REVIEW: Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

For a second, I thought about copying and pasting the regular Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups review we did in 2010 to complete this review, because everything I said in that review would apply to these new Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Doing that would’ve been an extremely lazy and reprehensible thing to do, even though I’ve done it before. Of course, a lazier and reprehensibler thing I could’ve done was make this review consist of nothing but a link to the old review.

But you deserve better than that and these Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups deserve better than that because they’re quite tasty.

Although the packaging says they’re made with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, they don’t taste like they were made with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. The peanut butter center of the iconic candy has such a distinct flavor that it should easily stand out in these cookies, but instead it’s a nondescript peanut butter flavor.

The cookies not only contain mini peanut butter cups, but also peanut butter flavored chips. They even contain something a bit scary called Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Drops, but none of them have that familiar Reese’s peanut butter flavor. While that’s extremely disappointing, the peanut butter in these cookies do complement the chocolate well.

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The Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are wonderfully chewy with a good balance of chocolate and peanut butter. Basically, they’re forkin’ delicious. The cookies are on the smallish side, but they’re packed with chocolate chips, peanut butter flavored chips, and tiny peanut butter cups. Actually, that’s not quite correct. While every cookie I pulled out and stuffed into my mouth had peanut butter and chocolate chips, some of them didn’t have any peanut butter cups. However, that really didn’t make them taste different from the others.

Even though they lack the unique flavor of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and they’re made using partially hydrogenated oil, it’s hard not to chain eat through a package of these Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Have you ever seen a double rainbow? It’s extremely beautiful. Seeing two colorful arcs in the sky with a chance to get two pots of gold is exhilarating.

These Chewy Chips Ahoy Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are like a double rainbow, except the second rainbow is a bit faded and you can barely make it out in the sky. It’s still awesome, but not as awesome as it could’ve been.

(Nutrition Facts – 2 cookies – 140 calories, 60 calories from fat, 6 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat*, 0.5 grams of polyunsaturated fat, 2 grams of monounsaturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 100 milligrams of sodium, 40 milligrams of potassium, 19 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 11 grams of sugar, and 2 grams of protein.)

*made with partially hydrogenated oil

Item: Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Price: $3.79 (on sale)
Size: 9.5 ounces
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 8 out of 10
Pros: Forkin’ tasty. Addictive. Like a double rainbow, except with one rainbow a little faded. Lots of chocolate and peanut butter chips. Chasing double rainbows to get two pots of gold.
Cons: Doesn’t taste like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Peanut butter cups aren’t in every cookie. Made with partially hydrogenated oil. Could’ve been awesome. Smallish.

12 thoughts to “REVIEW: Nabisco Chewy Chips Ahoy! Made With Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups”

  1. odd that they have less fat than the original version. They sound good, I could see putting them away becoming an issue.

  2. Wherever you’ll see a Nabisco Chips Ahoy/Oreo product review I’ll be close by. I’m glad it’s finally out, but I wasn’t too optimistic of this being anything special giving Nabisco’s track-run of limited edition Chips Ahoy/Oreo products. But I’m not complaining either. In my case just about any new Chips Ahoy/Oreo product I’ve come by in the recent years have been a good thing. So cheers to yet another Nabisco product I’m excited in trying!

  3. The chewy Reese’s Chips Ahoy! are certainly much better than the original crunchy/crumbly (ick) ones. better, good, but not great. however I will admit to chain eating through an entire package.

    c’mon, they’re TINY. it was an honest mistake. 😉

  4. I love these but sometimes there are gross hard bits that I have to spit out because I can’t chew them. Anyone else notice this?

  5. Accidentally bought these at the store because I thought they were the regular ones. I am a huge fan of the regular ones but, as Jenham said, the chewy ships ahoy cookies have disturbing hard pieces and they are even more noticeable when dipped in cold milk. Also, the texture is almost waxy and distracts from the peanut butter/chocolate flavor. Not even an issue of soft/hard preference, just a matter of execution. The regular ones are WAY better. I probably won’t even finish this box of chewy because they are so gross. :'(

  6. I did impulsively buy them when I saw the picture of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups which are my favorite candy. I was very disappointed. They did not taste like the peanut butter cups at all. I couldn’t even taste any peanut butter flavor. I would not buy again.

    1. How do they NOT taste like peanut butter? Are you kidding me Anne? They are full-on peanut butter and delicious

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