M&S Vegan Salted Caramel Cookie Dough Review

 

I was in the chilled isle in M&S looking for some egg replacement but ended up finding this salted caramel cookie dough packet! 

It's vegan, gluten free and had quite a long use by date on considering it's chilled. I was intrigued and had to give them a go! It was £3 for 6 cookies.

Contents: the box, a tray with 6 cookie dough circles covered in film

All that was inside the box was a plastic tray with 6 cookie dough balls inside. The good news is it's pretty simple to make: simply pop the circles of dough into the oven for 12 minutes and you get cookies! They also freeze so you could always freeze them and bake one or two for freshly baked cookies.

The bad news is it feels like there's so much unnecessary plastic. Packaging is unavoidable as it needs to be sanitary but maybe using a plastic alternative or even recycled plastic would be a start? (If I'm wrong and it already is, sorry!)

I baked them for about 14 minutes (2-4 minutes longer than suggested) and they came out perfectly cooked. I left them to cool for a bit on the tray before moving them to a cooling rack so they didn't fall apart!

I tried one while they were still warm. They're soft like non-vegan cookies but a bit gritty as they're gluten free so they have large pieces of oats in them. The caramel was both salty and sweet in the best way and was really nice. They didn't quite spread while cooking like I expected so there's quite a difference to the box image (as always!)

Not quite like the picture on the box but still good!

Overall rating: ☆☆☆

These aren't bad and I would say they are worth it if you are gluten free and / or can't tolerate soya lethicins often found in vegan chocolate cookies. However, with M&S doing their own chocolate chip vegan cookie in their bakery that is much nicer, and other supermarkets doing multi packs that are, in my opinion, nicer and cheaper, this kit doesn't quite hit the mark. However, it as a nice novelty and I think if I was to buy it again I would freeze it to make a fresh cookie when I fancied it rather than cooking them all in one go!