Snack Review: Dare Maple Leaf Creme Cookies
Maple! It’s not just for breakfast anymore.
I like chocolate and vanilla and fruit flavors as much as the next guy, but is that all there is? Sometimes it seems that way.
But how about maple. Those fiendishly clever Canadians. Why didn’t we think of that? I am always despairing that America is losing the international race for deliciousness to other countries. And partly it is that those other countries have wonderful flavors like green tea, black sesame, coconut… that we don’t use enough of.
I know, it’s not reasonable to expect, say, green tea flavored Twinkies. But, maple. I used to live in Massachusetts, I know we make maple in this country. What’s our excuse?
Well, until we catch up in the cookie-flavor arms race, if you see these, give them a try. They are not crazy sweet like eating maple syrup, but mild and nicely fragrant. You won’t eat many packaged cookies that smell this good. The texture of the cookie is good, not too hard, just crumbly enough. They are good dunked or not. They are also pretty, in the shape of maple leaves with nicely embossed veins. All terribly civilized, in the best possible way.
I admit that after I eat a few, I want to scrape the filling out and just eat the cookie. But that’s normal for me. I know there are people who eat the filling out of Oreos, for example, but what I do is scrape it out with a knife, throw it away, and eat just the cookies. So it shouldn’t reflect badly on the cream filling of these that I don’t want to eat it all.
I don’t know how widely available these are. I have had these cookies only once before, a couple of years ago. I found them at a local independent supermarket that often has odd products that no one else has. I liked them, I ate them, I forgot about them.
I have mentioned elsewhere that I may have psychic snack powers. I think I had one of those useless premonitions again. A couple of weeks ago I thought of these cookies for no particular reason. That weekend, I went to a tea shop I only go to once or twice a year, and (cue the X-Files music) there they were!
Anyway, psychically-foreseen or not, the places that carry these may be few and far between, but keep an eye out. They are tasty, a nice change of pace, and you can amuse yourself with the package, wondering why the heck the French word for maple is ‘erable.’
Buy Dare Cookies Online:
- at Amazon.com
12 Comments
Linda on October 23rd, 2008
Ooo, what a terrible idea, to add maple to a Coffee Crisp. It makes me
wonder if it’s one of those Canadian Content laws, like every company
has to have a certain percentage of maple-flavored products whether
they are good or not!
cybele on October 23rd, 2008
I love these cookies. I wish they sold them in the US (though I do find them sometimes).
Linda on October 24th, 2008
I found more yesterday. Don’t give up hope!
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polly on May 25th, 2009
the store Fresh Market has Dare cookies. I go to the one in Naples fl and buy them weekly
Linda on May 25th, 2009
I just saw a cookie at Trader Joe’s that looks the same as these, and inexplicably I did not buy them. Someone else needs to go and not be so dumb and report back!
cindylou77 on September 4th, 2009
I love these cookies. I look forward to fall every year so I can buy them. They are always available at Wegmans.
Mary on October 16th, 2009
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Oliveyou on November 4th, 2009
I found them at Winco and Raley’s here in Northern California. They remind me of maple donuts…mmmmmm. Best cookies ever.
Rose on October 22nd, 2008
In Canada we get lots of maple flavor- such as limited edition Oh Henry, Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp etc. None of which are particularly tasty. Not true for the Dare cookies though… Delicious. I used to live in the US, and NEVER saw them there (although in the South). I used to have Canadian friends mail them to me.