# Pillsbury SHAPE Cookies **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillsbury-shape-cookies/216542 "2003-12-02T18:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekow2kn3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@ekow2kn3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekow2kn3)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillsbury-shape-cookies/216542/1 "2003-12-02T18:30:18Z")
Does anybody know how they get the shapes in the pillsbury cookies? The official website lists “Doughboy magic” as the cause, but i’m pretty sure its something more than that… ---
**Author:** ![Flash-57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/839c29/32.png) [@Flash-57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flash-57)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillsbury-shape-cookies/216542/2 "2003-12-02T21:41:45Z")
The same way they get the stripes in toothpaste. See, [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_173.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_173.html) There is one or more hollow tubes inside the cookie dough dispenser that squirt out colored dough at the same rate as uncolored dough. There are lots of products that are created like that, for example, those pretzels with cheese inside. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pillsbury-shape-cookies/216542/3 "2003-12-02T23:11:48Z")
As long as the question has been answered, I must add some turth based comedy (TMI) Don’t eat too many of those black bat ones for Halloween - they go in black but come out bright green!