Before our last trip, I had a co-worker mention to me she loved a cookie at Hollywood Studios, and I should try it as the resident Disney expert at the veterinary hospital. Naturally, I had to look it up. Lo and behold, I found not one but three cookies that people cited as their favorites at the park. Strictly for educational purposes, we decided to try all three and decide which cookie reigned supreme.
Cookie Number 1: Jack Jack Num Num Cookie ($5.79)
This cookie is found at the Marketplace near Pixar Plaza and the Pixar meet and greets. It is a mammoth warm chocolate chip cookie shaped like a pie. Easily split between both Banshees and both Busters, it was a good chocolate chip cookie. Honestly we all thought it tasted like a warm toll house cookie. The temperature outside was just short of an active volcano, so the warm factor was not a plus for us. I thought it was a good value for a snack to be shared amongst four of us. I could not have eaten more than a quarter of it. Little Banshee ate most of it, but she does love a good chocolate chip cookie!
Cookie Number 2: Carrot Cake Cookie ($4.99)
I remembered liking this one a lot years ago when it was found at Writer’s Block. I like carrot cake and really like cream cheese frosting. It is now located at the Trolley Car Café, which is in essence Starbucks. You find it prepackaged in the cold shelf. So my feelings on Starbucks aside [Spoiler: Banshee does NOT like Starbucks coffee], we happily purchased our cookie and dug in.
What a disappointment! The carrot cake was good, but the frosting was terrible! Instead of cream cheese fluffy goodness, it was a gummy, marshmallow consistency with no taste. Yuck! And honestly, it was not a cookie. It was a carrot cake, or at best a carrot cake whoopie pie. It could not be eaten by hand, so sharing was more problematic without multiple forks.
Cookie Number 3: Wookie Cookie ($6.29)
Found at the Backlot Express and available via mobile order, it is an oatmeal whoopie pie with vanilla frosting in middle and a chocolate bandolier on top. This one is as big as my head and sharable as well. It was the most expensive of the three. However, it was also by far my favorite. This one was good! Sweet, but not overly so. Can be torn apart and eaten by the entire family. Soft cookies, fluffy frosting. Reminded me of a supped up version of a Little Debbie Oatmeal Pie but in the best way.
The Verdict
My clear winner was the Wookie Cookie. Tasty, sharable, relatively neat, and a good value. I will say all were good value for sharing. But the Wookie Cookie is the only one I would get again. Little Buster liked the Carrot Cake Cookie. He doesn’t like frosting so perhaps that was a plus for him. Buster also felt the Wookie Cookie was best.
Of course, Little Banshee liked them all…
Bonus Cookie Tip!
If you are at Epcot, do yourself a favor and try the Snickerdoodle Sandwich Cookie ($6.99) at Karamel Kuche! You will not be disappointed!
Of course none come close to Gideon’s!!!
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