Crave Cookies review #7 - The Crookie and Coconut Macadamia Cookie

Crave Cookies review #7: The Crookie and Coconut Macadamia Cookie - visited January 16, 2025

I discovered a couple of weeks ago that my local Crave is a test location for the national chain - woot! As in the days past of Crumbl, a test location is just that: they introduce a new flavor first and test out whether it works or not, presumably not just how well the public will like it but also how easily (or not) the employees can make it and keep it in stock.

Crumbl seems to have done away with test cookies (too bad!) so I was glad to see Crave had it and that my location was a tester store. I was even more glad to try out this test flavor, the Crookie. As the cutesy name implies, it's a combination of a croissant and a cookie.

The monthly cookie

The other cookies of the week

Almost got this one too but The Crookie won out

Always a pass on anything with marshmallow

The Crookie

When I first saw The Crookie in the store, I was underwhelmed by it. It looked just like their regular milk chocolate chip cookie baked on top of a croissant. That didn't seem like a true integration like a cronut is. But I made the impulse buy, especially since I had a $5 reward to put towards it.

And it turns out I was really, really glad I did. Against all odds, I liked The Crookie. You can see from the picture that the croissant is cut lengthwise in half. I guessed correctly that they had "stuffed" more cookie inside the croissant. I got it warm from the store but by the time I got home, had a salad starter for lunch then some protein, the Crookie was at room temperature. No matter, I popped it into the oven for a few minutes to warm it up slightly before I tried the taste test bite.

O, M and Gee. This was amazing. I don't usually eat croissants since I know how much butter is loaded into them (that's what makes them so good and flaky) and the milk chocolate chip cookie is buttery enough. But this was so good. Definitely a super indulgence, sometime-food but worth the indulgence. The cookie on top is baked but the inside stuffing seemed more like cookie dough. Again, a surprise that I liked it since I'm not a big cookie dough fan. But if you're going to indulge, don't half-ass it. Put your whole ass into it. This was almost, though not quite, like eating a pain au chocolat with a cookie on top. I don't advise eating it all in one day but I made it last 2 days and several double workouts. Worth it. As was the $1 surcharge on this one.

I had actually gone to Crave to get the Coconut Macadamia as that's one of my favorite flavor combinations. Since I'd had the Crookie first, I waited on the Coconut Macadamia. By comparison, it seemed just "okay". 

Coconut Macadamia

I thought I would like it better since it had all the hallmarks of what I like in Crave cookies. Not just the flavor combination but also the thickness and texture. 

But for some reason, this hit just the okay mark for me. It was more sweet than I would've liked. I would've attributed that to the coconut but there didn't seem to be a lot of coconut in this one. Either that or it was the dessiccated coconut that comes in bits rather than strings of sweetened flaked coconut. Instead, the sweetness seemed to come from the sugar and because the cookie wasn't fully baked, there was a grittiness that comes from sugar not fully dissolving into the cookie during baking. 

I wouldn't call this a failure as I liked it well enough but if I had to suggest an improvement, it would be to use the sweetened flaked coconut for better texture and to cut back on the sugar.