Mars – Cookie Dough

I don’t know if anyone else has this issue, but when I burn out on something, it’s very hard for me to come back and try to reignite that passion for it. In particular, when I overdo snacks or drinks, it’s very difficult for me to ever see it the same way again. Mars is one of those things, where I had way too much of it as a kid to the point that I ignore or avoid it. I tried really hard to go against that instinct to try and give today’s product a try. Only time will tell if that will hinder me or not.

The standard Mars bar is a combination of caramel and nougat, covered in chocolate. A classic combination to say the least, and now they decided to branch out into cookie dough. I’m not one of those people who was super big on cookie dough, but I do like to indulge in cookie dough ice cream once in a while. I do realize cookie dough is pretty popular, given that at some point companies decided to make it edible even in it’s raw form. Apparently people were just eating raw cookie dough even when it was unsafe to do so. That’s how you know people like something. The craziest thing I used to consume before it was cooked was instant noodles…

Flavour wise this is pretty much what I remember of Mars bars – it’s definitely on the sweeter side, and it certainly doesn’t help when you think about the caramel. The caramel is creamy but also sweet, and the nougat is mostly just slightly sweet, and I don’t really get any cookie dough flavour to it. It definitely brings me back to a simpler time though, one where I would enjoy Mars bars regularly and with reckless abandon. Alas, long past those days am I, and truthfully I don’t enjoy these as much as I would have if I were a few decades younger.

The texture is really the main reason to get a Mars bar – the chocolate on the outside is typical milk chocolate shell, but the inside is the combination of a gooey, chewy caramel on the top, layered over a soft chewy nougat. The general theme here is chewiness – the caramel is quite generous, and slightly flowy, and the nougat is quite soft as well. Now would be a good time to note that the bar is cookie dough flavoured, not cookie dough filling. That might disappoint some people, as I’m sure nougat and cookie dough are very different textures. This is a tad too airy to be confused for cookie dough.

I can’t say I am surprised at all with my experience here, but I do know that this is too sweet for my liking. I don’t know if I’ve just gotten older, if they have just started covering everything with more sugar, or it’s some combination of the two. What I will say is if you are looking for cookie dough, you might as well just get the regular bar since that’s basically what this tasted like to me.