I went to the Pillsbury website to see it I could see the cooking instructions. The page for these cookies was limited, so I tried to see if there was another source. Interestingly, I found this: https://www.pillsbury.com/everyday-eats/desserts/cookies-bars/the-cookie-dough-hack-that-will-change-your-life To make sugar cookies softer you can place them closer together on the baking sheet, lower the oven temp, shorten the cooking time, or freeze the rolled and cut cookies before baking. (Do all of these at once and you will have little mounds of warm dough.) Finally, you can put them in an airtight container as soon as possible, being careful to wipe off any moisture from condensation. More on reddit.com

To make a homemade cookie, you need a handful of common ingredients. Butter, sugar, flour. You don't need preservatives because the cookies will be made and eaten within days. You don't need color agents because you don't care about consistency, or the way they look (to a degree, of course. No one wants a gray cookie) You're not worried about shelf life, or maintaining the texture and flavor inside of a plastic package filled with nitrogen gas. Once the cookies are made, you're not going to need to worried about temperature abuse (going from hot to cold to hot). So, all of these things, plus others such as flavor and sourcing, bring a unique-ish pre-packaged soft baked cookie to your grocery shelf. Food Scientists-more specifically grain and bakery scientists- have to use ingredients that you normally wouldn't find or use in your own home in order to deliver a consistent product that lasts for a decent amount of time. These ingredients preserve flavor, texture, color, etc. but, they also impart their own flavor, even if it is barely noticeable. And a lot of the time they don't have a taste but they kind of do have a taste, almost bitter if you taste enough at once, but if you take and combine a few of these in very small amounts, you CAN get an off-flavor that is kind of bitter. The scientists hope you don't notice by adding a shit ton of sugar, but we can tell.... More on reddit.com

Pillsbury cookie dough is meant for chewy sugar cookies, maybe rolled in granulated sugar. It’s not meant for cutouts, they’re a different kind of dough entirely. More on reddit.com

I did notice something, but it didn't last as long for me, maybe 30 seconds or so. I had the pumpkin sugar cookies! I was excited by the prospect of eating them raw if I wanted to, too! More on reddit.com