Phase Two: Pre-cut Dough
Nestle and Pillsbury each also offer a flat package of chocolate chip cookie dough that's already rolled out and measured for you, saving the extra steps of guestimating what a "teaspoonful" is and rolling it into a ball.
Here's what each brand's ready-made dough looks like right out of the package:
There's a stark difference between the two.
Nestle's dough had a darker brown appearance, and a lot more visible chocolate chips. The dough was almost packaged more compactly and in squares.
Pillsbury's dough was a lot more pale, with fewer chips and a larger cardboard container. The dough was separated more and had rounded edges.
We chose NOT to manually roll the pre-cut chunks into smooth balls, since the point of this type is that it require fewer steps, right?
The Nestle cubes broke off relatively easily, though a few times the squares would come apart unevely. Pillsbury's rounded rectangles were much easier to pull apart.
We placed the pre-cut dough into a 350° oven and set the timer for another 11 minutes.