Sweets)
Calories: 170 per five patties serving (34 per patty)
Country of origin: Canada 

When A Quarter of Sweets posted these Nabisco Nutter Butter: Creme patties on their Twitter page as a new item of stock, I just knew I had to have them. I wouldn’t normally spend so much on a single product just to indulge myself but I was kindly provided with a discount which made my decision a lot easier! Knowing how good the original Nutter Butter cookies are, though, and the large pack size (it contained about nine 32g servings), it wouldn’t have been a big issue for me anyway.

‘Distributed by Kraft Foods’, these ‘crispy wafers with peanut butter creme’ came in a large red pack with an enlarged image of a couple of patties on the front. They looked quite basic in appearance but I was pleased to see that the real peanut butter layer looked quite thick.

I certainly wasn’t expecting what greeted me inside the wrapper – a plastic tray containing three long sheets that each contained 16 patties that could easily (but not particularly neatly!) be broken apart.

Slightly less surprisingly, but much to my delight, I was also hit with an instant mouth-watering peanut butter smell which was particularly nutty. Rather randomly, the aroma wasn’t quite as appealing up-close, as the wafer had a scent that reminded me of the white end of fountain pen eraser pens! 

The wafer was very pale in appearance and had a smooth, raised top and a standard criss-cross wafer base. The peanut butter was a slightly darker shade of brown and had a smooth, moist-looking texture. I couldn’t wait to try a piece! 

The first aspect of the taste I noticed was the wafer itself which was actually very flavourful. The peanut butter then came through and they blended very well together with a slightly sweet overall taste. The flavour wasn’t dissimilar to Mrs. Freshley's Buddy Bars: Peanut butter wafers, but these patties weren’t quite as sweet, and also didn’t have the slightly redundant cocoa layer.

The wafers provided a very crispy centre and the moist peanut butter centre was just wonderful. I would say that each patty was more dry than moist as the peanut butter wasn’t quite as thick as I’d hoped, but the balance of the textures worked well, regardless.

This is definitely a product for fellow peanut butter lovers! 

Appearance: 7/10
Aroma: 7.5/10
Taste: 8/10
Texture: 7.5/10
Overall score: 7.5/10

Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy original

Product name: Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy original
Purchase details: £1.99 for a pack of two cookies (A Quarter of Sweets)
Calories: 150 per cookie (300 per pack)
Country of origin: Canada

When I bought my packet of Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy chocolate, I hadn’t seen this original variety, but I couldn’t resist giving them a try too when I spotted them in A Quarter of Sweets soon after my last review. One of the reasons I’d been slightly disappointed the first time around was that the chocolate flavour was far stronger than the peanut butter one so I really hoped that the latter would be more apparent in this product.

Looking at the packaging, I’m not surprised this variety originally passed me by – it was identical to the chocolate version, just with a different coloured cookie as the product image. To be fair, the actual concept was also exactly the same, with the only difference being the use of a plain biscuit rather than a chocolate one.

These cookies appeared to contain more chocolate chips than Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and I found they looked more appealing than the chocolate ones due to the lighter colour scheme. They gave off a slight peanut butter smell but the main aroma was something a bit darker – almost like syrup but not as nice.

The cookies felt soft to the touch and they broke very gently and, on sampling them, the soft texture continued, although they also had a slight chew to them. They were moist and, once again, the Peanut Butter Cups provided a slight crunch.

The general taste experience this product provided was a sweet one and the biscuits seemed to have a knack of hitting tastebuds all over the tongue. Unfortunately, though, I still found that the peanut butter flavour wasn’t overly strong, although it did provide a salty kick at the end of each mouthful. Whilst chocolate was still a feature in these original cookies, they didn’t provide a very chocolatey flavour. However, in this instance, I found this to be preferable.

I can’t say that these Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy original cookies were a massive improvement on their chocolate equivalent, but they would be my preferred choice in future. I still think they could do with a chewier texture, and stronger peanut butter flavour, though! 

Appearance: 8/10
Aroma: 6.5/10
Taste: 7.5/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7.25/10

Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy chocolate

Product name: Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy chocolate
Purchase details: £1.99 for a pack of two cookies (A Quarter of Sweets)
Calories: 150 per cookie (300 per pack)
Country of origin: Canada 

I was very excited when I discovered on Facebook that A Quarter of Sweets had received a delivery of cookies that contained Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Even the fact that each cookie practically cost £1.00 (stoopid imported prices) didn’t deter me from buying a packet!

When I got my hands on these Nabisco Chips Ahoy!: Big & chewy chocolate, I was pleased that the wrapper’s photograph suggested the cookies were ‘proper’ ones – I do love home-baked chewy biscuits and this is the experience I hoped for. The Peanut Butter Cups were an added bonus!

Each cookie was dark in colour and flecked with ‘peanut butter flavoured chips’, as well as a couple of miniature Cups. Slightly disappointingly, they had an odd smell about them which I found to be similar to the Oreo baked goods I’ve bought from American stores in the past.

The cookies themselves were soft to cut through and I found their texture to be more like cake than cookies, although they did have a slight crust on top. To be fair, they were slightly chewy, but this wasn’t quite in the same way I’d hoped for based on my experiences of other cookies, like the ones from Subway, for example. The chips and Cups were a bit more fun to chew on, though, and they also provided flavourful bursts of peanut butter. The Peanut Butter Cups were, obviously, the standard Reese’s kind, but the fact they had been baked meant they had slightly crispy chocolatey shells.

The overwhelming experience these cookies provided was a really chocolatey one since this flavour was far more powerful than the peanut butter. Interestingly, the peanut butter chips had the same texture as chocolate ones so, with the strong chocolate tastes, it was easy to forget that these were actually peanut butter flavoured.

I did feel a little let down by these Big & chewy chocolate cookies since, texturally, they weren’t as I expected. Whilst I think I may have had unrealistic hopes that these would taste more homemade, I think they would have been nicer if they’d been a little less soft and a little more chewy. Furthermore, it would have been great if they’d had a stronger and more consistent peanut butter flavour. Despite these areas for improvement, though, I did think this was a nice product. 

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 6.5/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7/10