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The pros: Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter Cheesecake Bites are frozen and a mix of cheese cake, Speculoos cookie crust and cookie butter on the top.
The cons: These have calories. Granted they are only 90 calories each, but odds are you might be popping a few of these into your mouth.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Petite Pumpkin Spice Cookies are a seasonal variety of Trader Joe’s Pinks and Whites.
The cons: This is a seasonal item, so when they are gone they are gone (perhaps forever, perhaps just for the season).
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Key Lime Pie is a really well done pie that can be defrosted and be a crowd pleaser. A really well-balanced pie for something that comes from a box in the freezer.
The cons: While this says six servings, this can comfortably feed four people.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Mango and Sticky Rice Spring Rolls are a completely different type of dessert. This product is not overly sweet.
The cons: If you are used to overly sweet desserts, then you might think of this as a palate cleanser. In fact, at my local TJ’s this is with the appetizers and not with the dessert products.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Sponge Candy is a very sweet, textural, and not in the sense that the name might have you believe.
The cons: If you’ve never tried this before, the texture might shock you and make you wonder why it’s called sponge candy at all.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Laceys Milk Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Cookies are sweet and crunchy cookies that will happily deal with any sweet tooth you might have.
The cons: 120 calories per cookie. Might be a bit too sweet for some.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Gone Bananas is an easy and relatively healthy dessert.
The cons: This is something that can be made at home using your favorite chocolate and some bananas.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Ts and Js Sour Gummies come in a resealable bag and are essentially Trader Joe’s answer to Sour Patch Kids. These are gluten free.
The cons: They aren’t an exact copy of Sour Patch kids, but are very addicting making the resealable bag almost unnecessary. These are shaped in the letters T and J which means they are probably more coated in the sour sugar (which might not be a bad thing).
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The pros: Trader Joe’s Apple Blossoms are basically frozen apple pies that are single serve and are tasty and satisfying. Perfect dessert and a really good one as we head into the fall season.
The cons: Calorie count. It’s a dessert and most of the calories here are coming from the pie crust. One of these blossoms is 50% of your saturated fat for the day.
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The pros: Trader Joe’s English Butter Fudge is a sweet candy confection that is actually made in England.
The cons: If you are into chocolate fudge, this might be a miss as the primary flavors are butter and sugar.
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