Snacks- Pepperidge Farm Milano Melts

I'm going to tell you right now that I immediately began salivating when I laid my eyes upon these glorious-looking cookies.  I mean, I know the chocolate is never really as creamy or the cookie as flawlessly textured as they are in the picture on the bag.  But sometimes in the throes of confectionary passion I forget just for a moment about the magic of advertising and believe that what I'm looking at really may be the door to an alternate dimension, containing only the most supernaturally delicious of foods for my enjoyment. 

Before you call mental health services to come take me away let me assure you that this is only a momentary imagining...but that moment was more than enough time for me to decide I needed these cookies. 

There are two other varieties of these, one with a chocolate cookie and one with regular chocolate creme as opposed to the classic dark chocolate.  I chose the one I assumed would taste just like the regular Milano so I'd be able to do a better comparison, although I will be giving the double chocolate ones a try in the future for sure.

They pretty much look and taste like a regular Milano; the cookie is the same texture which has always been a bit too for my taste.  There is definitely more chocolate presence and flavor in these. The fact that there's enough chocolate to be able to let it coat the front of my tongue and taste the bittersweet deliciousness is a huge plus for these cookies.  I was imagining that the creme wouldn't actually be bursting from the cookie when I broke it apart like it is on the front of the package, but as you can see minus the photoshopping used on the packaging the real thing looks remarkably similar. 

My only real complaint about these cookies involves my own very personal taste, but I'll throw it out there anyway.  While I'm crazy about the abundance of chocolate in melts, I found that I still longed for the slight crispiness you get from the hardened chocolate in the original Milano.  It's almost undetectable, but when I bite into a good old sandwich-style Milano, right before I start grumbling about the crumbling, I savor that satisfying little snap as the layer of chocolate breaks.  It's the chocolate the supports the feeble cookie, whereas the melts give more power to the cookie by forming it into a shelter for softer, more vulnerable chocolate. 

Overall I'm surprised to say that though these are delicious, I'm not positive whether I'd pick them over regular Milano's.  I guess it'll depend on which one I feel like seeing in charge. 

5 stars.