Pillsbury's Best Ready-To-Bake Cookie Dough Flavor Proves Nothing Outshines The Classics

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When you're craving cookies late at night or want to drastically cut down on prep time, ready-to-bake cookie dough is a lifesaver, and Pillsbury is one of the best to do it. But which of its cookie dough flavors is best? You can keep it simple with the Sugar Cookie flavor or go indulgent with Snickers Cookie Dough. In our ranking of 5 Pillsbury ready-to-bake cookie dough flavors, our taste tester singled out the classic choice: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

"I like the simplicity," explains our taste tester, adding that the cookies "taste way better than any pre-baked store-bought variety you could ever get your hands on." Beyond the quality and convenience, our taste tester also loved how well they bake. "Bake them correctly, and you'll get a delightfully crisp crust followed by a soft and pillowy (but still moist) center." They also appreciated the generous amount of chocolate chips found in every bite and the "touch of saltiness" that balances the sweetness.

While other flavors like the candy-filled Monster Cookie Dough or the Snickers Cookie Dough followed closely behind in our ranking, the classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough came out on top as an all-around flavor that can be baked as is or elevated with a variety of mix-ins. Indeed, shoppers have found plenty of other uses for Pillsbury's cookie dough, from using it as a base for fruit pizza, tarts, and cheesecakes to making ice cream sandwiches and cookie dough brownies.

We aren't the only ones who love this cookie dough. On Target's website, for example, Pillsbury's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough has nearly 4,900 reviews and an average rating of 4.6 stars. One 5-star reviewer called this "the perfect cookie dough," adding that they are "so happy they are dairy-free unlike Toll House." Another Target reviewer stated that "once you've eaten these, you will no longer eat bagged cookies again! Not even Chips Ahoy!" 

Plenty of shoppers also love the nostalgia associated with these cookies, with some saying they've been eating them for decades. However, not everyone was happy when Pillsbury changed the formula, with longtime customers saying they preferred the previous taste and texture. Other reviewers welcomed changes like using real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup and removing artificial preservatives, and still loved the cookies' taste and texture.

One of the best parts about the product is that you can eat it raw. Ever since Pillsbury started using heat-treated flour and pasteurized eggs back in 2020, the dough has been safe to eat without baking. "I bought a pack and wound up finishing the whole package raw in a week," shared one Reddit user, who usually just nibbles at the dough before baking the remainder. "Throw some of that package into vanilla ice cream and you have some super thick chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream," suggests another Reddit commenter.