The Absolute Best Costco Snack Bars Are Cloaked In Chocolate

Costco, home of the $5 rotisserie chicken and absurdly-sized boxes of granola bars. Kirkland Signature offers a variety of snack bars — most featuring some form of chocolate — in packages containing anywhere from 20 to 120 bars. While it may be tempting to reach for that box with the most in it, quality over quantity comes into play here. Tasting Table's Megan Hageman tested and ranked 5 of the best snack bars at Costco and concluded that the absolute best is the Kirkland Signature Dipped & Chewy Granola Bars.

Where the other Costco bars have chocolate chips mixed into the oats, a bottom side coated in chocolate, a chocolate drizzle, or a chocolate-flavored protein powder base, the Dipped & Chewy bars feature a generous layer around the entire bar. More chocolate is never a bad thing, and the amount of it in the photo on the box is pretty enticing, but it's not just the chocolate that makes this bar rank higher than the others.

What's found inside that magical chocolate coating is just as delicious. These bars are made of super crunchy rice crisps and oats, which provide a satisfying contrast to the creamy chocolate. Like the name says, though, they are just as chewy as they are crunchy and creamy. This is thanks to the layer of caramel found between the rice crisp and oat base and the top layer of chocolate.

Caramel, chocolate, and a crunchy base — sound familiar? Yes, this bar might fool you into thinking you're eating a Snickers or a Twix. In fact, customers on Amazon and Costco praise the bar for being a poor man's candy bar and a great alternative to a real chocolate bar. As if you needed more convincing, these bars are also peanut-free and manufactured in a peanut-free facility. So those with peanut allergies can enjoy these just the same, which is not the case with some of Costco's other bars.

This bar is balanced in flavor and texture whereas others are too bland, too crunchy, too chewy, or too protein-powder-y. Like most things at Costco, it's also a great deal at $19.99 for 48 bars, which comes out to just $0.42/bar. It may not be the highest protein offering of the bunch, or the choice with the least amount of sugar, but it certainly is the most delicious.