Erin Baker's Original Breakfast Cookie in Peanut Butter: A Review

I was shopping for groceries a few weeks ago when I came across Erin Baker's Original Breakfast Cookies, they cost $1.50 each so I picked up a cookie in the Banana Walnut and the Chocolate Chunk Raisin flavors. I liked them both, so when I went back to the grocery I decided to try the Erin Baker Breakfast Cookie in the Peanut Butter flavor.

The Peanut Butter cookie comes in an orange wrapper. It contains whole grain oats, unbleached wheat flour, prune puree, natural peanut butter, organic evaporated cane juice, water, brown rice syrup, expeller pressed canola oil, dry roasted unsalted peanuts, chicory extract, molasses, natural peanut butter flavor, baking soda, sea salt, pure vanilla extract, soy lecithin, dried egg whites, aluminum free baking powder, and cinnamon.

One 3oz Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookie contains 330 calories, 100 of which are fat calories. It contains 11g of total fat, 1.5g of saturated fat, and 0g of trans fat. This Erin Baker cookie also has 0mg of cholesterol and 360 mg of sodium. And it has 49g of carbohydrates, 6g of fiber, 16g of sugar, and 8g of protein.

I'd never tried an oatmeal cookie that had been blended with peanut butter before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. After biting into it though, I found it the results to be so-so.

The cookie itself is super soft and chewy (you can toast them if you want them firmer), I liked that the Peanut Butter flavor is a lot less sweet than the other two flavors I'd tried. It had a nuttier and heartier flavor that I wouldn't mind eating for breakfast.

I also didn't think that the peanut butter and oatmeal made for a bad combination, the two flavors worked well for me. But I just didn't care for the type of peanut butter the Erin Baker company used in this breakfast cookie. It tasted like it was unsweetened.

Normally I like unsweetened peanut butter, but just not in a cookie. It just had too strong of a presence, the roasted peanut flavor overwhelmed all of the other flavors in this cookie. If the peanut butter had been just a tad bit sweeter, it would've tasted more like other peanut butter flavored cookies, and I think I would've enjoyed it more.

I also wasn't too fond of the four finely chopped peanut pieces that were scattered randomly throughout my cookie. It just seemed like they were thrown in as an afterthought, because there wasn't enough of them added to provide much flavor or texture, so it just seemed pointless that they were added.

In the End...

I won't be buying anymore of the Peanut Butter flavored Erin Baker Breakfast Cookies. Although it wasn't horrible, it just wasn't my thing. I give it 3 out of 5 stars.