This is the CookieTime Cookie Bites Strawberries & Cream, a bite-sized cookie featuring strawberries (purée, 0.4%) and white chocolate.

The cookies presented in various circular sizes, ranging from 2.5–4 cm in diameter and up to 1 cm in height. The exterior appeared golden brown with visible dark red strawberry pieces and white chocolate chips. Aroma opened with sweet, cooked strawberry notes of moderate intensity.

Initial contact delivered immediate sweetness alongside a dry, dense and crunchy texture that established the cookie’s firm structure. Through the mid-palate, the white chocolate chips gradually melted, introducing a creamy richness that softened the otherwise dry crumb. The strawberry pieces also softened with warmth, developing a lightly gooey texture while contributing a jam-like cooked strawberry flavour rather than the brighter acidity of fresh fruit. Texture remained dense and crunchy throughout, with the melted inclusions providing intermittent pockets of softness rather than altering the overall structure.

Towards the finish, the cooked strawberry and white chocolate combined to evoke a familiar strawberries and cream profile, with the creamy sweetness lingering well after each bite. Aftertaste carried sweet strawberry preserve and milky white chocolate notes. While the intended flavour combination was successfully conveyed, a darker chocolate would have provided greater bitterness and contrast, tempering the sweetness of the cooked strawberry more effectively.

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Overall, a bite-sized cookie with a converging sweet flavour progression and a dense, crunchy structure softened by melting inclusions, resulting in a pleasant but decidedly sweet interpretation of strawberries and cream.

This CookieTime Cookie Bites Strawberries & Cream contained 250 g. It was produced in New Zealand and purchased in Auckland, New Zealand in 2026.