Welcome to day 6 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza!

Today I sampled Pepperidge Farm Limited Edition Pumpkin Cheesecake Soft Dessert Cookies:

The ingredient list confirms that there is pumpkin in these cookies somewhere.  Cheesecake is dubious.

And here’s the cookies:

When Pepperidge Farm describes these as “soft,” they aren’t kidding.  These cake-like confections are so soft that they practically fall apart in your hand, almost as if the Houston humidity got to them before I did.   I don’t know what possessed them to call the white chips “cheesecake” — they don’t taste like any cheesecake I’ve ever had.  A more appropriate name for these cookies would have been Fall Apart Pumpkin Cookies with White Chips.  They didn’t taste bad — not too sweet — and  thankfully didn’t have any artificial pumpkin spice flavoring.  On  the other hand, you won’t have to lock the cookie jar to keep your family from polishing them off.

Rating:  3 pumpkins (out of 5)