Last-Minute Valentine's Day Cookies: Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets Review

For a last-minute Valentine's Day treat, consider the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets. These Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets for Valentine's Day offer the convenience of pre-made dough with the fun of making your own cut-out cookies. The Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets are a great last-minute ideas for making Valentine's Day cookies.

Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough

Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough in the refrigerated section can usually be found in a tube. Normally the plastic wrapping would be cut off and the dough could be sliced. It was also possible to roll the dough out into sheets to make cut out cookies.

This is a very sweet and tasty sugar cookie recipe. The tube packaging did not serve the cookies justice because they begged to be done right: as cookies.

Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough also comes in sheets with pre-cut out hearts. This product makes it easy to open the package, peel away the excess dough. Then you can peel the cookies of the backing and put them on a pan to bake. This method is the quickest way, but you lose the fun part of cutting out the cookies. That's where the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets come in.

What You Get Inside

Currently the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets are available for Valentine's Day. They sugar cookie dough comes in two pre-floured and perfectly flat and even sheets. Anyone who bakes sugar cookies knows that consistent thickness is important to baking cookies.

Inside the Valentine's Day cookie package you will also find two frosting packets: one white and one dark pink.

Taste of the Last Minute Valentine's Day Cookies

The Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets are just as tasty as other Pillsbury sugar cookies. If you add any flour, the cookies might become hard and crumbly because these cookies have more flour already than the standard recipe.

The frosting is on the overly-sweet side and should be used for decoration, not to frost the entire cookie.

Convenience of the Last Minute Valentine's Day Cookies

Within minutes of opening the package you and your family can be making cookies. Pull the dough out, separate the sheets and cut out heart shapes. If you have sprinkles or extra colored red sugar leftover from Christmas you can use that to decorate the cookies before they go into the oven.

Baked at 350 degrees these cookies take only eight to ten minutes too bake.

There will be left-over dough after you cut out your cookies. You can collect the dough and roll it out flat and make more cut out cookies. Or you can roll the extra dough into ropes and turn them into heart shapes.

Versatility of the Last Minute Valentine's Day Cookies

What's nice about the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets is that you can make any type of cookie shapes that you want. They can be used to make other fun seasonal shapes as well.

Nutrition of the Last Minute Valentine's Day Cookies

These last-minute Valentine's Day cookies are break-your-diet tasty. They need to enjoyed in moderation. Share them, give them away. Keep one or two for yourself. One serving (which Pillsbury estimates as two cookies with frosting) is 160 calories, 8 grams of fat (2 grams of saturated fat, 2.5 grams of trans fat), 120 mg of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates (12 grams of sugar).

There is very little nutritious value in these last-minute Valentine's Day cookies, which is to be expected. With the two cookies you will get 4 percent of the Percent Daily Value of iron and one gram of protein. The rest of the standards vitamin markers are all big fat zeroes.

Drawback of the Last Minute Valentine's Day Cookies

You do need to use your own heart cookie cutter or buy one. The Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets do not come with a cookie cutter.

Also, if the dough is not handled gently it can crack.

Overall, I recommend the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough Sheets as an easy way to enjoy making cut-out cookies without having to make the dough.