'Best Cookies Ever': You Can Snag This Fan-Favorite Aldi Treat For Less Than 5 Bucks

One fact you can take to the bank is that Aldi knows its cookies. The discount grocer offers some of the best kitchen sink cookies we've enjoyed, and that's to say nothing of its craveable Girl Scouts cookie dupes that carry us through the long summer and autumn with no genuine Tagalongs or Thin Mints in sight. Come to find out, Aldi has also been quietly excelling in the arena of break-and-bake cookie dough. Its Specially Selected cookie dough, which comes a dozen cookies to a pack, is absolutely divine, if social media site Reddit is to be believed.

"I love these," one Redditor gushed. "Cooked at 10min leave to rest and chewy sweet heaven presents." Another commenter in the same thread agreed, and added quite the endorsement: "Puts toll house to shame." "These are pretty darn good!" enthused a satisfied buyer elsewhere on Reddit. "I like these cookies [for] yummy fresh baked cookies at home," cooed another on the thread.

Anecdotal comments on Reddit imply that Aldi has different flavors of these cookie dough packages that may rotate seasonally and include chocolate chunk, almond brittle, and apple cinnamon. As of this writing, only sea salt caramel chocolate chunk, retailing for around $4.39, is known to be available. We've discussed using chocolate bars versus chocolate chips in cookies, and it seems Aldi got that memo — the cookies feature generous bites of not just chocolate but gooey caramel as well. Don't feel like you are missing out on anything, though, because the chocolate-caramel cookies got plenty of love on Reddit!

First of all, let us start by saying that conventional wisdom advises that you not eat raw cookie dough, whether homemade or packaged. Cookie dough contains both raw eggs and raw flour, and there's a non-zero chance of contracting food poisoning from these uncooked ingredients. So we would never tell you to keep a package of these dough chunks in your fridge and to break one off when you need a sugar rush ... but, keeping it 100, we might be guilty of having done it ourselves.

Joking aside, there's also the practical matter that, with cookie dough already portioned into chunks, fresh cookies are never more than a few minutes in the oven (or the air fryer, which you can use to bake cookies!) away. You need not make all 12 at once, either. Bake up three or four for your kids' after-school snack or toss a half-package in the oven when you have unexpected company and want to serve something with coffee.

If you have a box of brownie mix and a package of this cookie dough, you are also most of the way towards baking up delectable brookies. Just prepare the brownie batter per the box instructions, smooth it into a pan, and dot the top with chunks of cookie dough. It's the simplest, tastiest dessert, and you probably already have the ingredients on hand. We're definitely picking up some cookie dough next time we're at Aldi, but don't worry ... we'll leave a few packages behind for you!