Flavors Tried: Milk & Cookies, and Chocolate Candy Ganache
Price: $3.50 Per Cookie
Nutrition: 280 Calories, 12g Fat, 29g Carbs (0g Fiber & 24g Sugar), 15g Protein
My Cookie Dealer is known for indulgent, over-the-top, stuffed cookies, and their original “protein cookies” are no exception.
I always took issue with their “protein cookies:, because they contain 700 calories with only 20 grams of protein… that is not a protein cookie. That’s a massive, indulgent cookie that just happens to have a little bit of extra protein added to it.
Maybe they recognized that, as they now offer snack-sized protein cookies that I came across at Vitamin Shoppe. These are a much more reasonable 280–300 calories with 15–17g of protein. Still not the most impressive macros, especially with 24g of sugar and 0g of fiber, but definitely more manageable than their full-size options.
With a thick cookie, sweet cream filling, and high sugar content, you’d expect these to taste great. I should learn by now not to get my hopes up, but all of those factors should lead to a decent cookie.
I tried two flavors, Milk & Cookies and Chocolate Candy Ganache, to see if they could pass as a halfway decent protein cookie.
Flavor Review: Chocolate Candy Ganache
If you go into this one expecting rich, gooey chocolate flavor, prepare to be disappointed.
The first thing I noticed is that the main ingredient in this cookie is protein powder, and it tastes like it. The texture is what you’d expect from most protein cookies: soft but dense, and very chewy. It doesn’t eat anything like a fresh-baked cookie, and it has that spongy consistency we’ve seen time and time again from other protein cookies.
There is a chocolate ganache filling in the center, and when you do get a bite with some of it, things improve. The ganache is actually solid- it’s real chocolate and brings in a nice rich texture.
But the problem is that there just isn’t enough of it. You get a small blob in the center, and once that’s gone, you’re back to eating a chewy, overly sweet cookie that tastes like protein powder.
They also call this flavor “chocolate candy” but those were barely noticeable. There were maybe four of them in the entire cookie.
Visually, it looks exciting, but in reality, it’s underwhelming. Without the ganache in a bite, there just really isn’t anything redeeming about the cookie.
Flavor Review: Milk & Cookies
Same story here, just in a different flavor.
This one is also packed with sugar and flavored with cream filling to mimic an Oreo. The cream itself isn’t bad and actually does a decent job resembling Oreo-style cream
The cream filling helps improve the flavor when you get a bite of it, but just like the other flavor, you don’t get much of it.
Like the ganache version, the cream filling is dead center and only takes up about 25% of the cookie. So, most bites are just a dry, bland cookie.
It’s weirdly both too sweet and lacking in flavor at the same time. The base cookie on its own is dry, chewy, and has that unmistakable protein aftertaste that kills any excitement.
Honestly, the texture and flavor reminded me of most other protein cookies out there. For something with higher sugar and calories, you’d expect something a bit more elevated, but these don’t deliver on that promise.
Final Thoughts: My Cookie Dealer Protein Cookies
These cookies look great on paper: gooey filling, higher calories and sugar, made by a company that specializes in indulgent cookies… With all of that in mind, I expected something closer to a treat that just happened to include some protein.
Unfortunately, these fall incredibly short of those expectations.
The texture is dry and chewy, the flavor is overpowered by protein powder, and the “filling” is barely present in most bites. For a cookie with 24g of sugar and only 15g of protein, I expected it to at least taste like a real cookie. Instead, I got a protein-heavy, overly sweet snack that I couldn’t even finish.
And that’s the real sticking point here, because at $3.50 per cookie, they’re asking a lot. If they nailed the flavor, I might overlook the price and macros. But when the end result is something I didn’t even want to finish, that’s an easy pass for me.
There are plenty of other cookies out there that strike a better balance between taste and nutrition. No protein cookie has blown me away (yet), but there are servicable options out there like Highkey & Quest.
Unfortunately, My Cookie Dealer’s snack-sized protein cookies just aren’t worth it.
