Great Lakes Pot Pies

Great Lakes Pot Pies is mostly a pot pie company.  They are located in Michigan, but also ship nationwide (frozen pies).  They make savory pies in various sizes and fillings, breakfast pies, sweet pies, and also hand pies.  But I tried none of those things (although I gladly would, many sound great!).  I was drawn to their snack foods business, where they sell a fairly unique product: pie chips.

Pie chips are available as a savory option (everything seasoning) or sweet (cinnamon sugar).  I tried the later.  They recommend as a snack right out of the (resealable) pouch, sprinkled on ice cream, or any other creative uses you can come up with.

Cinnamon Sugar Pie Chips.

"Irresistibly crunchy pie chips with sweet cinnamon sugar goodness. The crisp cookies come with a flaky buttery crust and are covered in cinnamon sugar."

"Savor buttery, flaky cookies crafted from our famous pie crust—each crisp bite of the cinnamon chips is reminiscent of the delight of freshly baked pie."

I wanted to love these.  I didn't love these.  I simply liked them.  

Which is to say, they were fine.  Absolutely fine.  But I wanted more from them.

They were very buttery and seemed to be made from high quality pie crust.  I liked that there were smaller nibble broken bits and bigger squares.  They did, indeed, taste like pie crust.  

But for a standalone snack, I wanted more from the cinnamon sugar element.  They were coated on just one side, and the cinnamon and sugar were both fairly muted.  I wanted more, more, more.

As an ice cream topping, pudding topping, or even just with fresh berries and whipped cream they were a nice component, but as a standalone snack, they weren't quite enough flavor for me.  Low 3/5.