In the video, a person wearing gloves is seen using a cookie cutter to cut out shapes from a piece of chocolate dough. The dough is placed on a wooden board, and the person presses the cookie cutter into the dough to create a circular shape. The person repeats this process several times, creating multiple circular shapes from the dough. The video focuses on the action of cutting and the resulting shapes, with no other objects or people visible in the frame.