Trader Joe’s Decorate Your Own Holiday Ornaments Cookie Kit
Included eight based cookies, icing, and candy sprinkles.
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Included eight based cookies, icing, and candy sprinkles.
Ann Ampersand –
From What’s Good at Trader Joe’s 2022
“$7.99 for eight cookies.
There are three tubes of icing: red, white, and green. The colors aren’t particularly vibrant. They’re rather drab for holiday red and green. I suppose we can chalk that up to Trader Joe’s using natural stuff for colors like vegetable juice, paprika, beet powder, turmeric, and spirulina extract instead of typical man-made dyes. That’s fine. It’s a trade-off.
There are two of each cookie shape: gift box, Christmas tree, snowman, and snowflake. And there are two little packets of candy decorations, one with tiny snowflakes, candy canes, gingerbread men, trees, and balls of various colors. They also give you shiny golden twist ties to hang the ornaments from your Christmas tree.
They taste like the most boring sugar cookies ever. They’re only moderately sweet, and they taste and feel like they were meant to be decorative. The candy sprinkles and icings aren’t much better. I honestly wouldn’t buy this as a food item. I guess kids might like ’em, but I can’t imagine many adults being enamored by the taste and texture of these things. A full cookie contains 300 calories, and that’s not even close to worth it by my estimation—especially around the holidays when there are so many super tasty foods available.
But I gotta admit, they’re cute. Feel free to critique our handiwork in the comments below. I’m sure your kids made much nicer cookies than we did. We’re a little out of practice at decorating edible Christmas ornaments.”