{"id":4744,"date":"2024-12-02T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snarklesauce.com\/blog\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:31:04","slug":"aldi-holiday-cookie-assortment-benton-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarklesauce.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/02\/aldi-holiday-cookie-assortment-benton-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldi Holiday Cookie Assortment (Benton) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Author\u2019s Note: The following review is my own silly opinion. I don\u2019t work for Aldi<\/a>. Nobody paid me to write this. I have no affiliation with either Benton brand or Aldi.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has potential. Sort of.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what I expected from this bag of assorted holiday cookies from Aldi. But, let’s talk about what I got. (Keep reading to hear what I thought of the ingredients, overall.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To show you what I actually received in my bag, I dumped it all out and took a picture. Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s kind of a mad jumble. A lot of broken cookies and crumbs. Cookie dust embedded on the surface of the chocolate coated cookies. The chocolate had smeared off the coated cookies and rubbed onto everything else. A hot mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, aren’t we all<\/em> this time of year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A hot mess, even when it’s cold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of the chocolate, it was very noticeably melty. I have written before about melty chocolate, blaming it on how warm my house is here in balmy Florida. However, it’s a chilly 72 degrees currently (so cold, I’m wearing socks<\/em>! Floridians know how serious this is!), and the chocolate is still so melty<\/em>, it is wiping off onto everything the cookies touch. Some of the cookies were melted together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, this is way beyond<\/em> normal melty. Super melty. Epic melty. Galactic melty. That’s what we’re working with here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of variety<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There’s an impressive assortment of cookie types. In fact, I counted more than a dozen different<\/em> cookie shapes\/types in my bag (other bags might have more, because I didn’t have some of the ones pictured on the front, like the checkered cookies or pinwheels). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t expecting this, and I looove<\/em> variety, so this made me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was also pleased to find cookies with berry-jam-flavored centers. I thought this holiday assortment contained only chocolate-and-vanilla type flavors, so I was delighted to discover fruity stuff, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I divided the cookies into five basic categories, although there are a number<\/em> of different shapes within each category:<\/p>\n\n\n\n