Peanut flour in Pillsbury Ready to Bake cookies

Thank you very much for the heads up!!!!
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Synthia

My wife and I just recently caught the fact that the Ready to Bake Sugar Cookies now have peanut flour. I am amazed we caught it - sugar cookies have always been a relatively safe product (since there seems to be no conceivable reason to add peanuts to them).
I am sending off a letter to Pillsbury (although I doubt one letter will do anything).
This strikes me as a rather dangerous situation. Sugar cookies like these are often baked by other people, so there is often no chance to check the label, they are a product often given to children, and one which (until now) there was no real reason to be suspicious of. (As a child, I would always select sugar cookies at bake sales over cookies that carried a risk of peanuts or peanut butter).

I don't know how long this situation has existed, but it has been at least a few years....I remember we came across this 2?? years ago....
It's one of the examples we use to educate the school about potential hidden dangers...

I've just spoken to Pillsbury about the roll sugar cookies, ie the ones that aren't pre-formed into cookies, but just come as dough in a roll. They say that those are peanut-free and not made in the same factory (that the roll ones are made in a nut-free factory). The rep I talked to was very helpful and assured me about how careful Pillsbury is re. allergens. Anyway, just wanted to add this to the thread because when I first read it, I assumed the rolls were "contaminated" also, but after checking, apparently they are not, so I'm glad to still have that product to fall back on.
Janet

I do as well, but this is the reason I don't allow my DD to eat any baked goods. I don't trust people to pay attention to labels.
Quote:Originally posted by JND:
[b]I've just spoken to Pillsbury about the roll sugar cookies, ie the ones that aren't pre-formed into cookies, but just come as dough in a roll. They say that those are peanut-free and not made in the same factory (that the roll ones are made in a nut-free factory). The rep I talked to was very helpful and assured me about how careful Pillsbury is re. allergens. Anyway, just wanted to add this to the thread because when I first read it, I assumed the rolls were "contaminated" also, but after checking, apparently they are not, so I'm glad to still have that product to fall back on.
Janet[/b]

I am a little confused. The break apart kind are the ones with the peanut four, and the slice and bake log type are ok?
I am freaked out by this news, as I checked some in the store last week and nothing was listed, so I told a mom in our preschool class that she could bring them to the Halloween party. I am making some for my son to take and eat, but I don't even want them in the room with him if they have peanut flour.

Thanks!

I think the Pillsbury break apart cookies have always been unsafe.
A.J. does fine with the roll sugar and chocolate chip as well as the the themed cookies. Just yesterday we made the pumpkin ones.
At least we have some safe options from them unlike the Nestle brand which is always unsafe. I am in the U.S.
Jaime

Just to make it more confusing....The Ready to Bake cookies by Pillsbury DO have peanut flour in them. However, the HOLIDAY versions (Halloween they had pumpkins on them, Xmas they had snowmen on them last year, Easter they came out with Bunnies onthem), etc.. do NOT have peanut flour in them.
So the rolls are safe and though I have not called on it, the label differences between the regular REady to Bake and the Holiday Ready to Bake means the latter are safe. I do trust Pillsbury and their allergen awareness so we've used the Holiday versions without problem.