Subject #8: Soft Kings
I bought these Soft Kings “with real chocolate chunks” from the Kaubamaja grocery store. They’re manufactured in Greece and the package contains five individually wrapped cookies. Or should I say “Soft Kings”, since it doesn’t actually say “cookies” anywhere on the package. It does, however, say they’re “temptingly soft and delicious!” Well, we’ll see about that.
Stupid flash totally ruins it.
When I opened the wrapper, it smelled like a baked good. A mass-produced baked good, like the smell of those Chips Ahoy Soft Baked cookies (sorry, I know that comparison doesn’t speak to everyone). The cookies are large and fairly flat with a few nice cracks on top. The one I photographed was also adorned with unevenly spaced chocolate chips (but there were more chips inside). You can tell as soon as you pick it up that it’s soft and also a bit crumbly.
On my first bite, all I tasted was dried fig. Yes, I know that sounds weird, but I got a very distinctive dried-fruit sweetness, an almost fermented taste, and I grabbed the package to see if there were raisins in these cookies or something. Nope. I isolated a chocolate chip (which, as you can see from the next photo, were quite gooey even at room temperature) to see if that’s where the flavor was coming from. Not really– the chip was slick and oily-feeling and didn’t really taste like anything, including chocolate.
The cookie was indeed soft, but not in the dense, chewy kind of way that I enjoy. It was crumbly and light almost to the point of being cake-like. And it was boring. Other than the weird fig taste, it really didn’t have much else going on. No butter flavor at all. And since both the cookie and the chips were incredibly soft, there was no texture contrast of any kind.
The verdict? I think some people might enjoy these, but I won’t be getting them again.
Have you tried the Vertigo cookies that are sold in the Solaris grocery store? 60 kroons for a 5-pack, locally baked. I can’t say I’m as much of a connoisseur as you are, but I quite enjoyed them.
No, but thanks for the tip! If they’re from Vertigo (and carry that kind of price tag), they should be good. I’ll try to do a review soon
.
I tried these once also. The trouble with 5 items is that with 4 family members there is an argument over who gets the last cookie. I’m thinking of trying David’s recipe soon.