These Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos are making me thirsty

If there’s one thing Snackology is going to deliver on, it’s Oreo content. Nabisco is going to keep releasing new flavors, and I’m going to keep forking over my money to try them.

Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreo cookies are the FIFTH new Oreo release that I’ve covered in 2025, and they represent new ground for the iconic cookie. For the first time ever, we have an Oreo cookie that’s “topped with a sprinkling of salt.”

I love a chocolate-covered pretzel. Who doesn’t? When I worked at CVS back in college, a bag of Flipz was a single-serve snack during my shift. I could house those suckers.

As an Oreo aficionado, would Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos live up to the standards set by those bags of Flipz?

Where I found it

Target’s website came through for me on these.

What I paid

A 10.68 oz. package of Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos set me back $5.59.

My thoughts

When Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos were first announced, I was thrilled to learn that this variety of the cookie was going to feature a pretzel-flavored cookie that was actually topped with salt. One of my wishes for February’s Post Malone Oreos release was that those cookies — which boasted a salted caramel swirl creme — had actual salt flakes on them.

Nabisco was listening to my suggestions and did just that with Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos. You can even see some of the tiny bits of salt on the exterior of the cookies.

But I may have flown too close to the sun with this request. It’s one thing to think that an Oreo cookie should have salt on it. It’s another thing to bite into a salty Oreo.

After a lifetime of eating Oreo cookies — regardless of the flavor — my brain immediately flagged one that was purposely salty as being wrong. Oreos are supposed to be sweet, my brain protested. What’s wrong with this one?

Well, you have a good point there, brain. I don’t know if this is actually a good idea.

The interior of the Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreo is basic chocolate creme. There’s nothing unique or special about it, nothing mixed in for texture or additional flavor.

Beyond the added saltiness, Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos fail because the ratio of (imitation) pretzel to chocolate is revered. When eating a chocolate-covered pretzel, you first taste chocolate. You then bite through that chocolate and hit the crunchy and salty pretzel it’s hiding. These Oreos have that backwards. You get salt, then crunch pretzel-flavored Oreo and then chocolate.

The hue of these Oreos threw me off too. The pretzel-flavored cookies look almost burnt, especially when compared to the Oreo Golden Birthday Cake cookies and the S’mOreo cookies.

Final verdict: SKIP

Chocolate Covered Pretzel Oreos are a bold innovation, with Nabisco actually adding salt to the cookie ... but their cookie scientists got things backwards and delivered a pretzel-covered chocolate-creme cookie instead of a chocolate-covered pretzel.