Black & White Cookie Flavor Oreos: A review

The other week I heard about a new limited edition Oreo flavor: Black & White Cookie. I got excited. I also got worried. There was no way these would be good, in the sense of “really like a Black & White.” But what would they end up being like?

Well first of all, let’s discuss Black & White Cookies. If you don’t know them they are, generally, big cookies, like 5-6 inches in diameter, with a cookie that is domed on the bottom and flat on the top. The cookie itself is sort of, kinda, like a Madeline but not as rich or moist? They’re soft, and crumbly inside.

The top is half and half two icings: One side chocolate, fairly thick. The other side is white and this is where you might think they would be vanilla flavored. You would be wrong. They are just sugar flavored. Because it is just basically sugar. It is also a hard-ish shell of icing.

The white icing is not crunchy, but it is hard and cracks at the top. Then it becomes a softer, icing texture as you eat it since it is just sugar and sugar melts with moisture.

They aren’t great, but they’re great, if that makes sense. They’re very much their own specific cookie.

Also keep in mind there are variations, including the half moon cookie with just has slightly different texture icing, really. A version where the cookie is essentially angel food cake, and one where the cookie is flat, but the icing top is domed.

But the standard is the domed bottom one I described above.

So how does that fair in an Oreo?

Well.

They used a “golden Oreo” cookie for the thing, which makes more sense I guess than the normal chocolate Oreo cookie. But see, it is still an Oreo cookie. So it’s hard, instead of soft. I feel like their first big mistake was in not using those strange “cakesters” they do because that would have at least gotten closer to the texture of the actual cookie. But whatever.

As you can see, the “stuf,” (God I hate they have their own spelling for this crap) is half black and half white. Ok. Cool. Well the dark half is in fact chocolate. It’s just chocolate stuf flavored. Which is funky.

The white half is not quite just normal stuf. The taste is maybe 10 degrees off center. Nor is it the taste of the white half of a Black & White.

What you end up with is an Oreo that just tastes off in several directions at once.

I am not saying they’re bad. They aren’t. Well, not any worse than any other Oreo cookie you might have. They’re just strange. Not necessarily in a bad way, or a good way.

Also who are these even for? Maybe this is just me and my lived life, but I don’t find that many folks outside of the tri-state area who even know what a Black & White is off hand, or who like them. Why do a limited edition cookie just for them?

But then: I get the confusion and curiosity factor will be the sales, but no one will like them or think they got them right, so they should hope there are enough of that first wave to clear the stock out.

Frankly, if I walked into a diner back east and held one of these out and claimed it was “inspired by a Black & White” I would expect to get slapped.

But the question was: Are they at all like a Black & White and I gotta say not in the least. Not even the slimmest of way, outside of the filling being two-colored. That’s it. That’s as far as it goes.

They went to all the trouble of doing this to go exactly one, teeny, step toward their goal.

So there you have it. I spent my money so you don’t have to. But you weren’t going to, anyway. Which leaves me unsure as to why I did any of this. I don’t have answers. I just have strange Oreos in my kitchen now.

Such is life.