Break out the milk and celebrate.Pillsbury has launched a new line of cookies, "simply..." that are aimed at moms who want the convenience of refrigerated cookie dough without preservatives, trans fat and high fructose corn syrup.
The cookies, which are available in stores now and retail for $3.49, come in peanut butter and chocolate chip flavors and contain the same ingredients used to make cookies from scratch.
Pillsbury sent The Bee both flavors to try out.
The chocolate chip cookies had a generous amount of chips and the dough was flavored with just the right amount of vanilla. I'm a bit of a cookie puritan, so I wish unsalted butter would have been used instead of shortening. That said, these cookies, by far, beat other refrigerated cookie doughs in both flavor and texture.
I tested the peanut butter cookies out on a willing class of middle schoolers at an academic summer program at Sacramento State last week.
The response was pretty positive - and not just because it was the middle of the afternoon and they were looking for a snack.
Praise included that the cookies were "better than store-bought" and "smoother and softer" than other refrigerated doughs.Michael Wong, 14, said the cookies were "pretty good but I like my mom's better."
Sierra Savage, 14, loved the cookies.
"These are soft, moist and just delicious," she said.
For more information about the new Pillsbury line, go to the company's Web site.
