OREO Cookie Club Subscription Box Review – May 2018

OREO Cookie Club is a subscription box that delivers two deliciously different OREO experiences – sometimes a new flavor, sometimes a familiar favorite – with fun OREO swag and a delicious recipe.

My Subscription Addiction paid for this box. (Check out the review process post to learn more about how we review boxes.)

About OREO Cookie Club

The Subscription Box: OREO Cookie Club

The Cost: $59.97 for 3 months, 119.94 for 6 months, 239.88 for 12 months. Free shipping.

The Products:  “An OREO Gift Box that contains two OREO flavors, a one-of-a-kind OREO inspired gift, and recipe card, all in an artistically designed OREO gifting box. MSRP [value] of $24.99 per box”

Ships to: U.S.

OREO Cookie Club May 2018 Review

If you've been to a Target, Walmart, or similar store this month, you may have noticed end caps full of the following flavors that are part of the "My OREO Creation Contest" that is happening. Like the potato chip companies before them, OREO thought it'd be a good idea for the common person to create a new OREO flavor, and they've narrowed it down to three. You can vote for the one you think is best here.

OREO Cookie Club has sent all three of the horrifying contestants this month to encourage us to get involved. Let's dive in, shall we?

Coupon for a Free OREO Chocolate Candy Bar, 1.44 oz - Retail Value: Up to $0.99 (but like, c'mon)

Once again, they've sent a coupon instead of just mailing me a chocolate bar. A reader pointed out that coupons prevent said chocolate bar potentially melting during transit, so I will take that into consideration. I'll pop this in my wallet and hope I remember to cash it in the next time I'm at a store that carries them.

Oreo Thins in Pina Colada, 10.1 oz. - Retail Value $2.99

This flavor comes in the form of the OREO "Thins" which is just how it sounds. The sandwich cookies are thinner and lighter than the average OREO with a seemingly thinner layer of cream inside. I enjoy tropical cocktails, and I like both pineapple and coconut, but this cookie just tastes like perfume to me. It gave me a slight headache with its sweetness and the artificial flavor seems very apparent to me. Next!

Oreo Cookies in Kettle Corn, 10.7 oz. - Retail Value $2.99

Kettle Corn is probably one of my least favorite snacks on the planet, so I was not looking forward to trying these. I know, I sound like a total hater this month, but these flavors are just... ugh. I noticed that the package states that there are "puffed millet pieces" in the cream, so that should add an interesting texture. These OREOs are of normal size, although I think I read a review on Amazon that points out that all of these limited edition flavors seem to be closer to the "double stuff" OREO size. There is quite a bit of cream in there! As soon as I opened the package, I was slapped across the face with a sugary-sweet smell. These actually do not taste as bad as I was envisioning, but boy oh boy are they SWEET. I couldn't really notice the puffed millet with all the cookie parts mixed in while chewing, but if you're one of the people that licks the cream off, you'd probably have a unique experience. If you gave me one of these and said it was caramel corn flavored, I'd probably believe you, but I think that may be due to my inexperience with kettle corn.

Oreo Cookies in Cherry Cola, 10.7 oz. - Retail Value $2.99

Ok. I am preparing myself for this one. The filling is half regular white cream and half red cream that has "popping candy" in it and welp, they nailed the flavor. These certainly taste a lot like cherry cola! The fizziness of the candy didn't really show up for me until the cookie was almost gone but it slowly lingered on the back of my tongue. I have to hand it to them- I would never have thought to add that layer of cola-ness to a cookie. This is probably my favorite one of the three, but I still find it completely unnecessary. Haters are going to indeed hate, I guess.

Before you scroll down to the "swag" item, take a guess at what it is as you view it.

A toothpick to get those stubborn OREO bits out of your teeth?

A "cream scraper" for those who like to separate it from the cookie?

OREO Cookie Dunker

A dunker! At least, that's what we are gathering. Since the OREO Cookie Club doesn't come with an info card, and this promo swag came in an unmarked plastic bag, we had fun guessing what it was until Lacey definitively said it was a dunker because she had seen them before. For those OREO eaters who love to dunk their cookies in milk but don't want to risk getting milk on their fingers (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), the dunker is here for you. I was surprised at how snuggly it sat there. I thought it'd be rather precarious, but it was a perfect fit and I had no worry that it'd fall off.

OREO Cookie Dunk Cups

Lastly, they always included a recipe that you can make with the included OREOs. I never really count this as an item, but they send it none-the-less and it also provided a clue as to what the swag item was. Here, they've told us how to crush up OREOs to make little cups that you can add milk to and dunk whole cookies into. Of course, you'll need butter, milk chocolate, and milk for this too. 😉

Well, what do you think?

Verdict:  OREO Cookie Club Subscription Box is quite a head-scratcher. The cost is $19.99 per box, but you have to purchase a minimum of a 3-month subscription for $59.97. Since we received three full-size packages that total $8.97, you'd have to imagine that the dunker (and recipe) are worth $10.03 even IF you count the coupon having a value of $0.99, simply to break even. As always, this seems pretty farfetched since it's ridiculously easy to acquire these flavors at a big box store or even online. The value simply isn't there unless you are SO into OREOs that you NEED to have the swag that is only available in this box.